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.
Robert Simonson, reporting on that dismissal in Playbill, said that Mr. Feingold’s writing was known for “erudition and understanding of theater history, both ancient and modern, and how current plays fit in with that continuum.”
From New York Times
The Oscar-winning screenplay he co-wrote for “Shakespeare in Love” translates to the screen this gift for turning erudition into high jinks.
From Los Angeles Times
A noted raconteur and a popular speaker, Mr. O’Doherty bore his erudition and polymathic talents as lightly as the Irish lilt that remained in his voice, even decades after he settled in Manhattan.
From New York Times
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