Sentence examples for scholarly obsession from inspiring English sources
(She is their third major scholarly obsession; three years ago they financed an exhibition and monograph about the cabinetmaker Charles Rohlfs, and they are now immersed in studies of the Philadelphia ironworker Samuel Yellin).
But the tendency of both principal characters to analyze their scholarly obsessions and their personal foibles in the same microscopic detail, contemplating every single "exponentially branching" possibility, eventually wears on the nerves.
And if and when that happens, it will be because literary criticism begins, once again, to contextualize its scholarly obsessions and also, as importantly, because of stellar, iconoclastic, multimedia literary-art productions like Michael Zapruder's poetry anthology-cum-musical album, Pink Thunder.
And while "I'm Not There" is immersed in Dylanology, it is more than a document of scholarly preoccupation or fan obsession.
So in his best-known -- and possibly best-realized -- work, "Flaubert's Parrot," Barnes created a riotous collage of episode and scholarly crumble out of the obsession of his narrator, Geoffrey Braithwaite, with the master.
He talks about his obsession with the area with a combination of messianic intensity and scholarly erudition.
The obsession with body counts came later, along with a steady accumulation of citations by recognized scholars: 377 published books and 183 scholarly articles to date.
Scholarly discoveries turned up.
Scholarly and fascinating.
"This real scholarly guy.
