Mr. Sykes, a photographer and writer, does little to situate his subject's work within a historical context, and the reader occasionally longs for somewhat more scholarly insights into, say, Mr. Hockney's debts to the Fauves and Cubists, or the continuing dialogue in his work between abstraction and the figural.
Richard Veit, a professor at Monmouth University who wrote "Digging New Jersey's Past," would like to have seen it ("from a distance," he notes), partly to compare how archaeological efforts at the battlefield match up with how things actually unfolded, but partly for a somewhat less scholarly reason.
The researchers bought the data from Web of Science, the massive if somewhat flawed database of scholarly publications maintained by Thomson Reuters.
The reading matter on display offered proof that he was adhering to this scholarly, if somewhat obscure, program.
Nevertheless, "cause and effect" remained terms used in physics, somewhat anachronistically, especially for scholarly purposes until the end of the 19th century.
Our little tour group included — besides us, a couple of pre-teen kids from the neighborhood, and a fact-filled Park Ranger for a guide — a scholarly-looking, somewhat heavyset man in blue jeans, a leather jacket, black-rimmed glasses, and a salt-and-pepper beard.
Our little tour group included besides us, a couple of pre-teen kids from the neighborhood, and a fact-filled Park Ranger for a guide a scholarly-looking, somewhat heavyset man in blue jeans, a leather jacket, black-rimmed glasses, and a salt-and-pepper beard.
For generations the British Museum cheerfully embraced its reputation for being scholarly, exotic and somewhat down at the heel, with its musty corridors crowded with centuries of imperial booty and having at its heart that favorite refuge of philosophers, conspirators, dreamers and eccentrics, the round Reading Room of the British Library.
And with both a scholarly and a somewhat jocular eye, people here are exploring the legacy of moment when, the myth goes, Buffalo began its slide from the nation's 8th largest city to its 59th and from a boomtown to a symbol of rust belt decay.
The translators' determination to use as many English words as possible sometimes results in versions that, by modern scholarly standards, can be somewhat free and inexact.
