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Flirting with Maud, he wittily caps a Freud citation -- "On the other side of attraction lies repulsion" -- with, "Or was that Calvin Klein?" But even Roland's erudition is embedded in sardonic verbal patter that makes him seem flippant about his scholarly quest : "Imagine if I could prove that Mr. Perfect Husband actually had, like, this Shakespearian-type 'Dark Lady' thing going".
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Since the 18th century, three separate scholarly quests for the historical Jesus have taken place, each with distinct characteristics and based on different research criteria, which were often developed during the quest that applied them.
A better understanding of it may contribute to both scholarly and practical quests (Paquin and Howard-Grenville 2013) to gain 'an integrated understanding of the mechanisms for value creation and capture in the innovation ecosystem context' ((Ritala et al. 2013): p. 246).
I wish I were sure that a quest for scholarly purity lay behind the charges that have recently been raised against some name-brand writers.
The Juilliards emphasize contrapuntal complexity and inner voices, not from mere scholarly fastidiousness but in quest of the full range and depth of musical experience, substance, and emotion.
The Ancient Amber Routes: Travels from Riga to Byzantium by Mara Kalnins (Petergailis) charts the quest of an intrepid traveller, a dedicated and scholarly researcher into numerous fields, as she traces the origins and development of the trade in the much sought after treasure of amber.
In the 20th century, the quest for Tamar's grave became a subject of scholarly research as well as a focus of a broader public interest.
He wrote many scholarly and articulate books on architecture, aesthetics, and sociology, including Church Building (1901); The Gothic Quest (1907); The Ministry of Art (1914); The Substance of Gothic (1916); The Nemesis of Mediocrity (1918); My Life in Architecture (1936); and The End of Democracy (1937).
She endows him with valor, magnanimity, aristocratic lineage, a scholarly bent -- we sense an author a little in love with her hero -- and a questing spirit.
This quest to learn the fates of "six of the six million" is part memoir, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work. .
His continued scholarly reputation is demonstrated in the somewhat ludicrous tale of Rupert of Duetz, who, in 1117, set himself on a quest to challenge William of Champeaux and Anselm of Laon to intellectual combat (Clanchy 1997: 143).
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The phrase "scholarly quest" functions as a noun phrase , where "scholarly" modifies the noun "quest". It acts as a subject or object within a sentence, denoting a pursuit or undertaking of academic nature. As Ludwig AI indicates, the phrase is correct and usable in written English.
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