Sentence examples for Thoroughly conversant from inspiring English sources
Thoroughly conversant with Latin and Greek writers, a competent textual critic, and a prolific composer of Latin verse, Scaliger was chiefly interested in developing an understanding and critical evaluation of the ancients.
The ancient language of Geʿez had by now lost its vigour and became a liturgical language in which few people were thoroughly conversant.
Translations of the great Greek and Roman authors were read as avidly as the newspapers, and every man of quality made it his business to be thoroughly conversant with the principles of Classic architecture.
March 26 2015 A rough-and-ready tenor player thoroughly conversant with the formative styles of the swing-to-bop saxophone masters, Tabackin is also a silken-toned flutist with a virtuosic bent.
He began writing short stories, one of which, Rashomon, was published in a university magazine when he was 17. Thoroughly conversant with classical European literature, Akutagawa was a devotee of the finely turned style of Edo-period Japanese literature.
By airing the roots of his predilections, Gowdy, like so many post-Freudian authors before her, insists on a psychologically driven series of actions that are not always as subtle as they're meant to be to a readership thoroughly conversant with notions of youthful trauma and arrested development.
(I'm conversant, but Karen isn't).
In fact, Mr. Gatti seems conversant in all things Wagner.
