Sentence examples for scholarly hero from inspiring English sources

Edwin Reardon, its diffident and scholarly hero, has a freak success with a novel.

It is such killing — undertaken by an anxious grad-student type in the service of an obscure cause — that naturally preoccupies the film's scholarly hero, the Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon.

(The CW's recent Beauty and the Beast updated the 1987 series but replaced the scholarly, leonine hero with a handsome man with uncontrollable bursts of violent anger; these abusive undertones are the new beastliness. These days, Beauty is trapped in the Beast's S&M penthouse, and his understanding of consent is decidedly murky).

And none of them earn the lengthy scholarly analysis accorded the eponymous heroes of the canon.

Mommsen's fantastic energy and work ethic — he published more than fifteen hundred scholarly works — had made him a hero, not only among scholars but to the general public, a figure without real parallels today.

** Mommsen's fantastic energy and work ethic — he published more than fifteen hundred scholarly works — had made him a hero, not only among scholars but to the general public, a figure without real parallels today.

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It is wonderful to see a young hero who is so scholarly looking and filled with curiosity and who connects with very real emotions, from solemn intelligence and the delight of discovery to deep family longing," wrote Bob Graham of the San Francisco Chronicle.

PAGE A3 Stephen Ambrose Dies The prolific historian, who helped revive interest in World War II with a series of popular books, but recently had to defend his scholarly integrity, was 66. PAGE B7 Unlikely Hero for Angels Adam Kennedy, batting ninth, hit three home runs to lead the Angels into their first World Series.

Stanford is deserving of serious scholarly study, and perhaps even the sort of hero-worship usually reserved for national icons like Whitman.

Michael Kazim's terrific biography, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan, and several other scholarly works make the point that Bryan, like many religious conservatives, were not really opposed to the concept of Darwinism and evolution at the time it first came up in the late 19th century.