In the universities of today, wise academics preface every lecture with trigger warnings, in case something they say should cause offence to the kind of student whose quickness to take offence is the only quick thing about him.
And, he pointed out, the Tories had only themselves to blame for the fact that the Lords had thrown the boundary changes out, because it was they who, by refusing Lords reform, had protected "the great, the good, the wise, the academics, the apoliticals, the public servants and the generals, who came together in their wisdom and gave us this clause".
Why then, even with the most whizz-bang, double-blind, placebo controlled studies of cognitive behavioral strategies assisting us in our self-change plans, a veritable library of well-researched, and pretty wise popular and academic books on the topic, do we still find it so incredibly hard to put our resolutions into action?
It's a watchable film, though it tends a little too far to the moral-panic way of thinking, with teens cast in the role of addicts, and their elders and betters – those wise, grey-haired academics – telling us the net is bad for them.
In a low, heated voice, he wises up the academic apprentice to the realities of corruption and violent evil they've blundered into the middle of.
Surely, you moved into this new position expecting that it would represent a wise move up the academic career ladder, but instead you find yourself in a very bad situation!
"The school is very strict, very demanding academic-wise," Ms. Rodriguez said.
"It's been really fun to be part of his change and growth academic-wise," Fischer said.
AE: Academic-wise, I just graduated Ithaca College with a major in Architecture and minors in Mathematics and Accounting.
Uh-oh, cringe alert: an academic who cracks wise.
The violent offshoot of the demonstration was criticsed today by Stevie Wise, the vice president of academic affairs for the Edinburgh University Students Associationn.
