Joey was something of a scholar, when necessary.
She was becoming "something of a scholar of the company," she said.
While admitting he is something of a scholar on the subject, he claims no particular expertise.
Over the years, Mr. Conte's records have turned him into something of a scholar, which he never was at school.
Meanwhile, Jordan Miller, the Web master of an enormously popular Britney Spears fan site, BreatheHeavy, has turned being a super fan into being something of a Spears scholar, appearing as a commentator on the singer for E Newss Daily and MTV.
A few years ago, when the third "Matrix" movie came out, articles on both sides of the Atlantic reported that Keanu Reeves — the eternal surfer dude and seemingly vacuous action hero — was in fact something of a deconstructionist scholar.
The Syrian archeologist assured him that he was wasting his time, that the scrolls were "not worth a shilling," but the Syrian brought to the monastery a Jew from the New City, a Mr. Tovia Wechsler, who was something of a Hebrew scholar.
Jiggens is something of a weed scholar.
Though Condillac's official reply to the charge of materialism, as expressed in the letter to Lignac, is something of a disappointment, scholars have occasionally read the Treatise as taking some steps towards a more radical way of dealing with the problem.
They bought it for a few hundred dollars, took it apart and laid it out in a field, where it remained for a few years while Mr. Handelsman, who became something of a Dutch barn scholar, learned how to put it back together.
Here and there, the bands appear to be describing something — the eccentric contour of a scholar's rock, a bear's shouldering gait — but always with teasing ambiguity.
