sabbatical

• Since I was out of the classroom for the entire year (first on sabbatical, then on maternity leave), I was much more focused on research, and much more introspective about my research work.
• He never went back after the sabbatical, and his notes for the Pound book sat stacked in the basement with last year's newspa­pers. —  Prayers to Broken Stones
• When we were living in the States for my dad's sabbatical, there was crime in the streets and kids shooting each other in school and people were always asking me if it wasn't scary to live in a dangerous country like Israel. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 2002
• That makes Scorsese's film no less entertaining -- though his decision to stop long before some of the most fascinating aspects of Dylan's life and career (the accident and subsequent sabbatical, the Basement Tapes, his conversion, etc.) -- or illuminating for what it is, but it does call into question the notion that a film can adequately express a person's essence. —  Things I'd Rather Be Doing
• "It's like a sabbatical, like when the lawyer goes back to Harvard and teaches for 10 years and he comes back and is a great trial lawyer after that." —  AltWeeklies.com Site Feed

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