Sentence examples for man of affairs from inspiring English sources

Locke was a scholar, physician, and man of affairs, well-experienced in politics and business.

He is a man of affairs, of the soundest common sense and good judgment.

Almost everything about this portrait would have been acceptable in a Victorian portrait of a man of affairs.

He has used the platform of a reality television show, NBC's "The Apprentice," to burnish his pop-culture image as a formidable man of affairs.

But there was little chance of Freeth becoming a man of affairs: from a young age, he had fallen under the spell of the water.

Donald Cox was a man of true warmth and wit, a man of affairs who brought great practical experience to the arts institutions with which he was associated.

Clare Luce was a renowned beauty and man-of-affairs (a feminist, she stoutly resisted the stylistic effronteries of she-speech).

Previous historians had been public figures and men of affairs.

Of course, there have always been men of affairs wise enough to see past the current dogma.

The leading reviewers, who were once men of letters or men of affairs, from Hazlitt and Macaulay to Ford Madox Ford and Orwell, are now for the most part professors.

The Regents were mostly prominent men of affairs; and in this respect members of the Board in 1949 were no different from those who had served previously.