Sentence examples for he is conversant from inspiring English sources

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.

Educated in Oxford and Columbia, he is conversant in French and can understand Spanish and Mandarin.

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 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.

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.

In the BusinessWeek interview, talking about the "Volcker Rule" to limit the scope and activities of big banks, or about risky leverage or executive compensation, he was conversant and comfortable.

He was conversant in pop culture — the Cure and New Order were particular musical favorites — and thought nothing of wearing in-line skates, his longish hair trailing behind him, as he confronted protesters at a rally outside a conservative event hosted by David and Charles Koch in Palm Springs, Calif., in 2011.

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.