academese

The academese is tortured, but the words are wise.

The Admiral's mixed metaphors were as bad as the professor's academese.

Strip out the abstractions and academese and this is what inequality looks like in the raw.

But then she seems suddenly to remember that she's a professor and starts studding the text with analysis delivered in language-withering academese.

This examines the Newts' sexuality and reproductive processes in a pastiche of academese.

And what's academese for gilding the lily?

Too many of their sentences spin out of control, driven by the idioms of academese.

The tone oscillates wildly between droning academese and slick flippancy."

His father was still tapping notes onto his padd, muttering to himself in what Milo's mother used to call "academese."

Pinto describes her work as a "non-linear postmodern reading" of Israel, and at its worst the writing degenerates into academese.

Academese aside, sometimes the comments in conversations became downright venomous, as if some atavistic social nerve had been touched.

Distill the questions and include less academese and more straightforward language that calls forth thoughtful and original responses.

One minute Wolf is supposed to be revealing her most intimate experiences, and the next minute she's writing in a humorless, self-regarding academese.

At times, his prose lapses into turgid academese and his analysis into rigid schemata.

Schorr's book is a stunner because it ducks no controversy and lays out a course for innovation in puissant prose, not stodgy academese.

Among worthy history books, written in dull academese, here was a biography of the 19th-century prime minister, Lord Melbourne, written to amuse and entertain.

- "Here he gives a favorable recapitulation of the Cultural Revolution, written in a mixture of dry academese and Maoist jargon."

Although her text can get bogged down in philosophical academese likely to lose the lay reader, she has a magpie’s eye for the stories that show our civilisation at its worst.

Anyone who has been put off Anglo-Saxon poetry because of the stiffness or academese of older translations will discover much to enjoy in "The Word Exchange."

But the book is by no means a dry scholarly text written in academese in which, in John Kenneth Galbraith's words, "obscurity is next to divinity."

Unlike so many writers of narrative non-fiction, Hollis eschews the drift towards academese prose and the dusty hemming and hawing that takes the place of spurious objectivity.

Goffman, for instance, often achieves ironic effects by using perspective by incongruity, and many people use a Veblenesque deadpan translation of evaluative statements into mock-objective academese to the same end.

"At that point in time" was academese long before it became famous in Watergate, and "during that time frame " seems to be a vague effort to put officious brackets around the past.

It is refreshing, after wading through politically weighted academese, to hear Nikki Douglas of the Web zine Grrl Gamer declare: "Community and collaboration are what women bring to the table?

Mr. Jhally reaches his conclusions within a zone of political correctness, decrying the victimization of women, reciting shocking rape statistics and using academese like "the gaze" and "gender and sexual power relationships."