‘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.’.‘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.’.‘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.’.‘An autodidact and a polymath, Wallace studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects.’.‘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.’’.‘In high school, I studied American history with a nineteenth-century-style polymath who assigned us readings from Richard Hofstadter.’.‘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.’.‘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.’.‘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.’.‘What I didn't know at the time was he was also a polymath, with a wide range of interests and a photographic memory.’.‘James Lighthill was indeed a brilliant scientist but he was also a polymath, with knowledge, insight and enthusiasm for the arts and humanities.’.These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'polymath.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2021 Tiffany is a modern polymath: a longtime tech aficionado who founded the Webby awards, filmmaker, and writer. Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, 21 Oct. 2021 Unlike the great British polymath and design reformer William Morris, Howard was not a socialist. 2021 The geodesic dome is only the most famous work the polymath came up with.
25), and the K-pop boy band Monsta X plays Radio City Music Hall (Jan. 25), the noise-pop duo Best Coast hits Brooklyn Steel (Jan. 2021 There are quirkier shows elsewhere: the experimental polymath Genesis Owusu energizes Bowery Ballroom (Jan. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2021 The most nominations, 11, went to musical polymath Jon Batiste. Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021 The Victorian-era polymath artist became famous for his illustrations of anthropomorphized felines in bow ties and bonnets, having tea parties and playing tennis. 2021 Young was an English polymath who made contributions to a wide range of fields, including music, physiology, medicine, and linguistics.ĭavid Conrads, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct.
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