Sentences with phrase «more erudite»

Down - to - earth Pop - art was also a welcome counterpoint to the more erudite Abstract Expressionism, which was already started to fade.

Sitting down to review the research with PLANADVISER, Gilliam stressed the importance of retirement plan officials and fiduciaries taking time to build a more erudite understanding of the evolving TDF marketplace, especially as it pertains to the often misleading terminology of «active versus passive.»

His film being MOLIERE, the subject of comedy as a serious business naturally came up when we talked on July 10, 2007, but it was his lively musings on what makes a good script, how to imitate a horse, as well as his citation of Joseph Campbell that made this one of the more erudite, as well as entertaining, interviews I've ever conducted.

In more erudite language it resembles the old familiar call to conversion, «Are you saved?»

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..

Indeed, it is only the need to chip away more mass and marble that prevents this erudite and indispensable volume from being truly magisterial.

Oppenheimer's are erudite and penetrating, but Lewis» proclamations (and the many others like it) raise a deeper, more troubling question.

Prof. Yakubu affirmed that Momoh's contribution to the deepening of democracy was immeasurable, maintaining that nothing could be more befitting to the memory of the erudite scholar than a lecture of such timely and topical magnitude.

In an erudite collection of essays on art that sparkle with his sardonic wit, the English novelist Julian Barnes wisely observes: «An artist's career... is more likely to be a matter of obsessional overlap, of ferrying back and forth, of process rather than result, journey rather than arrival.»

The now in - charge Erudite is once more led by the coolly cruel Jeanine (played by an over-qualified Kate Winslet), initially glimpsed as a giant image spewing propaganda like some sort of Big Sister.

It's action - packed in the extreme, as Young Heroine Tris (Shailene Woodely) and «Dauntless» hunk Four (Theo James) run from the armed, motorized thugs that the smug Erudite elitists send after them, with barely time for a betrayal, a moment of weakness and a break for Shailene Woodley to pile on more makeup and lip gloss.

Synopsis: A pair of brothers living in Brooklyn are caught in the middle of, and deeply affected by, the divorce of their erudite parents, Bernard (Jeff Dani... [MORE]

Jeanine (Kate Winslet), the leader of «Erudite» (intelligent people — i.e. villains), has taken over the city and is searching for individuals who are «Divergent» (they have qualities belonging to more than one faction), because one is needed in order to open a mysterious box which contains a vital plot device of some sort.

Perhaps if Binder had tried to stick to an «empty suit» agent finally coming to terms with dealing with what's really inside him, without all of the obvious gags and dumb thriller elements, Man About Town would have had the chance to be as erudite as Binder tries to deliver during the more serious moments.

The Warlock is a more attractive character on both an intellectual and physical level — he is more refined and erudite, and actor Julian Sands is more «movie star handsome» than his foil, Richard E. Grant.

What she doesn't realize is she may the key to giving even more power to the controlling Erudite faction.

If only these erudite themes weren't stuffed into a suit of commercialism itself, perhaps they would have been more resonant.

He did it by being compelling and kind and funny, sharing his vast, erudite knowledge, and doing so in a way that made students crave more.

Newsosaur is one of the most erudite newspaper bloggers around — so it was rather surprising to read Felix Salmon's post claiming that he knows more than Newsosaur about the viability of non-profits running newspapers.

So I'm thinking we can make it even more efficient by you disintermediating (that's an erudite way of saying eliminating, and erudite's a fancy way of saying scholarly — or close enough for our purposes) the part where I have to create something you then read, and instead, we just cut to the chase and you send me money!

I was impressed with the erudite response; I am even more impressed today, given the facile answers often given by politicians to constituents.

-- He concluded his talk «False Starts, Loose Ends» at the 2002 College Art Association conference in Philadelphia with some erudite self - deprecation: «You may be amused to learn that more writing is planned, for which I already have some adequate titles, such as «Flotsam & Then Some.»

Witty, erudite and principled, he spent more than half a century promoting the work of artists ranging from the St Ives School to American Abstract Expressionists, as well as Picasso, Matisse and the Pop artists.

To head up a list of the art world's most influential people with such an erudite, politically committed figure sends a clear message that the 2017 Power 100 is more about ideas than money.

John Russell, who contributed elegant, erudite art criticism for more than a half - century to The Sunday Times of London and The New York Times, where he was chief art critic from 1982 to 1990, and who helped bring a generation of postwar British artists to international attention, died Saturday.

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Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Ruth Root's seven striking shaped canvases, on display at Andrew Kreps Gallery in Chelsea and all untitled, might recall Elizabeth Murray's transcendent household paintings, Hermine Ford's erudite explorations of nature and artifice, or, more distantly, Kelly and Stella's hard - edge Minimalist works.

Ari and Eric wanted to do more than just events; they wanted to create a restaurant where people had meet and have erudite conversations over a meal.

That means crafting impeccable memoranda with more - than - ample precedent, syntactical precision, and just the right number of erudite footnotes.

Well, CanLII's internal statistics indicate that over twice as many page views originate from Facebook as from Twitter links, but as this example shows, the circumstances that attract attention on that network may tend more to the peculiar or salacious than the comparatively erudite debate found on Twitter.