Sentence examples for scholarly notions from inspiring English sources

The "Messiah" performances offered at Trinity Church by its resident forces on Sunday afternoon and at Avery Fisher Hall by the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday evening could hardly have been more different, though both were attentive (in varying degrees) to scholarly notions of Baroque performance style.

By the time we get to the end of the statement, it is patently clear that the donor's "intent" will trump even that quaint scholarly notion of objectivity.

There have been relatively few modern attempts to challenge this notion that the Historia Regum Britanniae is primarily Geoffrey's own work, with scholarly opinion often echoing William of Newburgh's late-12th-century comment that Geoffrey "made up" his narrative, perhaps through an "inordinate love of lying".

The notion that scholarly work might have its own intrigue and romance is very difficult for a novelist to illustrate.

Peters, who was not a historian, put forward a purportedly scholarly construction based on the notion, as Golda Meir famously put it, that there is "no such thing as a Palestinian people".

One professor of constitutional law, Wilson R. Huhn at the University of Akron School of Law in Ohio, said that recent scholarly research supported the Madisonian notion that direct democracy could sometimes crush the interests of a minority in society — in votes, for example, to ban same-sex marriage.

Halliwell (1986), Appendix 5 presents a succinct overview of the various scholarly approaches to Aristotle's notion of catharsis.

In North America, a substantial scholarly literature takes up the notion of modern motherhood as a contested cultural ideology, largely in the "unsettled" context of growing numbers of working mothers.

A number of recent scholarly studies have undermined the old notion that the epic is a central feature of all cultures, including oral cultures.

In particular, there is a need for future research and scholarly work in the area to challenge essentialist notions of ethnicity and to engage more critically with notions of ethnic 'difference', recognising instead the instability of 'ethnicity' as a fixed and discrete category, much like other social categories including those relating to age, gender and social class.

A newly published harvest of scholarly research suggests that many commonly held notions about the monument are only a part of the whole truth.