"scholarly passion" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe someone's strong interest and dedication to the pursuit of knowledge and academic learning. Example: Her scholarly passion for the history of literature led her to spend countless hours reading and analyzing classic novels and poems.
In these twin scholarly passions, Scholem showed indeed how right he was.
James McPherson describes the battle's contingencies, consequences and might-have-beens with scholarly brilliance and passion.___________________________________Winston Churchill.
THEORY and practice: this year's cookbooks get to the meat of the matter with a kind of passion and scholarly zeal that's rare in any season.
At the Kaplan, part of the Mostly Mozart Festival's candlelit series A Little Night Music, he brought a scholarly understanding and clear passion for the music to both his playing and his engaging commentary.
With rare exceptions, Chinese purchasing over the past decade has been a case of buying what is fashionable and expensive rather than collecting out of aesthetic passion and scholarly knowledge.
His interest in books was broad and scholarly, and his particular passion for Irish literature and poetry was the springboard for a number of Grolier Club exhibitions and other events, including the landmark exhibition, "To Set the Darkness Echoing," which he co-curated in 2002.
Aftel sells her fragrances with names such as Palimpsest and Lumiere at aftelier.com, and now in her new book, "Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent," she shares her passion and scholarly expertise with readers, describing her meticulous research into ancient resins and Renaissance recipes and her world travels to source ambergris, incense and rose oil.
Beside images of hungry, enslaved Navajos were comments such as "This boy has seen enough for one life" and rhetorical questions: "Can you imagine what this was like?" The victors are able to tone down their passions in scholarly tomes and Discovery Channel documentaries, but for the Navajo history is alive and affecting.
Though Dr. Nuland gets sidetracked by his passions for anything scholarly, these tangents make the book engaging on many fronts.
