erudition

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• Longtime Washington Post sports columnist Thomas Boswell announced his retirement Friday, ending a decorated 52-year career in which he chronicled the biggest moments in Washington and national sports with enthusiasm and erudition.

• As you can see, there is plenty of erudition to go with the laughs.

• But he shares with Foster Wallace a gift for exactitude, erudition, and moral concern.

• Iyer employs a terrific combination of erudition and absurdity that calls to mind the great postmodernists.

• Anderson carries his erudition lightly, but there's enough scholarship there to make an academic proud.

• I respect Rabbi Yosef's erudition and his brave and sometimes iconoclastic halakhic (Jewish legal) writings.

• But it was neither his talents as a diplomatist, nor his remarkable mind, nor his solid erudition, which made Nicot immortal.

• Charity had picked up enough of her companion's erudition to understand what had attracted him to the house.

• A good man, and a scholar of rare erudition, he possessed nevertheless the true temper of a bigot.

• There is no erudition, no sublime thought, nor any production which surpasses the ordinary capacities of the human mind.

• He was a man of great erudition, and there need be no hesitation in accepting this extraordinary prayer as genuine.