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The long-suffering younger Forster described his father, in an understatement, as having “a tendency toward self-love, pride, and a certain scholarly vanity.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
His thesis, defended in careful, scholarly and erudite fashion, is also right there in the title and spelled out early and plainly in the Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Applications go first to peer experts, who evaluate scholarly merit.
From Slate • May 14, 2026
The National Endowment for the Humanities was established by Congress in 1965 to fund scholarly and cultural work across the country.
From Slate • May 14, 2026
Some genres, such as the scholarly journal article, force an author to lay out her point in a summary, an abstract, or a synopsis.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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