He had nothing else to do that afternoon, so he slipped into the classroom just as Sharp was beginning to lecture.
—SENATOR JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS (D MISS ., in a lecture delivered at Columbia University, New York City, 1912.
Raise the question of Taiwan, of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea or of China's inglorious war with Vietnam in 1979, and you will be given another lecture, in a sharper tone of voice.
The soul of that scholarship can be gleaned from his Fordham lectures, which form a sharp analytical commentary on a lively decade within the church.
Hilbert's lecture and monograph inspired a sharp reaction from his contemporary Gottlob Frege, who found both Hilbert's understanding of axioms, and his approach to consistency and independence demonstrations, virtually incomprehensible and at any rate seriously flawed.
In his sharp suit and snazzy tie, McNair offers a lecture on the history of money, explaining that it is just a belief system, much like stories about Father Christmas or fairies.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly met yesterday with banking industry officials to lecture them on ways to stem a sharp increase in bank robberies in recent months.
Le Guin may not have written a novel since 2008's Lavinia, but the always sharp, frequently funny, and unfailingly confident compilation of essays, lectures and book reviews show she hasn't stopped working.
As professor of poetry at Oxford (2010-15), Hill delivered 15 lectures on writers from Shakespeare to Larkin, occasionally making sharp remarks about the state of contemporary poetry and the current poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy.
