Mr Gunn, a fine and deliberate wordsmith, revered the rhythms of Spenser, Milton and Dante all through his writing career.
He burnished his reputation as a Republican wordsmith working for Dan Coats, a former senator for Indiana.
Balaguer was a poet and wordsmith, and his political resilience sprang largely from that.
On investigation, we find one outstanding wordsmith whose prose decisively influenced the lovely cadences of the King James translation.
As he emerged from the Pointz family home, the tall Philips pointed down at the diminutive wordsmith who was duly marched off to jail.A determined eurosceptic might argue that Tyndale's capture and execution was the first, ghastly example of a pan-European arrest warrant, made possible by an early version of Europol and the Lisbon treaty.
This also reflects the shadow of de Gaulle, who was a prolific wordsmith before he became a resistance hero and politician.
With all his talent as a wordsmith, he was also a gifted cartoonist.
Anne Michaels, a Canadian poet and no mean wordsmith herself, describes "An Equal Stillness" as "a first novel of uncommon power".
Watching Corin Redgrave embody the one-time wordsmith, wit and apparent sexual fetishist Kenneth Tynan is to open one's eyes to a kind of genius that is both scintillating and not a little sad.Richard Nelson's play, adapted in collaboration with Colin Chambers from Tynan's own diaries, has anecdotes to spare, as one might expect, and a degree of pathos which one might not anticipate.
Nick Nicholas, a business analyst from Melbourne, Australia, speaks both Klingon and Esperanto; he is also reputed to be the world's best wordsmith in ultra-logical Lojban.Esperanto is fairly harmonious by neoglossal standards, though splenetic rows sputter between "conlangers", who think made-up tongues are just for fun, and the "auxlangers", who are serious about substituting for English.
Yet Mr Gerson is one of Mr Bush's closest aides the author of his most famous public words over the past seven years and the most influential wordsmith since Ted Sorenson worked magic for John Kennedy.
