The university was noted for its literature department and its encouragement of erudition. From LearnThat.org.
The erudition is dexterously deployed, with a heartening leaven of demotic obscenity. From Wordnik.com. [Cassocks and Codpieces] Reference
I expected a certain erudition, a certain level of scholarship and I have not found it. From Wordnik.com. [Where is the Wisdom? « So Many Books] Reference
Sometimes the aformentioned erudition is daunting -- I know I'm missing some aspects. From Wordnik.com. [Simple Meme: What Book Are You Reading Now?] Reference
Littré, the Learned, who in erudition was né coiffé, has missed this obvious derivation. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
ChadLove: I have always lived under the impression that erudition is inocculated at birth in Oklahoma hospitals. From Wordnik.com. [The Utah Exception] Reference
The Fried Henderson is an approach to problem solving rooted in erudition, experience and a love of World of Warcraft. From Wordnik.com. [The Fried Henderson and the value of being clever | FactoryCity] Reference
The highest pitch of his erudition was the annual almanack. From Wordnik.com. [An History of Birmingham (1783)] Reference
The literary guys have got too prosy, too lost in erudition. From Wordnik.com. [Yatterings » Of Infinite Attics and Rediscovered Time – Garry Kilworth interviewed] Reference
His profound erudition is more clearly and concisely interpreted by Sale, (Preliminary. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
It ` s beneath the kind of erudition I would expect from him. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2007] Reference
Check Ambrose Bierce's quote defining the word 'erudition', then take it literally as I did. From Wordnik.com. [Skullduggery] Reference
His erudition is remarkable. From Wordnik.com. [Coming Soon to One-Minute Book Reviews « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
What Arango did not document was the "erudition" in Parker's salvos against Palin. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Reference
The Ignatian educators used to warn against "erudition" and caution the teacher to express it sparingly. From Wordnik.com. [HS Blog - Homeschool Blog] Reference
His erudition is a double-edged sword. From Wordnik.com. [The New Choirboys] Reference
"erudition" is causing the writers who opposed Palin to walk away. From Wordnik.com. [MRC Latest Headlines] Reference
Of his erudition they were proud, even to worship. From Wordnik.com. [A Brace Of Boys 1867, From "Little Brother"] Reference
Hopkins thinks it's the erudition of the preachers. From Wordnik.com. [Trying Times for Trinity] Reference
The routine belies his erudition -- and the risks he runs. From Wordnik.com. [A Life In Exile] Reference
Your species erudition and memory are the sacrosanct text, not me. From Wordnik.com. [The Astigmatism Of The Human Genome Project] Reference
They prize her for her attitude and authenticity, not her erudition. From Wordnik.com. [Refudiate? Repudiate? Let's Call The Whole Thing Off] Reference
I had found few in life that appreciated the full extent of my erudition. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of Harvey (Chapter One)] Reference
Given the level of erudition of readers of this blog, I think you will be too. From Wordnik.com. [Jaime Escalante, Alfie Kohn, John Taylor Gatto and Frank Smith] Reference
After all that can be said, the work surprises us by the erudition it displays. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Pre-eminent critic who with easy erudition explored how ideas work in literature. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Frank Kermode obituary] Reference
For all this panstylistic erudition, though, Argue's music still swings hard whenever it wants. From Wordnik.com. [Jazz Standards That Aren’t] Reference
This impulse to display one's erudition may betray the doubts of an intellectually insecure man. From Wordnik.com. [Throwing Long] Reference
Though the mayors lacked erudition, the Windy City has fared better than others in the upper Midwest. From Wordnik.com. [The End of Chicago's Daley Dynasty] Reference
"Prophesy Deliverance!" was a Roman candle of erudition wrapped in religious imagery and Marxist jargon. From Wordnik.com. [A Prophet With Attitude] Reference
Syria pretty often of late, we need not display much geographical erudition in pointing out where it lies. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
Limited as was Clive's education, he was a person of erudition compared with Forrest, who read with difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
What do you get when you mix high-culture erudition (Homer to Hemingway) with pop-culture savvy (Ellen to Elian)?. From Wordnik.com. [Books: Raging Bull By Rushdie] Reference
The pop! pop! pop! of his erudition lit up the room, flickered as he digressed, then flashed spectacularly once more. From Wordnik.com. [The Brain And The Pig Trough] Reference
With its easy erudition, but not a footnote in sight, this book seems a long way from today's average academic output. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Frank Kermode obituary] Reference
Many more illustrations, still more pertinent to the case in point, his erudition supplied from the stores of history. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Among them: its frequent hilarity, its occasional tender sexiness, and the sheer erudition on display within its pages. From Wordnik.com. ['McKay's Bees' Alive With Wit And Wonder] Reference
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