How To Use Polymath In A Sentence
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This new biography will revive interest in an eccentric and rare polymath of the last century.
Times, Sunday Times
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Actually I think you will find that the word you are looking for is 'polymath'.
Army Rumour Service
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Mentoring has been key to Eschenbach's art; he's built up a long list of artists whom he has "discovered" or championed, and with whom he regularly performs: Fleming; the enfant-terrible pianist Lang Lang (whose debut Eschenbach led at Ravinia); the controversial pianist and polymath Tzimon Barto; the star baritone Matthias Goerne (whom Eschenbach has often accompanied in lieder recitals); and the violinist Jennifer Koh.
Can Christoph Eschenbach and the National Symphony Orchestra give each other a fresh start?
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The ostensible purpose of our meeting was to interview the polymath about the decoupage he assembled for Jaguar's party celebrating the 50th anniversary of the E-Type.
A Royal Pronouncement
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In my view, however, the wizened polymath did well.
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A Persian polymath, Avicenna (a widely-used Greek version of his name Abū 'Alī al-Husayn ibn) was a leading physician and philosopher who penned over 450 volumes, of which almost half have survived.
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A prodigious polymath, he wrote on subjects as varied as grammar and gout, ethics and eczema, and was highly regarded in his lifetime as a philosopher as well as a doctor.
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I almost went for polymath or opsimath, but they were taken but not used.
Onynimity
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I would like to contribute a few more based on my book experience over the last year about what a next generation, "polymath" analyst firm should aim for
Deal architect
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Raskin's CV reads something like a masterclass in being a polymath: he was an accomplished musician, programmer and designer.
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Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Judith Shulevitz gushed, ‘Novelists, in short, have become our public intellectuals - our polymaths, our geographers, our scholars of the material world.’
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The word "polymath" teeters somewhere between Leonardo da Vinci and Stephen Fry.
Mental multivitamin
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A modest man and a true polymath.
Times, Sunday Times
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BinaryWang: He who seize the right moment, is the right man. ---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and polymath.
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What I didn't know at the time was he was also a polymath, with a wide range of interests and a photographic memory.
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Eric is also a polymath ( "he mastered the steepest matters in half an afternoon") who studies Einstein's special theory in both German and English, reads poetry, contemplates the Middle English roots of the word "hangnail" and works out faithfully (a universal trait of the protagonists of cheap thrillers).
All Day in a Rich Guy's Limo Makes for a Very Silly Novel
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Some organic growers practice the "bio-dynamic" principles of the late Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian polymath, founder of "anthroposophy" and the Waldorf Schools, and who in 1924 delivered lectures in Koberwitz, Silesia, on agricultural theory.
Intelligent Travel Blog
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He was a true polymath and at the same time a virtuoso storyteller.
Times, Sunday Times
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In high school, I studied American history with a nineteenth-century-style polymath who assigned us readings from Richard Hofstadter.
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This mystical attraction to words would lead him not only to become a linguistic polymath, but to invent his own private language, with its own alphabet, which he used in writing his diary.
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The polymath Anthony Burgess was on hand to supply the English subtitles, preserving the dialogue's alexandrine form.
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Ireland used to call a "polymath," for he professed at one time or another, in various universities, logic, metaphysics, Greek, and finally natural history.
Science and Morals and Other Essays
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His ebullient personality is a vivid reminder of the polymath of past times.
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For as long as there has been a publishing industry, there have been used books, that supposedly quaint world of polymaths and antiquarians poking about musty, cluttered stores for titles few readers would know.
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True, the man we knew was physically frail, but the walls of books (a true polymath, he had mastered a dizzying array of languages), the enthusiasms, and the blithe cantankerousness were all things we had experienced.
Postcard from America: On the Road, Alan Ansen, part one : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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He was a polymath and was offered a history scholarship before opting for medicine.
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In an age of polymaths who mastered all the disciplines, knew many languages, and wrote more than any modern can read, chronology, with its varied contents and technical difficulties, seemed the essence of scholarship.
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These polymaths often resented their lack of recognition from specialist professional academics, and compensated by seeking political success.
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Moreau's art is a reassemblage of the memory and the tricks of the memory, as thorough and as convolute as Proust's vast quest for a half-lost past that was, likewise, the lifework of a polymath spellbound by beauty.
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He is either a polymath or an extremely thorough researcher.
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Or are his polymath passions pursued just for their own sake?
