Example sentences for: erudition

How can you use “erudition” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But what we get is mostly less than meets the eye: the erudition of the cocktail party and the emotional range of a good TV sitcom, middlebrow pleasures dressed up in the trappings of high learning--modernism without difficulty.

  • When critics do get around to talking about the quality of the book, they praise its "wit and erudition" (Laura Shapiro, Newsweek ). (The Tupperware Corp.'s home page includes information on its products as well as how to give a Tupperware party.)

  • They are thus deeply attracted to a graceful writer like Gould, who frequently misrepresents the field (perhaps because he does not fully understand its essentially mathematical logic), but who wraps his misrepresentations in so many layers of impressive, if irrelevant, historical and literary erudition that they seem profound.

  • In an engaging, wide-ranging display of erudition, Firmage discusses the letters' symbological values in such diverse parlances as chemistry, music, ancient and modern mysticism (including far too much New Age material for my tastes), while quotes from such diverse figures as Joyce, Rabelais, Dostoyevsky, Bob Dylan--and Elmer Fudd--interlard the text.

  • Beginnings: Intention and Method , the book which made Said's academic reputation, is a bulky study of how novels begin, carried out through painstakingly close formal analysis and displaying crushing erudition.


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