erudition
Example Sentences
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His astonishing erudition encouraged him to tread where few playwrights before him had dared to go.
From Los Angeles Times
Being so multivarious in its effects and all but ubiquitous in human history, wind is a convenient vehicle for a writer known for charming prolixity and relaxed erudition.
But like Simon, I worry I am being too harsh in my judgments: because this is an illuminating book, written with exceeding wit and erudition.
From Washington Post
While his influences included everything from “Huckleberry Finn” to the Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of images of grotesque reality, little of this erudition called attention to itself in his fiction.
From New York Times
Perhaps no other creature has been invested with such contradictory meanings across so many different cultures — as a protective spirit, a totem of erudition and an omen of death.
From New York Times
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