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He said he was conversant with Catholic theology because as a young man he had begun training to become a Capuchin Franciscan priest, but left after he discerned on a retreat that he was gay.

In his letters (four volumes of which have been published so far), he shows that he is conversant with the entire range of modern fiction and poetry.

But it's impossible to read more than a few pages of Purity without concluding that Franzen is as familiar with the internet as the rest of us – that, despite the wariness he has expressed about technology, he is conversant in not just Twitter and Facebook, but also pet videos, "those revenge-on-the-cheating-boyfriend websites", and online pornography.

He was conversant in college physics before he was 11 years old, was a "brilliant" violin player, and received high marks in Latin and Greek.

Mr. Reagan was a puckish booster for Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Roosevelt (he admired F.D.R.'s dramatic style, not his ideology), and he was conversant with the ideas of Russell Kirk and some other conservative thinkers of his day, which he used to buttress his preconceptions about big government.

Mr. Romney had a narrower political task on Monday night: to show he was conversant in the subject matter and to reassure a war-weary public that he would not plunge the country into new conflicts.

Though it is impossible to determine exactly when Darwin became a transmutationist, the evidence suggests that he was conversant with the transmutational ideas of Lamarck and others and testing ("experimenting" with) them before he received a copy of Lyell's Principles of Geology, vol. 2, in November 1832, in which Lyell describes and disputes Lamarck's theory.

He was conversant with Chinese culture, at least up to a point.

Besides English, he was conversant in Hebrew, Arabic, French and German.

A man of great intellectual curiosity, he was conversant with such diverse topics as natural history, medicine, astronomy, and chemistry and was also an adept in several handicrafts.

He remained conversant with the intricacies of deterrence theology to a degree that critics found daunting and antiwar zealots found disconcerting.