Ewing and his defenders always insisted that the guerrilla war had been uniquely cruel, and that General Order No. 11 had been a necessary measure – "an act of wisdom, courage, and humanity," in Schofield's words — to suppress the bushwhackers.
Baumbach's recognition of this extraordinary performer's singular gifts comes right at the start of the film, a throwing-down of a directorial gauntlet that's an act of wisdom born of the audacity of excess — a long close-up, a minute or more, I'd guess, of Gerwig driving a car through L.A. traffic.
As James Landis, the New Deal's sage of administrative law and later dean of the Harvard Law School, argued, "it is an act of political wisdom to put back upon the shoulders of Congress" responsibility for "controversial choices".
In both the title story and the concluding one, "Acts of Memory, Wisdom of Man," Murray uses a fascination with bugs to signal a first-person narrator's distance from his own emotions.
I wonder how our policies might be shaped to include the voices of citizens who are seeking to step out of their illusions and return to valuing small acts of kindness, wisdom and beauty.
He devoted the next six years to an effort to convince the British electorate that to grant Home Rule to the Irish nation would be an act of justice and wisdom.
Did she, in an act of inspired canine wisdom, dash indoors and dial 911 with her paw?
Graduates will be in a stronger position to make decisions by embracing Pfeffer and Sutton's definition of wisdom: act on the best information you have, "while doubting what you know".
Through contemplative practice, we learn to quiet ourselves amid the noise, non-judgmentally observe our minds and bodies in the moment, access our inherent clarity, and act from a place of wisdom and compassion - appreciating our moment in history and taking courageous actions for the future.
In country music, if daddy ain't a no-good son of a gun, then he invariably often acts as a font of wisdom, a tradition carried on enthusiastically by this Muscle Shoals, Alabama, native, who peppers his ballads with Pop's pithy saws.
