Sentences with phrase «of erudition»

The wise men had a long intellectual history of erudition and along - term practice of mastery.

The Haveli Rooms perfectly reflect the royalty of Rajasthan, and have been designed with a great deal of erudition.

With her outspoken mix of erudition and wit, Helen Kohen had already made a national mark when she retired in 1995 after 17 years as...

The late polymath Peter Bernstein poured a long lifetime of erudition and insight into this intellectual history of risk, luck, probability and the problems of trying to forecast what the future holds.

The leaders in American culture are not like the tiny minority of landed aristocracy who were educated as gentlemen at Oxford or Cambridge so that they might enjoy their leisure and be ornaments of erudition.

There's a sheen of erudition, but it's often annoyingly, insufferably bro - y — like an Ivy League sports bar with too many regulars.

But his regal bearing, upright posture, and air of erudition if not craftiness appealed to American directors who wanted slippery Euro - villains.

Jackie Kennedy, in turn, had mesmerizing style, an uncanny combination of erudition, charm, and aloofness that was unique and authentic to her.

Two of the Erudition schools were transferred to the Academy Transformation Trust and one to the Castle Phoenix Trust.

Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors.

As Umberto Eco has observed: «the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers...»

As characterized by Michael Torosian in his introduction, «The portfolio is the synthesis of erudition and passion, a connoisseur's survey, and it's also a memoir, a look back at some of the touchstones that have made up a collection, a career and a life.»

«This is the double - headed monster of erudition, half seeing too much and half of it blind.»

How can the author of this scrap of erudition have failed to include a recognition of geoengineering?

Up until recently no self respecting lawyer would be without some paper resource to consult, or at least decorate the office to impress the clients as a sign of erudition.

The wise men had a long intellectual history of erudition and a long - term practice of mastery.

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