The studious people who made BBC's grandly irritating Seven Ages of Rock see them as being beneath them.
In contrast to his feisty, sarcastic sister, Dell is a quiet, studious boy who loves school and spends his free time studying chess and the art of beekeeping.
Two-parent families also find it easier to raise well-adjusted, studious children, who go on to start stable families of their own.
His father, Noam, has described him as "a shy boy with a nervous smile and a studious disposition," who loved basketball and excelled in physics.
I was once very much like the clock-building Ahmed Mohamed in Irving, Texas, a precocious, studious child who tried to impress my teachers and fellow students.
Larin himself is still the quiet, almost studious type who rarely speaks up and has reporters straining to pick up his words at post-game media conferences.
She was a quiet, studious girl who attended an Islamic high school, where she was trying to take her end-of-year exams while protesting.
The place is provincial England, the time is the nineteen-eighties, and the hero is Will Proudfoot Bill Milnerr), a shy and studious boy who lives with his mother among the Plymouth Brethren, a religious sect.
Sexton, a studious man who managed by coaching manual, was sacked after his four and a half years in charge generated no trophies, but high-profile, expensive mistakes, such as the £1.25m on misfiring striker Garry Birtles.
For Mr. Fulop, a studious overachiever who had to end an interview in his nearly-empty campaign office to go take one of his final exams in an M.B.A. program at New York University, this is a great point of pride.
