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studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)- It is a prestigious liberal arts school.
liberal arts = focusing on studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills
- I plan to get a liberal arts degree and then apply to law school.
- The old man admitted to being a retired English professor who had been thrown out upon the world forty years ago when the last liberal arts college shut for lack of students and patronage.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- Shamsoun, Natnael, and Yousph were all accepted at Pfeiffer University, a liberal arts college in North Carolina.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
- My sister is going to a "small liberal arts college back East" called Sarah Lawrence.Stephen Chbosky -- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- If the liberal arts do nothing else, they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
- We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts.James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Wick Sachs was an undergrad at the time, a liberal arts student, very brilliant mind.James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
- This was during my second semester at UC Berkeley, where I had enrolled as a liberal arts major and later changed to fine arts.Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
- But he didn't trust all the liberal arts girls who found him romantic, his scars from a birthmark and beatings things they wanted to cure.Alice Sebold -- Lucky
- Oh no, nothing like that, just a liberal arts course.Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
- But colleges, particularly small liberal arts colleges like Reed, tend not to be rigid bureaucracies.Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
- Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, after the storm of June 13, 1892.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- Decretals digested, he flung himself upon medicine, on the liberal arts.Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Brown's math department is particularly strong for a school so widely known for liberal arts.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- By the time I got out of the army, Caroline had earned an undergraduate degree in liberal arts.Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client
- Selective, challenging, with an emphasis on liberal arts.Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One
- Through the trees, she could just make out the spire that belonged to the chapel at Hollis College, the small liberal arts school where her dad taught.Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars
- In less than two weeks of art classes, I transferred from the Liberal Arts College to the College of Art.Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America
- She had not gone to college, $234,000 worth of elite liberal arts education, for a job like that.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
liberal arts = focusing on studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills
liberal arts = intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills