Renaissance man
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The Renaissance man, the father of the modern age, can claim all of us as successors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
Maurice Sr. was both jack-of-all-trades and working-class Renaissance man, for a time alternating roles as nightclub bouncer and drum-playing orchestra leader, Nurse said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
Smart, worldly and insatiably curious, Mr. Ramaswamy is about as close as you get to a Renaissance man in our times.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
Mr. Mangiarotti, who died in 2012 at 91, was something of a Renaissance man — architect, urban planner, designer and engineer.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
He was, in truth, more of a Renaissance man than a modern scientist, and still thought in terms of vital forces, an abstract conception of perfection and spirits that kept the body alive.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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