learnedness

Seaton's title, one of learnedness, had no equivalent in our language.

It was the scholar's means of creating expressive poetry and sharing his or her own learnedness.

Of course, pop learnedness can be genuinely clever, helpfully perverse.

In general, the poet's non-classical usages contrast with his evident learnedness.

His learnedness in the ways of welfare earned him the nickname "Poppa Joe."

That may sound intimidating but St Deiniol's wears its learnedness lightly.

Like serious fiction, junk fiction requires its own sort of learnedness, which is often invisible and unacknowledged.

The desire to describe jazz as a form of classical music is, in my mind, related to its learnedness, shared by classical forms.

The very learnedness and prosperity that have contributed to the problem have also given it citizen-group cachet.

"You will pardon my humble pretensions of learnedness.

It is thus the origin of the English word pundit, which carries a somewhat similar connotation of learnedness.

Her stated reason for this is that she desires her work to be accessible to people regardless of their degree of learnedness.

"A lot of their statues show great men sitting in chairs, with dictionaries and geography books around them as metaphors for their learnedness.

Since religious scholar locally known as Mullah represents religious learnedness and authority in rural societies so does his forefathers.

The composer particularly admired their abstraction and inherent drama, and their "great learnedness in the service of very simple themes."

The name "Guangya" was chosen by Zhang Zhidong, meaning learnedness and righteousness.

We associate it therefore with learnedness and scientific objectivity, and apply it, we suppose, with clean precision.

Yet Mr. McClatchy has always tried to compensate for his sheen of learnedness and refinement with a moral seriousness and emotional depth.

"Gouldman" chides the ancient lexicographer for boasting of the attention he receives from pedants, pointing out that philological learnedness has little value for the man of action.

His mother was a member of the Beyrum family, a noble Turkish family which had risen to prominence in Tunis, and was famous throughout the Arab world for its learnedness in Moslem law.

Laws by Reza Shah that requiring military service and dress in European-style clothes for Iranians, gave talebeh and mullahs exemptions, but only if they passed specific examinations proving their learnedness, thus excluding less educated clerics.

There is dark humor here that Mr. Larcher doesn't seem to get, and there is a sweep to this music that disappears into all the little pockets of learnedness into which Mr. Larcher has divided it.

Ricker, making a lot of the references to Egyptian wisdom and learnedness, thought the mystery lady was still the Polish mistress, gone mad through love, and he was somewhat critical of de Castries for his treatment of her.

Einstein initially called this "superfluous learnedness", but later used Minkowski spacetime to great elegance in general theory of relativity, extending invariance to all reference frames-whether perceived as inertial or as accelerated-and thanked Minkowski, by then deceased.

She is sharply amusing on the strangeness of the ordinary world - at Miranda's Cambridge interview "the professors didn't have features, they were learnedness dressed up as people and housed in armchairs", and it is this vivid noticing tendency that disturbs the equilibrium of her novel.