Renaissance man

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Recent Examples of Renaissance man Songwriting was merely one aspect to the Renaissance man, who was also a Golden Globe-winning actor, Golden Gloves boxer, Rhodes scholar, author, U.S. Army veteran, pilot, and onetime record-label janitor. Stephen L. Betts, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024 Though Malcolm was no longer in the Nation of Islam, its members had a dress code combatting stereotypical images of Black people. 04 Lawyer, actor, and socialist activist Paul Robeson was a stylish Renaissance man. Malaika Jabali, Essence, 7 Sep. 2024 Today, he might be called a polymath or a Renaissance man. Harriet Quick, theweek, 17 July 2024 After all, the 72-year-old Hoosier is quite the Renaissance man, dabbling in film, musical theater, painting and more between album releases. Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for Renaissance man
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Noun
  • The Grammy-winning polymath announced his Based on a True Story Summer Tour on Monday (March 17), which will hit major cities in the U.K. and Europe this summer.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci observed tree growth and came up with his own mathematical rule for painting trees.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Gabriel has long funneled his capacious intellect and empathy into music.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
  • His omnivorous intellect went from one topic to another, exploring them in minute detail.
    Ilan Stavans, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Creative wiz Michael Lasswell is already hard at work on the set design, and of course, iconic stage talent Steve Scott is the artistic director at Dunes Summer Theatre.
    Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
  • At the time, Barnett was a rising star in the speakers’ circuit because of her son Jacob, a physics wiz with autism who made headlines for excelling at school when experts doubted his abilities.
    Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Cordless Vacuum with the ‘Power of a Dyson’ Is Down to $80 Today — but Not for Long The towels are on sale in multiple colors, including neutrals, pastels, and bright shades, such as dark gray, aqua blue, and yellow, so one is bound to match your bathroom decor.
    Toni Sutton, People.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • And Delroy Lindo as piano and harmonica blues musician Delta Slim.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Examination of the brain showed microscopic findings of advanced stage Alzheimer's disease.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez , Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • The fact that the doomed king and his armed guards need to escape through a secret passage that just so happens to cut through my jail cell seems a little too convenient for my brain to accept without warning sirens going off.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Hashing things out with his tech wizard brother-in-law Maury (a shaggy Guy Pearce), Karsh wonders if ecological protesters or religious groups or competitors are upset with his global expansion plans, which include a lava field in Iceland.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
  • In a fantastic fairy kingdom, a young outcast named Lala challenges an oppressive wizard to restore harmony between fairies and humans.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • And back in 2010, a MoMA retrospective featured a catalogue in which Wiseman’s work was praised by artists and intellectuals outside the documentary realm.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Iranian artists and intellectuals tend to rely on subtlety, embedding meaning within layers of metaphor and covert language: a necessity in a place where direct expression often comes at great risk.
    Rebecca Ruth Gould, JSTOR Daily, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Soft, soothing shades like dusty blues, sage greens and warm neutrals can help create a tranquil mood.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • That program including opening the mouth to the ocean, restoring tidal wetlands, creating new endangered bird breeding habitat and preserving the surrounding coastal sage scrub habitat vital for endangered songbirds, such as the Belding’s savannah sparrow.
    Jeff Regan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2025

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