Example sentences for: erudite

How can you use “erudite” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's the critics who are in love: Gwyneth Paltrow is gorgeous, Joseph Fiennes is dashing, and the movie is "smart and giddily entertaining" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Fiennes' young Will Shakespeare has an affair with Paltrow's character that becomes the basis for Romeo and Juliet . Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman's screenplay is full of amusing references to Shakespeare plays, but is not so erudite that it won't please crowds, and the dialogue "percolates with bubbly finesse" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's David Denby puts a slight damper on the general festivities: He says the film starts out muddled, though it livens up by the end.

  • Critics applaud Huston's wicked performance and the renovations to the tale--this Cinderella is erudite, resourceful, and independent.

  • In his characteristically diverting and obscurely erudite way, Pennington describes this discrepancy between public perception and magnitude of risk by referring to an article on railway accidents published in 1859 by one Dionysius Lardner.

  • And he pays his readers the ultimate compliment of writing as though he knows they're capable of getting his erudite cosmic jokes.

  • Few writers of school tales were as erudite as this shy scholar, who once wrote a Bunter tale in Latin, which was printed in an issue of The Times Educational Supplement in 1960.


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