Of purely theoretical interest

Usage examples of academic.

Coherence was achieved because the men who created the system all used the same, ever-growing body of textbooks, and they were all familiar with similar routines of lectures, debates and academic exercises and shared a belief that Christianity was capable of a systematic and authoritative presentation.

What they wanted was not a limited, academic type of inquiry such as they expected to be made by the Condon team, but a country-wide effort involving the resources of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The morbid listening of his mother in the night brought out the fact that he made frequent sallies abroad under cover of darkness, and most of the more academic alienists unite at present in charging him with the revolting cases of vampirism which the press so sensationally reported about this time, but which have not yet been definitely traced to any known perpetrator.

Singular, communed the guest with himself, the wonderfully unequal faculty of metempsychosis possessed by them, that the puerperal dormitory and the dissecting theatre should be the seminaries of such frivolity, that the mere acquisition of academic titles should suffice to transform in a pinch of time these votaries of levity into exemplary practitioners of an art which most men anywise eminent have esteemed the noblest.

Along with them came a murmuring academic program and text discussing how these locations demonstrated dichotomous usage.

The dish face contained nothing but the mild didacticism appropriate to an academic.

After returning to America, his father taught history at City College of New York, specializing in Iberia and its colonies, and Diffie had grown up immersed in the academic, left-wing politics of New York City in the fifties and early sixties.

He was sort of a career ectopic pregnancy--he was never going to produce anything, but he was determined to stay in the general area of the academic womb.

Carla and Abel, had given her the present of a summer in Virtu, before her life got hardball, red in tooth and claw, and otherwise preoccupied with things academic.

The refit of the Hawkbill had been a major accomplishment in this endeavor: the submarine had taken on an impressive array of sonar, seismic equipment, and a battery of other electronics intended for use by academic and governmental researchers.

Further, little attention is paid to previous writing about the same text, as if the advent of new historicism has wiped the academic slate clean.

Fisk was a typical academic, bald, jowly, reading glasses dangling from his neck.

You are very proficient in three languages, including the academic language of Keno, and the business language of Neno, which are both extremely helpful.

Because of their academic garb, the duke said it in Keno, the academic language, which he was not truly fluent in.

There are numerous exercises which have some part in the process of raising the Kundalini, and just to give you some information, on this subject let me tell you of one or two merely as a matter of academic interest.