Times, Sunday Times
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He was typically hands-on with the venture, teaching classes until recently and sporting the title professor of polymathy.
Stereo Magnate Harman Dies
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But the great polymath should know better, having been a darts commentator himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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This new biography will revive interest in an eccentric and rare polymath of the last century.
Times, Sunday Times
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From my friend Henry Gee (whose highly recommended blog is The End of the Pier Show, the show in question being Henry's many lives as science editor, fiction and non-fiction book author, palaenotologist, SF supremo, polymath, father and Person Who Lives in Norfolk These Days): Ansible 240 (July 2007)
Writing
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Is there a polymath out there who might tackle a comparative study of all three?
Christianity Today
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I thank them because if I was not the real homeowner they just stopped someone robbing my house. polymath
White House says Obama does not regret Gates comments
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The word "polymath" was invented for a man like Nathan Myhrvold, who earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics by age 23, studied with Stephen Hawking, made millions as Microsoft's chief technology officer, and has lectured on topics as diverse as barbecuing and paleontology.
‘These Problems Can Be Solved’
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An autodidact and a polymath, he studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects.
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His portrait of this elusive, intensely private genius describes Faraday's links with painters and poets, polymaths and mystics.
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The observation, while apt, suggests a dichotomy in this cultural polymath that does not necessarily exist.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a century of eclectic geniuses, Casanova was a supreme polymath.
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Is there a polymath out there who might tackle a comparative study of all three?
Christianity Today
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I'm a brilliant polymath, a clocked genius breasting the tape as an expert in philosophy, literature, sociology, quantum theory, a virtuoso on all stringed and keyed instruments, a capable visual artist, and an obscenely degenerate chain-smoking drunk!
Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0
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An autodidact and a polymath, Wallace studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects.
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This new biography will revive interest in an eccentric and rare polymath of the last century.
Times, Sunday Times
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The same day's paper features a story "Is this a work of art or just any old iron?" about how the writer, broadcaster, doctor and polymath Sir Jonathan Miller asked a passing scrap metal merchant to remove a rusting bath from his front garden -- only to find his three metal sculptures had also been over-enthusiastically taken.
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For as long as there has been a publishing industry, there have been used books, that supposedly quaint world of polymaths and antiquarians poking about musty, cluttered stores for titles few readers would know.
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The polymath Doyle tried to kill off Holmes at the turn of the century, but public outcry encouraged the author to resuscitate the archetypal detective in 1901's The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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In short, "said Mr. Polymathers, re-poising himself upon his rickety stool," I might describe myself as an unmatriculated candidate undergraduate of the University of Dublin.
Strangers at Lisconnel
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I took heart from an interview with Thomas Stoppard where somebody said to him, ‘You're such a polymath,’ and he said, ‘Yes, for about three months.’
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These, however, were evidently not the most prized portion of Mr. Polymathers's library, though he displayed them with some complacency, reading out here and there a sonorous "furrin" phrase, at which his audience said, "More power," and "Your sowl to glory," and the like.
Strangers at Lisconnel
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Professor D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, last of the great Victorian polymaths, author inter alia of the classic allometric study On
Sir James W. Black - Autobiography
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One of Fred Pawlicki's friends called him a "polymath," which is just a fancy way of saying he's a pretty smart guy who's done a lot of different things.
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James Lighthill was indeed a brilliant scientist; but he was also a polymath, with knowledge, insight and enthusiasm for the arts and humanities.
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Paul Hindemith was a musical polymath - composer, conductor, violist, educator, and musicologist.
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There is a similar irony in the fact that he was one of the last great polymaths - not in the frivolous sense of having a wide general knowledge, but in the deeper sense of one who is a citizen of the whole world of intellectual inquiry.
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This, Zimmer claims, was the achievement of the group of virtuosi - highly talented polymaths more or less trapped in Oxford during the civil war and the Cromwellian republic of the mid-17th century.
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If you are one of the benighted majority, you should know that he was one of those Victorian Scottish polymaths; a poet, theologian, and geologist of some genius.
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Moreau's art is a reassemblage of the memory and the tricks of the memory, as thorough and as convolute as Proust's vast quest for a half-lost past that was, likewise, the lifework of a polymath spellbound by beauty.
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A prodigy and a polymath, he first came to notice as ‘the bad boy of music’ in the Twenties Paris avant-garde, associated with Pound.
