erudite
Example Sentences
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I didn’t want to make an erudite cinematic movie or a referential movie.
From Los Angeles Times
In The Times, critic David Kipen hailed Pynchon’s classic style as “Olympian, polymathic, erudite, antically funny, often beautiful, at times gross, at others incredibly romantic, never afraid to challenge or even confound.”
From Los Angeles Times
Compton is impossibly charming, effortfully erudite, and enjoys the status that comes with his stardom.
From Los Angeles Times
Although his public persona was quite vivid—convivial, erudite but unpretentious, articulate, and unfailingly charming—he did not imbue his buildings with a distinctive graphic sensibility.
It is something he observed in his wife’s grandfather, a lifelong reader and raconteur who retained his gentle voice and erudite air long after the stories in him were lost to Alzheimer’s disease.
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