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Renaissance man
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  • "I prefer the term renaissance man," Clyde said as he picked up his magazine again, which, I saw now, was a copy of Gourmet.†  (source)
  • He was the classic Renaissance man: he spoke four languages, spent a year studying at the London School of Economics, and had paid his way through school with a baseball scholarship.†  (source)
  • Every mode of violent death available to Renaissance man, including a lye pit, land mines, a trained falcon with envenom'd talons, is employed.†  (source)
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  • One would have to be a Renaissance man of letters, a verbal dandy, a Gongorist, a Marinist, a fop of the estilo culto, to endow the disciplines of reading and writing with such exaggerated educational importance and imagine that intellectual night reigned where such skills were lacking.†  (source)
  • So Luther was also a typical Renaissance man?†  (source)
  • The ideal became what we call the Renaissance man, a man of universal genius embracing all aspects of life, art, and science.†  (source)
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