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Recent Examples of donnish Much of it is donnish intellectual history, full of interesting but digressive discussions. —
Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
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Masud Husain is a professor of neurology and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow at New College, Oxford.— Big Think, Big Think, 14 Apr. 2026
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And Rachel Weisz is very professorial in all those gently eccentric power separates.— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
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But even for in-person classes, adaptations to prevent LLM cheating are often concessions that reduce pedagogical quality.— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026
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Weisz’s antiheroine is a middle-aged professor with chronic writer’s block and mounting insecurity about her potential irrelevance, both erotic and pedagogical.— Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Mar. 2026
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Meghna Rao, Substack Rao’s chatty, approachable style makes her regular bookish Substacks a treat for the inbox.— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
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There are authors and booths everywhere, and plenty of totes and bookish merch to get your hands on.— Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
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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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When not identified early, this can potentially derail a student’s scholastic trajectory from the very first days of school.— Sherri Helvie, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2026
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Fugard lets his scholastic streak drive a good deal of the conversation.— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
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In fact, that sharing was part of the impetus for her latest project, a graphic novel retelling of the Greek myth of Philonoe called The Lost Daughter of Sparta, which is both pretty nerdy and supremely cool.— Marah Eakin, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026
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In interviews, the 26-year-old electro-pop artist and producer has referenced growing up as one of few Asian teenagers in Wichita, Kansas, and feeling perpetually nerdy and uncool.— Lydia Wei, Pitchfork, 13 Apr. 2026
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