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Although many of its contributors are card-carrying members of the professoriat, a significant number are artists and some are "independent scholars," a discreet euphemism for defrocked academics; trust-fund autodidacts who've disappeared down the rabbit hole of their obscure obsessions; intellectual omnivores with a magpie's eye and a hummingbird's attention span who Want to Know Everything About Everything (a cardinal sin in an age of intellectual niche marketing).

Boing Boing 2009

And a great gift that someone sent me, an intact hummingbird's nest from California.

In My Home Office: Maira Kalman 2011

The sound of the hummingbird's wings is more than I could bear.

Change Susan Gibb 2011

Next, I watched, heart beating like a hummingbird's, as a giant golden beast barreled towards me.

sauve qui peut - French Word-A-Day 2009

Next, I watched, heart beating like a hummingbird's, as a giant golden beast barreled towards me.

French Word-A-Day: 2009

They weigh less than a hummingbird's spleen, but are extremely strong.

Bases and Rings, Part Two 2008

They're strong and may be as light as a hummingbird's spleen, but I'm sure the price is as high as a giraffe's balls.

Bases and Rings, Part Two 2008

The Aztecs dedicated one of the buildings in their ceremonial center at Tenochtitlan (the forerunner of Mexico City) to the "cut-off hummingbird's head".

Did you know? Mexico is home to more than fifty hummingbird species 2008

  We gave each other a look that lasted as long as the flutter of a hummingbird's wings, then sold the ducats at a premium.

Poetry for Cats 2010

The Aztecs dedicated one of the buildings in their ceremonial center at Tenochtitlan (the forerunner of Mexico City) to the "cut-off hummingbird's head".

Did you know? Mexico is home to more than fifty hummingbird species 2008