savant

How To Use savant In A Sentence

• What Tughlukabad was to the military of fourteenth-century Delhi, the suburb of Hauz Khas was to the savants.
• Bent double under their loads, the savants spend hours unpacking and repacking their sacks whenever they meet each other.
• Hikari, the idiot savant, under various names is, in Oe's hands, an effective and necessary literary device; no single version could encompass his profound meditation on his son's – and the human – condition. Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer
• Curt Backa, who has been fist-bumped more than he liked to be, is a Tribune sports writer, copy editor and kegling savant. Greatfallstribune.com - Local News
• Allan Snyder and John Mitchell of the Centre for the Mind in Canberra , Australia, argue that savant brain processes occur in each of us but are overwhelmed by more sophisticated conceptual cognition.
• Mersenne both kept in touch with savants all over Europe, and seems to have had a clear vision himself of what a new philosophy must consist in.
• He paced about the small Thrown Room several hours after the magical battle with the derro savant during the "crowna - tion" party. Flint, the King
• He studies 'prodigious savants', the world's 100 or so brain-damaged people with superpowers: memory men, human calculators, speed draughtsmen. Times, Sunday Times
• This approach may not break any new ground, but it seems entirely appropriate to the subject, a modern day songwriting savant and restless genre-hopper who once wrote in a manifesto on formulism in music, "Cliché is dead, long live the cliché! NPR Topics: News
• If in Anatole France the savant has not lately flourished to the detriment of the fighting philosopher, why should he have spent years on the "Joan of Arc" at a period when Jaurès urgently needed intellectual aid against the doctrinarianism of the International Congress? Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911