Sentence examples for relatively unversed from inspiring English sources

A corollary of these conjectures about their social origins is that Mo Di and many of his early followers -- including both the Mozi writers and their primary audience -- may have had little formal education and would have been relatively unversed in the classical Chinese written language.

Those unversed in modernist poetry might presume it a line from Hughes's Crow.

He wants nothing but the best for his nephew, an erring neophyte unversed in the finer methods of temptation.

I've rarely met anybody so unversed in the niceties of everyday life.

She screamed and kicked, and squeezed her cuddly wolf like a woman not unversed in the art of suffocation.

Both have provoked a level of antagonism that to anyone unversed in the ways of poets would seem extraordinary.

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Roosevelt did express doubts about Wallace's political abilities, considering him "too aloof" and unversed in the art of greasing the wheels.

Veteran trawlermen would rip off any green scarves or hats worn by young deck-hands unversed in local lore.

We gave a queen whose age and whose education alike secure her being unversed in the old maxims and the corrupt practices of courts and cabinets.

For those unversed in music theory it may be worth explaining with a little more specificity what 12-tone music is and how it came about.