There's an academic sense of purpose and seriousness that the school is about learning.

The whole process was the 'institutionalization of academic common sense'.

It gives off an almost academic sense of calm and proportion.

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list.

However, he wasn't just a scholar in the academic sense.

You do not have to become a psychologist in the academic sense.

She felt that in an academic sense he was probably an appalling doctor.

He lacks guts and he's not very bright, except in an academic sense.

In the normal academic sense of the term, the Journal is arguably still a "standard work."

Not that it should actually have mattered, save in an academic sense.