erudition

As you can see, there is plenty of erudition to go with the laughs.

But he shares with Foster Wallace a gift for exactitude, erudition, and moral concern.

Iyer employs a terrific combination of erudition and absurdity that calls to mind the great postmodernists.

Anderson carries his erudition lightly, but there's enough scholarship there to make an academic proud.

I respect Rabbi Yosef's erudition and his brave and sometimes iconoclastic halakhic (Jewish legal) writings.

But it was neither his talents as a diplomatist, nor his remarkable mind, nor his solid erudition, which made Nicot immortal.

Charity had picked up enough of her companion's erudition to understand what had attracted him to the house.

A good man, and a scholar of rare erudition, he possessed nevertheless the true temper of a bigot.

There is no erudition, no sublime thought, nor any production which surpasses the ordinary capacities of the human mind.

He was a man of great erudition, and there need be no hesitation in accepting this extraordinary prayer as genuine.