How to Use Renaissance man in a Sentence
Renaissance man
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The Renaissance man Reed still believes in the Warriors, not just in his prose.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
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That would be enough for most people, but not this Renaissance man.
—Ruth Reichl, Town & Country, 26 Oct. 2022
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Joseph’s son, Mike Gatto, told Dateline that his father was a true Renaissance man.
—Rachel Legon, NBC News, 17 July 2023
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Dallas jazz trumpeter and artist Dennis González left a legacy as a Renaissance man.
—Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2022
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Pliny was like a Renaissance man a millennium and a half before the Renaissance.
—Tom Siegfried, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
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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
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Trivium’s Matt Heafy has continued to shine as a ‘Renaissance man’ of today’s heavy music scene.
—Quentin Singer, Forbes, 2 May 2022
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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
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Lawyer, actor, and socialist activist Paul Robeson was a stylish Renaissance man.
—Malaika Jabali, Essence, 12 Sep. 2022
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Because of his varied interests, Mr. Shannon was often called a Renaissance man.
—Baltimore Sun, 4 Sep. 2022
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Aidan Turner portrays the original Renaissance man in this new historical drama.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2022
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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
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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
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