In part Sennett's project is to draw some conclusions from a polymathic career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to Basics] Reference

Even the most polymathic, dexterous, open-ended individual is, after all, just one guy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Self-Reliance 2008] Reference

Marsh was not a scientist but, by turns, a congressman, businessman, diplomat, and polymathic scholar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Endangered Environmentalists] Reference

Franklin was a polymathic writer, scientist and soldier who became one of the founding fathers of the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: Obama Is "Incompetent" and the U.S. Is a "Madhouse": An Exclusive Interview With Gore Vidal] Reference

He was also pleased by my branching out into sf critcism and editing, continuing the polymathic tradition of the family.    From Wordnik.com.  [RIP Paul Lawrence Burnham] Reference

Cook and Morton are in some ways typical male jazz fans: polymathic, fanatical, obsessed with outtakes and reissues and obscure Japanese imports.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gender Bending] Reference

If so, you will probably enjoy the writing of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a polymathic gentleman whose new book is called The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Input Needed: Hunting the Black Swan - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Among his closest friends he counts the peripatetic Rory Stewart and the polymathic Alain de Bottom, for whose books he is the living inspiration (including the one on Proust).    From Wordnik.com.  [Being Bret Stephens -- Or Not] Reference

The polymathic German scholar Max Weber (stay with me, Huffpost readers) viewed the entire history of Western religiosity as tending toward, and culminating in, a modern process of disenchantment.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seery: An Egghead's Eggnog Tidings] Reference

You watch every first-run episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” from episode one through one sixty-eight as a diagnosed autodidactic, polymathic sponge and there's no way something doesn't rub off on you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I Write] Reference

He left his company, now called Harman International Industries , in 2007, and had been spending much of his time teaching at the University of Southern California where he was a professor of polymathic study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsweek Buyer Sidney Harman Dead at 92] Reference

But he has succeeded in extending his critique of radical and conservative ideas alike, to the point where he must be accounted the most polymathic, and at the same time the most profound, essayist currently wielding a pen.    From Wordnik.com.  [What’s Left?] Reference

This strikes me less as a promotion of old over young than as strict news over polymathic news-and-culture; establishment credentials over new media skills; and the ever elusive "management skills" and "gravitas" over panache and enthusiasm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Oppenheimer: Dumbest Media Move of the Year So Far?] Reference

Yet a more immediate highlight of the program came when Simon, 69, came out with his guitar and the polymathic string player Mark Stewart here on cello to sing a song he wrote just months after Kennedy's assassination in 1963, "The Sound of Silence.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A grand display] Reference

It is also refreshing, and possibly redemptive, to be reminded of a time when scientists composed poetry as Charles Darwin's polymathic grandfather, Erasmus, did praise of steel and when the idea that agronomy and geology and metallurgy were as vital and as exciting as any of the arts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Revolution Of the Mind] Reference

Stanley L. Jaki (1924-2009) Prolific, polymathic, profound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow] Reference

He is so polymathic as to make an everyday polymath tremble with shame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference

And I say, well, he's actually rather a learned and polymathic fellow, so there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

M.B.A.'s and former management consultants, but nearly everyone's résumé had a polymathic twist.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The polymathic David Foster Wallace was found dead Friday night in his Claremont, California, home by his wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogrunner] Reference

Monday, September 14: Sir Francis Galton - the polymathic scientist and, regrettably, eugenicist - spent a good deal of time trying to create a 'beauty map' of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

Edward Said was one of the great public intellectuals of the twentieth century - prolific, polymathic, principled, and always concerned to link theory to practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [iToot Stream] Reference

Dec 12th 2009, 19: 04 by The Economist | NEW YORK has described Daniel Larison as "a polymathic paleocon young fogey with a scintillating intellect and a scabrous wit.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

Among scholars of freedom, few are more admired than the polymathic Friedrich Hayek, who helped articulate the case for liberty in economics, law, politics, and other disciplines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cato Unbound] Reference

It's not that Chaplin's music is anything out of the ordinary, though it's always impressive to contemplate the man's polymathic genius and consider how many aspects of his work he tackled personally.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories]

And when he's not writing or designing games or directing movies, he's found time to start a blog (jordanmechner. com) in which he muses on any number of subjects that happen to strike his polymathic fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

It is sad to think that the day of the great polymathic student is at an end; that we may, perhaps, never again see a Scaliger, a Haller, or a Humboldt—men who took the whole field of knowledge for their domain and viewed it as from a pinnacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student Life] Reference

He's unraveling the threads of history, exposing the connections, showing us how it all works behind the curtain … but even the awesome polymathic mind of Glenn Beck has missed the one fundamental attribute that connects these historical figures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Green Footballs] Reference

Britain’s New Statesman has called him “the most polymathic of all our contemporary thinkers.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summer Reading] Reference

Beirich continues to use “white nationalist” as a debate-killing pejorative (one of the prolific and polymathic Tanton’s correspondents was Jared Taylor).    From Wordnik.com.  [John Tanton vs. SPLC: Let’s See Some Treason Lobby Letters] Reference

Reviewed by Terry Castle ( "Gender Bending," September 2005) "Cook and Morton are ... polymathic, fanatical, obsessed with outtakes and reissues and obscure Japanese imports.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books in Brief] Reference

Agreed: Leibniz was a polymathic genius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Though you studied law, your life might yet not be a bankrupt evil waste] Reference

Emma has this thing, this almost polymathic ability to shift her attention onto what really matters. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

"white nationalist" as a debate-killing pejorative (one of the prolific and polymathic Tanton's correspondents was.    From Wordnik.com.  [VDARE.com: Blog Articles] Reference

Callaghan, James, British PM, as publican, 130; sunniness of, 130-131; wintry obliviousness of, 130-131; as polymathic footnote, 131; as teen bureaucrat, 131; as declinist, 131; as farmer, 131.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's Who] Reference