Sentences with phrase «not erudite»

I know this is not erudite, complete, whatever.

They have become experts in English Language Arts, but not erudite readers of English literary tradition.

Not exact matches

And a few of us remember from the No Left Turns days that, while ultimately not agreeing, he admitted the power of a Christian and virtue - ethics «media - fasting» case made against all TV by the commenter «wm.» «Wm» is a very erudite and Catholic (and yet also rock - attuned) professor whose identity I'll reveal if I get permission, and here's a taste of what he said in that thread:

She's not always right, but she's erudite, and she writes with verve.

«God makes a gift of revelation, not to the erudite theologians but to the uncouth, to the children, to those who, with filial spirit, are able to say Abba opens the Kingdom» (Jeremias, 1974:142).

Simpletons acting on faith as opposed to the erudite who rely on logic is as much as saying simpletons don't want to know why anything is the way it is, they just accept what they have been told without a shred of evidence.

The summation you will grasp from this person's tirade is someone to be pitied, someone clearly who has been so wounded that all they have left is to hide behind a moniker on a blog and attack others for not living up to this persons erudite ideas.

One reason I will share, however, is that I feel I have something to say on the debate that I have not found written anywhere else by any of the well educated and highly erudite scholars on both sides of the debate.

Yes we share even the very same air that they breath and yet even they are afraid of the unknown even though they don't show it and seem so brave and lucidly erudite about life.

(It is also interesting that Acton apparently does not share the editorial writer's view of Pope Gelasius as one of the «critical moments» in the emergence of democratic thought; I have come across no mention of Gelasius in any of Acton's very erudite writings on this subject.)

I do not believe the erudite Fr.

I would like to leave an erudite comment but I just can't stop scrolling back up to look at your fabulous bread, Anshie!

It's been a remarkable case in that even the most established, educated and erudite football writers don't seem to have a clue what will happen.

After all, not many historians have the intellectual range to produce erudite essays on Primo Levi's novels, yet also turn their attention to US diplomatic history or a profound analysis of current events for The New York Review of Books.

Describing Justice Ofoe's decision as «erudite», Mr Justice Korbieh said Woyome's guilt was not proved based on the totality of the evidence adduced by the prosecution.

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.

No matter how calculating and erudite the neocortex becomes, it can't simply switch off the amygdala.

It is soooo clearly and consistently all about really helping people, not about chest - beating or competitions of who can appear the most erudite or who can write in the most scientifically esoteric manner to obfuscate what would be really helpful information for people to know and to be able to use in their own lives.

The most of Russian women are very smart and erudite and are not afraid to express their points of view.

Shailene Woodley's Tris Prior is not afraid as she fights back against Jeanine and the Erudite clan in a TV spot and photos for Insurgent.

Perry isn't the first writer - director to deal with erudite New York neurotics, egotists and misanthropes: he's earned comparisons in reviews to Noah Baumbach, Wes Anderson and Woody Allen, among others.

«I'm not going to fight you,» Tris tells Jeanine, as she is hooked up to the simulation machine at Erudite headquarters.

Film criticism, not without its own scandals last year, is now dominated not so much by erudite journalists but white, male geeks who, somewhere between their love of comic book movies and web design, decided they had the chops to write about cinema without relevant education or experience.

An erudite, Jewish Ivy League graduate — and closeted gay man — who spoke nine languages and was a regular guest on a popular TV quiz show, Berg was an incredibly multifaceted character far removed from Rudd's recent efforts that would allow him to stretch as an actor, as he worked with language coaches and tried to tap into a man who wouldn't let himself be known.

By the end of the film, you'll either come away refreshed that it doesn't exactly end up how you might think, or upset that you've wasted your time following phony - baloney characters stuck in the middle of a faux - erudite shaggy - dog story.

Let's put it this way: you won't see a black kid in Erudite.

If you don't know Abnegation from Amity or Candor from Erudite, then «Allegiant» isn't going to help any.

Let's face it, you're not heading to Hot Tub Time Machine for witty erudite discussions.

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

Sifting through the several thousand articles on the site, a reader can't help but feel nostalgic for the days when Rosenbaum was producing his lucid, erudite prose on a regular basis.

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

Banning erudite, cerebral content from the Palme D'or or the Baftas over a pernickety technicality wrapped in prejudice and fear for the future doesn't make an institution greater.

Even erudite books that go viral, like Iain McGilchrist's «The Master and His Emissary: the Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World» published in 2012 by Yale University Press has not the capability to change global brain hemisphere leadership.

Even my colleague Jay Mathews wrote a column on his Class Struggle blog that called «erudite» a Tilson piece in which Tilson personally attacked Ravitch, and then Jay took Ravitch to task for something she said about Teach for America about which I don't think she was wrong.

David Berliner Regents» Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University «The Mismeasure of Education is a magnificent work, an elegantly written, brilliantly argued and erudite exposition on why the «what,» «how» and «why» of effective teaching can not be adequately demonstrated by sets of algorithms spawned in the ideological laboratories of scientific management at the behest of billionaire investors... This book will serve as a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of the nation's educational tribunals and their adsentatores, ingratiators and sycophants in the business community... The Mismeasure of Education will have a profound resonance with those who are fed up with the hijacking of our nation's education system.

But what if there's no guide, or there is a guide but the topics just don't seem right for your group (occasionally reading guides veer too far to the simplistic, othertimes they can be so erudite as to be almost unintelligible in a discussion setting.)

We pride ourselves on delivering papers that are remarkable, but not flamboyant, erudite, but not verbose.

Reading poetry, declares award - winning poet Hirsch in this passionate and erudite celebration, is a spiritual act not only because it engenders rapture but also because poetry is an art of deep moral significance, a point he proves with many soul - stirring examples of great poetry from Ovid to the present.

If pearls of wisdom from MAD Magazine are not your style, the erudite gems from The Literary Book of Answers may be.

In this novel, erudite citations are side by side with references to comic books or the movies, and not just art house movies but commercial blockbusters.

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.

George Plimpton's The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair: And Other Excursions and Observations is not unlike its late author: erudite in manner, endearing in tone, an elegant anomaly in a world so often characterized by its lack of grace and charm.

Whereas in your 20s you could count yourself among the financially erudite if you were simply living within your means and not racking up consumer debt, that's not going to cut it anymore.

But I really don't have to make the argument: If / when this bull market keeps marching higher, I have no doubt we'll be spoon - fed all the erudite & compelling arguments we need to justify it,'til investors can no longer help themselves & inevitably turn the market into a self - reinforcing bubble.

Dodge's is a sophisticated, erudite work of art, but I couldn't really say why it belongs in the show.

These two artists are very different, but their basic message is that painting can be renewed in ways we haven't seen before, whether it is reshaped by Mr. Marshall's erudite meditation on black life in America, or exploded from within, as in Ms. Owens's worldly, encompassing formalism.

The very talented, ceaselessly inventive artist Francis Upritchard is a sculptor who doesn't stand still, ranging across registers — from the comic to the pathetic, the utopian to the surreal — while maintaining a consistently arch yet erudite edge.

If it is erudite, it isn't understandable.»

From coining the terms Piltdown Mann and treemometers, to outing Gleick, to his work with the BEST team trying to make sense of data, I personally believe is not fit for purpose, few people have been as erudite and multifaceted.

I don't really care how pampered or arrested or street wise hardened, eloquent and erudite or not marcott et al all might be.