Sentence examples for scholarly style from inspiring English sources
His glasses were in the Chinese scholarly style, jet black boldface O's resting on his nose.
Despite the 172 pages of the first edition, Kuhn – in his characteristic, old-world scholarly style – always referred to it as a mere "sketch".
The Dahesh Museum's scholarly style, from the start, has displayed telling affinities with contemporary theory-speak — as in a rote exposition of "France's self-constructed patriarchal, imperial, and cultural relationship with and appropriation of Egypt".
Its subject, "Historical Criticism among the Ancients" seemed ready-made for Wilde – with both his skill in composition and ancient learning – but he struggled to find his voice with the long, flat, scholarly style.
The mester de clerecía is characterized by its metrical regularity, diverse scholarly topics, narrative style, and didactic intent.
Scott's scholarly but accessible style manages to make this sweeping saga enthralling throughout, as he traces the stories of everyone from Hannibal to Confucius, debunking myths and cliches along the way.
His scholarly speeches and style of governing made him more of a man of the cloth or an academic, not a rapid-fire straight talker like his nemesis downstate in Gracie Mansion.
The scholarly and professional styles that earned you good grades and your way up the ladder won't win the hearts of readers of fiction or memoir.
J. H. Plumb, writing in The New York Review of Books, called it "a book of exceptional perception: scholarly, tender, full of style".
In the process, the scientists have gained a reputation for a self-confidence bordering on arrogance, and a style of scholarly debate so unapologetic and uncompromising that, as one observer put it, "They just make people mad".
McGrath's style is scholarly yet accessible and engaging, and he presents a convincing case for replacing the old "narrative of conflict", which he sees as ideologically driven, with a "narrative of enrichment" which allows us to "hold together the ideas of cosmic vastness and personal significance in a coherent whole".
