Similarly, Jason's displays of writerly wisdom are clever but hardly brain-rewiring: "Eavesdropping's sort of thrilling 'cause you learn what people really think, but eavesdropping makes you miserable for exactly the same reason".
Prestige, in contrast, means influencing others by displaying signs of wisdom and expertise and being a role model.
He deflected the question of what he would do about slavery; he used the story as a device to explain his policy; in a display of folksy wisdom, he got his listeners to laugh.
He's seeing a penumbra of particles and antiparticles from the quantum vacuum that prove, upon close inspection, to be strings, tubes, cones and manifolds: an opening display of Einsteinian wisdom.
These causes are: belief in unworthy authority; long custom; uncritical popular opinion; concealment of academic ignorance in a display of rhetorical wisdom.
In a rare display of Solomonesque wisdom, European football's governing body, Uefa, awarded the match to Serbia and then docked it three points for failing to control the crowd at Belgrade's Partizan Stadium.
This was in part because local officials, displaying a degree of wisdom virtually Solomonic by Southern standards in that period, had responded with restraint, and let the protesters wear themselves out.
The most recent example would be Judge Kevin M. McCarthy of the San Francisco Superior Court, who, as everybody has already noted, displayed the wisdom of Solomon toward the two men who grappled for Barry Bonds's 73rd home run ball.
Proficient in nine languages – he addressed his murderers in Bulgarian – he read and thought deeply in his own, displaying the wisdom of a man four times his age.
Both in the film's writing and direction, Domalpalli displays maturity, wisdom and a loving sense of visual and character detail".
