Sentences with phrase «erudition about»

Leddy writes that «He brought his writings, his artistic solutions, and his considerable erudition about First Nations and pre-Columbian culture to New York — primarily in the form of the journal Dyn — but those ideas were gradually appropriated by New York artists.

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Luke Timothy Johnson, a New Testament scholar at Emory, reviews the second volume in Commonweal and admires the erudition and minute detail with which Meier goes about his task.

Far from indicating effete and irrelevant erudition, the capacity to talk about Jane Austen or T.S. Eliot or James Joyce was once seen as clear indication of a highly developed and socially relevant mind.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

Oliver's insouciant self - confidence clearly derives from his combination of high erudition — he thinks nothing of, practically on arrival, engaging with the professor in a duel of etymology about the derivation of the word «apricot» — and the looks of an Adonis.

It's about principles and erudition.

Others have written about the end of Western civilization, but none with more cogent erudition than Barzun.

Peter Mayle sipping pastis in «A Year in Provence» and Frances Mayes rhapsodizing about her garden in «Under the Tuscan Sun» prove Fussell half - right, as they are the age of tourism's frothy answer to Gerald Brenan's amateur anthropology in «South from Granada» and Norman Douglas's raffish erudition in «Siren Land.»

Some have described this judgment as awesome... -LSB--RSB- In my view, judgments like this also do something much less appealing and much more troubling — they turn a decision about the rights and interests of parties before the court into an opportunity to show off the cleverness and erudition of the judge.»

In my view, however, judgments like this also do something much less appealing and much more troubling — they turn a decision about the rights and interests of parties before the court into an opportunity to show off the cleverness and erudition of the judge.