"My classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance and courage," he writes, "against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism".
The elegant gold and silver vessels bore witness to the prosperity and ?good life? of the late antique aristocracy, while their graceful form and delicate ornamentation were designed to reflect the erudition and cultural values of their owners.
"Sontag in all her political essays and public statements and interviews and deeds tried valiantly to marshal her exceptional combination of erudition, intelligence, and empathy yoked to an abiding commitment to democratic values, in order to illuminate the present in a time of dizzying transformations, cynical manipulations and malleable geopolitical realities.
There is such a thing as sheer skill, or native grace, which may have more survival value than erudition or intellectual power.
I know my value to an ostensibly liberal magazine editor lay in my apostasy, the fact that I could provide a dose of erudition to a take like "Democrats are the real racists" so that it reads like something you might plausibly see in a magazine subscribed to by college graduates.
He was a man of erudition, warmth and humor.
Glasses -- a sign of erudition to her father -- a plus.
I always looked up to people of erudition, like Alistair Cooke".
reflect a rare blend of erudition and gut impulse...
Did someone make fun of his lack of erudition, growing up in Whitewater, Wisconsin?
He speaks better than most writers write, moving through thickets of erudition toward exact epiphanies.
