Renaissance man
Example Sentences
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The Renaissance man, the father of the modern age, can claim all of us as successors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
But it’s actually a good fit for the Texas native and musical Renaissance man.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
Now, the composer Joseph Boulogne would be hailed as a Renaissance man: artist, athlete, intellectual, soldier.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
Smart, worldly and insatiably curious, Mr. Ramaswamy is about as close as you get to a Renaissance man in our times.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
He was, in truth, more of a Renaissance man than a modern scientist, and still thought in terms of vital forces, an abstract conception of perfection and spirits that kept the body alive.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
