Knopfler, who now records as a soloist and performs with a backup band, has a wide-ranging curiosity that has produced an eclectic collection of songs.

Those wanderings taught me things I didn't know I was learning: trust, the value of quiet companionship, self-amusement and a wide-ranging curiosity.

Truffaut's wide-ranging curiosity, wit and clarity are well known.

While Mr. O'Neal has a wide-ranging curiosity, he also understands discipline.

Bernstein's wide-ranging curiosity has produced a book that is both enjoyable and enlightening.

He might, more properly, envy the human capacity for friendship and love, his wide-ranging curiosity, his eagerness for experience.

Even though he didn't live to see it, this magnificent compendium is a fine testament to his quick and spirited mind and his wide-ranging curiosity.

They reflect the wide-ranging curiosity and research of Frederick Renz, the ensemble's veteran director.

Increasingly this industrial license was accompanied by a license in speech, religious toleration and wide-ranging curiosity.

But it may comfort more adventurous listeners to know that Mr. Jansons is himself a man of restless intellect and wide-ranging curiosity.