Renaissance man

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Recent Examples of Renaissance man Songwriting was merely one aspect to the Renaissance man, who was also a Golden Globe-winning actor, Golden Gloves boxer, Rhodes scholar, author, U.S. Army veteran, pilot, and onetime record-label janitor. Stephen L. Betts, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024 Though Malcolm was no longer in the Nation of Islam, its members had a dress code combatting stereotypical images of Black people. 04 Lawyer, actor, and socialist activist Paul Robeson was a stylish Renaissance man. Malaika Jabali, Essence, 7 Sep. 2024 Today, he might be called a polymath or a Renaissance man. Harriet Quick, theweek, 17 July 2024 After all, the 72-year-old Hoosier is quite the Renaissance man, dabbling in film, musical theater, painting and more between album releases. Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for Renaissance man
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Noun
  • History attests to the creative power of polymaths.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The world ahead demands a new versatility, and thus, the broad range of skills and interests a polymath can bring.
    Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The musician is a walking satire of downtown presumptions—and his ferocious intellect turns out to be all business, too.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
  • Profound wisdom lives in your most receptive, quiet thoughts so your intuition can guide you where intellect sometimes can’t.
    Colin Bedell, Them., 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Fun fact from Mariners PR wiz Alex Mayer: the team has actually had a four-homer game on the road, by Mike Cameron in Chicago in 2002, since its last three-homer game at home.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • In the snippet, which is taken from Ramsey’s popular show, the money wiz shakes his head and buries it in his hands.
    Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The line includes patchwork and scalloped details, bright summery blues, and lilac flowers.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 May 2025
  • Recordings cover the entire musical spectrum, including jazz, blues, ragtime, bluegrass, boogie-woogie, country, rock and pop.
    Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • After a long, eight-year battle, in which the hospital claimed that Maura had a genetic underlying vascular malformation in the brain, jurors sided with the Gallaghers, concluding that Maura's death was preventable.
    Gillian Telling, People.com, 9 May 2025
  • Until the brain is fully developed, which happens in the mid-twenties, a person is more sensitive to rewarding experiences and less able to control their impulses, regulate their emotions, and understand the consequences of their actions.
    Ashleigh N. DeLuca, Parents, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • The wizard with the task of pulling this off indoors is Al Zaabi.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • Sophie sets out to find a way of lifting the curse and goes to the wizard Howl's castle.
    Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • This isn't exactly the Cultural Revolution, where Mao Zedong—distrustful of intellectuals and scientists—forced the country's best minds into menial labor.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
  • During the dispute over Babri Masjid, Ashis Nandy, a prominent Indian intellectual, began a series of interviews with R.S.S. members.
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Planting sage near beans can enhance the growth of your herbs and encourage sage to produce more leaves for harvesting.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2025
  • In the weeks between Passover and Shavuot, a plague raged amongst the disciples of the great sage Rabbi Akiva and on Lag BaOmer, the dying ceased.
    Rabbi Moishe Kievman, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2025

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