| The opsimath or late-leamer is potentially a comic figure, as may be seen from his presence in Theophrastus Characters. |
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| It is not that difficult to tell the derelict from the opsimath or the autodidact from the pot pusher. |
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| Being an opsimath, I had not been fishing that long myself, but still knew a few rudimentary rules about how to land a fish. |
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| When it comes to firearms, I am definitely an opsimath, as I have never fired a gun until I was past the age of 30. |
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| He derides Philoponus as an opsimath for not seeing that we must try to uncover the deeper agreements behind the surface inconcinnities. |
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| Those who gave the name were not simple enough to think that even an opsimath was not something better than a contented dunce. |
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| My wife Angela not only brought the dedication of an opsimath to the use of the word-processor, but also, as an enemy of gush, curbed my worst excesses of style. |
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| The opsimath, however, arriving late to the banquet and forcing himself to catch up to his peers in their cups, soon becomes tipsy and finds himself an object of ridicule to the others. |
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| It also made me aware of the existence of Sikh scholarship and debunked forever the popular notion of a Sikh being simply an opsimath and Sikh history merely a melange of events adding up to anarchy. |
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| The truth is that Zola was an opsimath, who had read Stendhal, Flaubert, Balzac, the Goncourts and Taine late in life. |
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