Sentence examples for versatile figures from inspiring English sources

Allen was considered one of the most versatile figures in his sport.

The 40-year-old Mr. Storr is one of the most versatile figures in the art world.

Architect, industrial designer, writer, editor, painter —Giò Ponti, who died in 1979, was one of the design world's most versatile figures.

"Both versatile figures who are never not going to be relevant, never not going to be vibrant and never not going to be plugged into culture across the world in way that resonates".

Mr. Smith, a painter, dropped out of the generational story early — he is barely mentioned in the catalog and there is none of his work in this Met show — but Mr. Goldstein, who was born in 1945 and died, a suicide, in 2003, is one of its most versatile figures.

In his 60 years in racing, Mr. Watters proved a versatile figure.

1. Which versatile figure makes two appearances on Malcolm's list, as the director of The Wind and the star of Wild Strawberries?

The most versatile figure of Portuguese Modernism is José de Almada Negreiros, a poet, novelist, caricaturist, dancer, and actor who provoked scandal with his Manifesto anti-Dantas (1915), which ridiculed the doctor and politician Júlio Dantas, and his "Ultimatum futurista ás gerações portuguezas do Seculo XX" (1917; "Futurist Ultimatum to the Portuguese Generations of the 20th Century").

As a player he was a committed, versatile figure whose most notable spells came with Brighton and Yeovil - winning promotion with the former and captaining the latter in their 2007 play-off final defeat by Blackpool.

It is impossible to imagine the art of stand-up comedy without Pryor, its most versatile and charismatic figure.

Jardine vividly describes the way in which those pretensions were buttressed by the efforts of a remarkably versatile and cultivated figure, Constantijn Huygens (pronounced "Huggins" by the English).