What is "academia"

Usage examples of "academia".

Then twenty-two years ago, after nearly twenty years of ill-tempered confrontation with his fellow theorists, he had, with characteristic abruptness, resigned from his position at Cambridge and retreated to Launde Abbey to pursue his theories without carping interference from lesser minds, his brilliance and loud vocal intolerance of the dry, crusty world endemic to academia creating a media legend of Bohemian eccentricity in the process.

Left in academia on one hand meeting a newly radicalized Right on the other.

Even the Zeon governmentor the Zavi family, as the case may bestill officially denies the validity of the New Type concept, but select circles in academia have already advanced theories to support it.

IOU principle in mathematics caused an uproar verging on panic, so the deconstructionists were the terrorists of the linguistic world, sending panic echoing down the halls of establishment academia.

Jet-black Punjabis, for example, are prominent in the professions of central California - medicine, law, agribusiness and academia - oblivious to the fact that their hue is often darker than that of African-Americans.

He wore the uniform of academia: corduroy jacket fastened high to the neck, with worn and faded elbow patches, stone-washed denims, black Doc Martens and tortoiseshell round-rim glasses.

Communist affiliation in academia, misidentified the subcommittee and its chairman.

It also is a way for me to counterbalance the nonspiritual world of academia.

From his windowssuch was his status, his office had two windowshe looked out on the neat artificial lawns of academia, surrounded by tall everlasting trees.

I suspect this attitude began in academia, although it is a rather juvenile perspective: Teenagers frequently see the world they face as too big and complex, too awesome for them to fathom.

Mainland academe fostered some attitudes she had heard about from her mother, but which were outside her experience after her upbringing in Hawaii: in academia, her friends told her, a woman could not flirt and still be a serious researcher.

All my efforts had been no more than my inane eagerness to fence with the intellect, as if I were in academia where one can do that very thing from 8: 00 a.

Then twenty-two years ago, after nearly twenty years of ill-tempered confrontation with his fellow theorists, he had, with characteristic abruptness, resigned from his position at Cambridge and retreated to Launde Abbey to pursue his theories without carping interference from lesser minds, his brilliance and loud vocal intolerance of the dry, crusty world endemic to academia creating a media legend of Bohemian eccentricity in the process.

He maintained contacts throughout the physics community, in fact academia in general.

Even the Zeon governmentor the Zavi family, as the case may bestill officially denies the validity of the New Type concept, but select circles in academia have already advanced theories to support it.