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Recent Examples of donnish
Much of it is donnish intellectual history, full of interesting but digressive discussions.
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Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
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Nicolas Cage went for a high-concept ghoul in Longlegs; Hugh Grant reveled in professorial malevolence in Heretic; Naomi Scott unraveled in the face of grinning death in Smile 2.Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
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The movie’s true set pieces are the professorial villain’s ostentatious monologues using fast food, musical plagiarism, and Monopoly as metaphors to point out how modern religions are just conspicuous iterations of what’s come before.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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The technology can serve as an interesting pedagogical tool.Nir Eisikovits, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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Effective Content Delivery Methods Sound pedagogical methods should drive SEL design.Hashim Hayat, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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The story is about a bookish Black girl, in love with English literature (and the emotionally indecipherable white professor teaching it) at a predominantly white university in 1949, losing her childhood illusions — and then, in a gothic twist, losing much more.Scott Brown, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
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Bryce Young is bookish, too.Joseph Goodman | jgoodman@al.com, al, 9 Dec. 2022
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As men's wear grew less formal, Woody Allen would stake a claim on baggy khaki and corduroy as the uniform of a tweedy, tightly wound New Yorker.Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 12 June 2024
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Her clothes, increasingly, have a pragmatic femininity, like a number of tweedy bellbottom suits that opened the show, some with vests of blue and coral beads covering the front, or diamond patterns of turquoise and plum sequins on the sleeves.Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Dec. 2022
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Starting this scholastic year, the program is donating 175,000 euros to institutions located in the U.S. and U.K. Plans are afoot to expand globally in the future.Jennifer Weil, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024
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Public health, the work of public health cannot be principally scholastic.Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
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“Donnish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/donnish. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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