man of the world
Example Sentences
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“He was becoming a man of the world as a young guy,” Colangelo said in a recent telephone interview from his home in Phoenix.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2020
He’s a man of the world, of humanity, he says.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2017
Lucas the producer, a man of the world, is a man of the word.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2016
Like his model St. Francis, Bergoglio was a man of the world before his ordination at age 32, having first held jobs as a lab technician and a discotheque bouncer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2015
Root was a notorious bon vivant, whom Louis Sullivan once described as “a man of the world, of the flesh, and considerably of the devil.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
