How to Use man of letters in a Sentence
man of letters
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Marty is an erudite man of letters who has long wanted to meet one of his favorite writers.
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Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
4 Sep. 2025
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Mann has been invited to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Goethe, Germany’s greatest man of letters.
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Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
14 May 2026
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Mann has been invited to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Goethe, Germany’s greatest man of letters.
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Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
15 May 2026
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And what of the gently curmudgeonly man of letters who runs an after-school study room for children, tutoring them in everything from multiplication tables to Victor Hugo?
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Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Feb. 2026
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Prestigious man of letters Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) spills down the snowy front steps at the home of a small-town family, the Stanleys — where he's planned a promo dinner in Mesalia, Ohio, right around the holidays.
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Gwen Ihnat,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Dec. 2025
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In fact, every drama student who wants to fully understand the randy old Norwegian man of letters should check out the Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios film now streaming on Prime Video.
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Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
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There was a prefatory letter by Archibald MacLeish, a professor at Harvard and a former Librarian of Congress, and an introduction by Mark Schorer, a professor of English at Berkeley, along with blurbs from other eminent men of letters.
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Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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