(a.) Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mansfield, 30, who is married with a young child, is something of a polymath.
(2) Imagine the frustration of the likes of the Australian general Sir John Monash , engineer and polymath, who advocated of infantry, artillery, aircraft and tanks and was told he “lacked dash”.
(3) Photograph: Allstar One, two, swashbuckle my shoe: history's bow tie spins in horror as 15th-century polymath is recast as wisecrackin' action hunk.
(4) But she's not bad as the partner of an Iraq-bound soldier in Timeless: perhaps a bit plummier than you might expect a squaddie's wife required to live with her irascible great-grandmother in a tiny house to be, but certainly nothing like the disaster the world has come to expect from supermodels demonstrating their polymath abilities.
(5) Lord Beaverbrook, Daniel Defoe and even Cicero were brought before the Leveson inquiry by the UK's polymath-in-chief Michael Gove.
(6) I followed the Nuit de l'Instant (Night of the Instant) mystery trail that ran earlier this month and found myself first in a tiny studio lined with neon oil paintings and then in a disused bar watching a bleak silent film about Italians to the recorded improvised music of that polymath Vincent Gallo.
(7) But the former Southampton University economics graduate is also something of a polymath.
(8) She cited major upcoming BBC4 documentary series by polymath Jonathan Miller, on atheism, and another about the key role light plays in the visual arts and media.
(9) Before he became a world-renowned activist, Ken was "a true polymath", she says.
(10) The comedian, actor, novelist, critic, quiz show host and polymath made the suggestion after seeing a "blitz of Brits" making their presence felt at this year's Golden Globes and Oscars.
(11) This former residence of politician, polymath and billionaire hoarder the 17th Marquis of Cerralbo, has resplendent rooms jammed with ancient artefacts, priceless masters, oriental curios and an armoury worthy of a warlord.
(12) This leads into an anecdote that Wallace Shawn , the polymath who appears winningly as a cameo in The Double , told Ayoade about the academic Noam Chomsky .
(13) James Fallows , the polymathic writer for The Atlantic , expressed a growing distrust of the company's "experiments" in A Problem Google Has Created for Itself : I have already downloaded the Android version of Google's new app for collecting notes, photos, and info, called Google Keep… Here's the problem: Google now has a clear enough track record of trying out, and then canceling, "interesting" new software that I have no idea how long Keep will be around… Until I know a reason that it's in Google's long-term interest to keep Keep going, I'm not going to invest time in it or lodge info there.
(14) Thompson's husband, Greg Wise, who will produce the film and play the part of Ruskin, has been fascinated by the life of the eminent polymath since his time as an architecture student in Edinburgh: "He is a pin-up for many artists and was Gandhi's hero too.
(15) A polymath who plays the saxophone and piano, Maradiaga has trained as a pilot and speaks six languages.
(16) Yep, the meteorological puns and weather-based wordplay were out in force last week with the news that street poet, rapper, playwright and impossible-to-pigeonhole polymath Kate Tempest had achieved an unprecedented double.
(17) The designer, engineer and polymath Buckminster Fuller declared that the "industrial equation", ie the fact technology enables mankind to do "more with less", would soon eliminate the very notion of labour altogether.
(18) He pays his tax, doesn’t have a 9-to-5 job and, along with his five polymathic flatmates, shuns public transport, preferring to ride a bike.
(19) Next, acting the polymath, displaying the diversity of his interests by applying financial market reasoning to the transfer market.
(20) He rapidly emerged as a journalistic polymath whose career ranged from covering the Troubles in Northern Ireland and five years as the Observer's Washington correspondent to writing about politics for Punch, and wine and television criticism for the Spectator.
Polymathy
Definition:
(n.) The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of learning.