(n.) One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Equipment Let's be honest: good coffee depends heavily on equipment, which is why so many connoisseurs generally prefer to go out to a cafe with huge, shiny professional machines and baristas who have studied their craft in Milan and Melbourne, while their own over-complicated, underpowered espresso-makers gather dust in the kitchen.
(2) "It was part of his religion of nothing but the best – not for the elitist connoisseur but nothing but the best for the whole populace."
(3) Even connoisseurs of virtual rage had seen nothing like this since hundreds of online readers monstered a Guardian gap-year blog by a naive, teenaged student, Max Gogarty : a "tsunami of hate", his father called it.
(4) (A connoisseur, he also envies Apple stores where, as he put it, the cash register follows the customer.)
(5) The connoisseurs have assured me that the quality equals the best European microbreweries.
(6) That word "connoisseur" suggests grand authorities laying down the law, yet Penny argues that the connoisseur's eye can make great paintings live.
(7) Technically, on his school record, he's one of the people Grayling would class as "no great connoisseur", and yet his easy use of a whole range of legal terms suggested quite an advanced understanding of the process.
(8) But the county is not a destination stop for connoisseurs of political animus.
(9) Photograph: Alamy If you aren’t put off by a high density of boutique moustaches and pedantic coffee connoisseurs, Stoneybatter is a worthwhile deviation from Temple Bar, Grafton Street and the other well-trodden tourist zones.
(10) O’Farrell told the commission that he was no “wine connoisseur” but that he was certain he would have remembered receiving the bottle.
(11) Connoisseurs of British indecision will greet Sir Howard Davies's announcement on Tuesday as an all-time, blue-chip, 24-carat masterpiece of the genre.
(12) (As any Bond connoisseur will know, Spectre is the toweringly evil Special Executive for counter-intelligence, terrorism, revenge and extortion, run on a freelance basis by kitten stroking Ernst Stavro Blofeld, which first popped up in the Thunderball novel in 1961.)
(13) "Our politicians are heroes," joked Edmund Cocquyt, a Flemish connoisseur of bars who is making an inventory of every pub in Flanders.
(14) Connoisseurs of accountability may be intrigued to note that those who pay the piper are most able to call the tunes when they are within earshot, like voters to MPs.
(15) We can never know, but it sure seems like only a handful of connoisseurs read through them.
(16) Assembled with guidance from beer writer Zac Avery, the Attic's list of US, German and UK beers (from breweries such as Bristol's Arbor, Kernel, Hardknott, Magic Rock, Thornbridge) will bring a tear of joy to the eye of any craft beer connoisseur.
(17) Historically, proto-hipsters have been connoisseurs – people who deviate from the norm.
(18) Billroth who laid the foundation of modern abdominal surgery by performing his pioneer operations was also an excellent musician and connoisseur of the arts.
(19) In the face of daily threats of suicide and self-harm, the guards struggle as amateur psychologists and social workers become connoisseurs of despair.
(20) It will be a fight for connoisseurs of tack, of which there is no shortage at any given time.
Erudite
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the grounds of the reported paediatric cases, the erudition in childhood is compared with the more common form in the adult, and is found to be much less linked with diabetes mellitus and to have a far better prognosis, with practically no mortality.
(2) For real will-this-do illustrating, look no further than conjoined twins Tip and Tap , although they admittedly boast a certain erstaz charm not seen post- Pique (the much-maligned Goleo VI and Pille the Erudite Ball apart).
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(4) Described by Econsultancy as “erudite and iconoclastic”, he was recognised as tech entrepreneur of the year at the 2016 UK Business Awards.
(5) A low cultural level was prevalent among males, whereas females demonstrated good erudition.
(6) For Juan Gabriel Vásquez , among the most inventive and erudite of Colombia's emerging generation of novelists, the assassination was the "defining episode of our history – our own JFK".
(7) Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman described Entwistle as "clever, erudite, a man, critically, who reads books, a man with a sense of humour and a great degree of irreverence, not least about the BBC.
(8) "Oh man, no, this guy's an erudite, he's not a boxer."
(9) On the pitch and on camera for five days, nuances, airtime and erudite analysts make it impossible to obscure errors, the role of captain is more pronounced that in any sport.
(10) With his receding hairline, grey jacket and lean, thoughtful face, Thomas has a professorial air, delivering smoothly erudite monologues in a voice rather like Vincent Cassel's.
(11) As erudite as he was rude, Kenneth Williams is now remembered as the author of a bleak and illuminating diary and not just for his saucy anecdotes and Carry On films.
(12) Khadzhimurad asked the most wide-ranging questions and seemed to trust my erudition.
(13) In the picture, as he leans down towards an apparently surprised Castro, he comes across as he did in his speech as the only world leader capable of stepping up to an occassion whose historic weight he himself eruditely assessed - comparing Mandela rightly not only with Gandhi and Martin Luther King but also with Abraham Lincoln and America's Founding Fathers.
(14) His great book Mimesis, published in Berne in 1946 but written while Auerbach was a wartime exile teaching Romance languages in Istanbul, was meant to be a testament to the diversity and concreteness of the reality represented in western literature from Homer to Virginia Woolf; but reading the 1951 essay one senses that, for Auerbach, the great book he wrote was an elegy for a period when people could interpret texts philologically, concretely, sensitively, and intuitively, using erudition and an excellent command of several languages to support the kind of understanding that Goethe advocated for his understanding of Islamic literature.
(15) Learned, erudite, eloquent, witty and self-effacing about his sharp-minded crossword-setting skill – he was all of those and more.
(16) "I have to say I often find him erudite and he sends me to sleep when he speaks but tonight I'm really impressed.
(17) 12 min: The match ball, having been mindlessly kicked in the face Goleo VI style, is jiggered, rather like domestic victim Pille the Erudite Ball.
(18) Described as erudite and enthusiastic, Entwistle also has a tendency for corporate speak, as revealed in an email outlining changes to the BBC Knowledge commissioning team last year which was gleefully picked up by Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow .
(19) The single is taken from his forthcoming album, the more eruditely titled Divine Comedy, possibly inspired by the words Dante said appeared across the gates of Hell: Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
(20) This is, after all, an institution that has chosen for centuries to communicate with its followers via erudite documents written in Latin, which must be first translated and then interpreted for us, the faithful in the pew.