“He is a man possessed by his calling, a savant given to seeking refuge in his own mind from the slings and arrows of life in the 16th century.”

“She was the least savant of the group, according to her tattered footwear, and her lackey hair job tailed the backwoods hillbilly aura about her.”

“His rare talent means Joshua has been termed an art savant, a name given to someone who is gifted in a certain area.”

“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.”

“It is not enough for a few savants to be privy to esoteric mathematical knowledge for that knowledge to be influential in a wider culture.”

“The process was begun with the savants who were sent by Napoleon to accumulate information for the multivolume Description de l' Egypte.”