Sentences with phrase «erudition writing»

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All this erudition the book wears lightly, with humanizing insets, orienting lists and superlatives, smooth writing, and the occasional chatty one - liner to undo years of distortions.

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.

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

What can I say, Barry writes ably and amusingly, without losing erudition.

He wrote beautiful, conventionally «avant - garde» novels early on, but in his last 20 years or so he wrote novels that were like compilations of his astonishing erudition.

Not all the artists are black, of course, and racial and cultural identity do not preside — but are instead replaced by — as Ligon writes, curatorial erudition, and the «formal, political, and metaphysical ways the colors have been used.»

«Nochlin writes with a dazzling mix of erudition and candor.

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.

I don't understand the erudition / expedition reference either but I'd like to read the article if you write it.

There is a big difference between a coherent passage of writing and a flaunting of one's erudition, a running journal of one's thoughts, or a published version of one's notes.