Erudition used in a sentence

Erudition in a sentence as a noun

It has constant digressions to useless topics, like Int versus Integer, that just show off the author's erudition.

Remember, anybody who pulls his erudition or education on you hasn’t any.

Remember, anybody who pulls his erudition or education on you hasn’t any. Also, daughter, remember that I never carried Teddy bears to bed with me since I was four.

Reminds me of a proverb from Nassim Taleb: "Skills that transfer: street fights, off-path hiking, seduction, broad erudition. Skills that don't: school, games, sports, laboratory - what's reduced and organized."

I'll grant that there are people who consume summaries as a ploy to feign erudition, but honestly I don't think that's the motivation on HN when people ask for a tl;dr. In fact, if someone were to try to read everything and not use summaries, etc.

Lafferty's use of Greek, Latin, Irish, and Hebrew tags is not merely demonstration of his\nvast erudition. It is a technique used by magicians for\ncenturies to give their spells potency.

The last sentence is clumsily written if that's what you mean eruditely [with erudition; in an erudite manner;] I didn't take the time to make it shorter.

Germans place a greater premium on doctorates than Americans do as marks of distinction and erudition. [...

Borges wrote the literary equivalent of late night stoner conversations, covering up a lack of substance with erudition. I don't deny that the Nobel Prize can be political, but García Márquez was one of the most deserving recipients.

Like the prestigious national languages, it is a mark of erudition and social status; the demonstration of which is itself a purpose of education.

In my experience a big part of "the classics" seem to be using them as some kind of gamer achievement to prove your erudition. An argument can be made for them leading to a wider world view or exposure to thought provoking/timeless concepts, but I don't think enough people truly read them at that depth/for that reason.

Thus, if you will forget some of this excessive erudition, a wing becomes much easier to understand; it is in the last analysis nothing but an air deflector. It is an inclined plane, cleverly curved, to be sure, and elaborately streamlined, but still essentially an inclined plane.

I have seen no evidence that undergraduate social science degrees encourage better patterns of thought or erudition, the two most cited reasons for a liberal arts education.

It communicates something a wee bit different, for example that one is really going for university professor levels of erudition, but that works for some people. PG's writing style, for example, causes me to pull out a dictionary if I see a spelling mistake because it means there is probably a word I haven't learned yet.

Bringing the universities to everyone also means broadening the offerings — originally when it was only the erudition-inclined or well-to-do, a university could get away with having a great deal of humanities and other fields that do not generate grants or jobs. It was learning for learning's sake, which few could afford.

It's a combination of extreme, even admirable, erudition and a very hokey experimental setup designed to quantify the obvious.

On the other hand, most of us had at least a couple dissections under our belt by high school, and it wasn't like those critters willingly offered themselves up towards our erudition, either. A practical education in science did seem to involve doing things we could have just read about in books, even if it caused a few nitric acid stains here and there and dozens of fetal pigs to lay down their lives, so maybe I'm being too quick to judge.

I love how when writer who knows a huge amount of obscure **** and wraps contorted references to it into an unreadable mess is considered some kind of genius of erudition if the obscure **** involves, say, dead languages, religion and literature, but if it were dungeons and dragons and Harry potter it would be considered at best pop culture pastiche and at worst pathetic.