| The truth is that Zola was an opsimath, who had read Stendhal, Flaubert, Balzac, the Goncourts and Taine late in life. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The opsimath or late-leamer is potentially a comic figure, as may be seen from his presence in Theophrastus Characters. |
| Those who gave the name were not simple enough to think that even an opsimath was not something better than a contented dunce. |
| 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. |
