erudite
Example Sentences
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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.
His intrepid imagination now shifts to the basic unit of all life; his erudite, panoramic new book, “The Song of the Cell,” delves into the galaxies that blaze around and within us.
From Seattle Times
The Upper Manhattan medieval museum filled with Gothic arches and stained-glass windows supplies an atmospheric setting for this erudite academic thriller.
From Washington Post
“They thought we were so slow — that we were so stupid — that we would elect the lowest caricature of a stereotypical broken Black man as opposed to somebody who is educated and erudite and focused.”
From New York Times
Cholly Knickerbocker noted that the “erudite baron,” his baroness and “their lovely daughter Brigit” — a common misspelling that persisted in the press — “entertained a distinguished group of ambassadors, ministers and socialites-without-portfolio.”
From Seattle Times
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