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Example sentences for: erudition

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This story is told well in Chernow's chapter "Captains of Erudition," which describes the hellish wrangling between Rockefeller and the free-spending William Rainey Harper, the first president of the University of Chicago.
He would entertain the Post newsroom (where I worked) with his stories--his rough, sonorous voice; his slow drawl; his erudition and love affair with the language; his cigarette ash building up until it rolled, unnoticed by him, down the front of his shirt.
(Thanks to Charles Paul Freund for lending his erudition.)
And I think you are right that his own self-conscious displays of erudition (which include his very mediocre poetry) lead him to evaluations of Reagan that are both condescending and politically naive.
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.)