Sentences with phrase «less erudite»

He was helpful and patient with those of us who were less erudite.

With that in mind I found myself musing frequently during the first few hundred pages whether she might have been better off basing her story on something a little shorter and less erudite, an English literature unit at a 2 - year - college, perhaps - because it didn't seem possible that she could maintain the conceit of her novel through a full 500 + pages.

Therefore, since the African - American Black community is economically backward and less erudite the ratio of closeted lesbian would be less.

Not exact matches

Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, who also was the European Commission's top antitrust enforcer, gave an erudite and illuminating lecture on how the EU approaches antitrust with a more unified and less political voice than the U.S..

The pastors are less educated in erudite culture and therefore less distant from the church members.

OK, so the 20 % of the electorate that is Republican, plus what percent of the Independents leaning Republican, don't like Obama and can regurgitate every Party eruction (that's a belch, for the WAPO's less than erudite dictionary) on a moments non thought.

You know you're in for a long haul when Kate Winslet's clipboard - wielding Jeanine, leader of the Erudite faction, comes off less like a Hillary Clinton than a weary Applebee's supervisor at the end of a 14 - hour shift in this plodding sequel to «Divergent.»

What they got in those brief minutes at the end of each program was less debate than verbal sparring matches between two erudite intellectuals attacking the political philosophy and public record of the other and they were out for blood.

Twombly's early art has less in common with his later erudite sources such as Homer or the historian Edward Gibbon than it does with Allen Ginsberg's Beat poem Howl.

The installation is both erudite and sometimes unconventional, bringing together classic favorites and lesser - known works.

The above linked site also has an erudite technical discussion thread concerning this week's report about the state of accuracy of understanding of central Atlantic water currents now reported as 1/3 less mobile than when last measured 50 years ago, with conjecture about possible climate interrelationships if the interpretation is verified; the beginning article is here and the full discussion thread here covering various parts of that ocean.

The source of political contention is less the science in the IPCC's indigestibly erudite 4,000 - page reports than their translation into vivid Green rhetoric by the bureaucratic masters of the U.N. Environmental Program (UNEP).