How to Use Renaissance man in a Sentence

Renaissance man

noun

• The Renaissance man Reed still believes in the Warriors, not just in his prose.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
• That would be enough for most people, but not this Renaissance man.
  — Ruth Reichl, Town & Country, 26 Oct. 2022
• Joseph’s son, Mike Gatto, told Dateline that his father was a true Renaissance man.
  — Rachel Legon, NBC News, 17 July 2023
• Dallas jazz trumpeter and artist Dennis González left a legacy as a Renaissance man.
  — Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2022
• Pliny was like a Renaissance man a millennium and a half before the Renaissance.
  — Tom Siegfried, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
• Take James Weldon Johnson, a recurring character in the show and a true Renaissance man.
  — Camellia Burris, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
• After a time, Patterson’s play-it-down-the-middle approach feels less like the remembrances of a Renaissance man and more like evasive, unassertive hedging.
  — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 6 June 2022
• Trivium’s Matt Heafy has continued to shine as a ‘Renaissance man’ of today’s heavy music scene.
  — Quentin Singer, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• In life, Bologne was nothing short of a Parisian celebrity, an 18th-century Renaissance man equally accomplished in the fields of music, fencing and war.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2022
• Lawyer, actor, and socialist activist Paul Robeson was a stylish Renaissance man.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 12 Sep. 2022
• Because of his varied interests, Mr. Shannon was often called a Renaissance man.
  — Baltimore Sun, 4 Sep. 2022
• Aidan Turner portrays the original Renaissance man in this new historical drama.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2022
• There is perhaps little in common with the Italian Renaissance man and a finance major with a master’s degree in sports management from the University of Georgia who, upon graduation, accepted a job at an accounting firm.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2024
• One by one, the litany of speakers including family members, a lawyer, a former town first selectman, a firefighter, poets, educators and environmentalists, spoke to honor Leff, a man described by friends as a Renaissance man.
  — Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2022
• New defensive coordinator Bill McGovern, whose resume is eerily reminiscent of that of his predecessor, reveals himself as a Renaissance man running an aggressive scheme.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024