Lowry applauded Ackles, who "brings an easygoing charm and engaging wise-ass personality to the absurd notion of traveling the country with a trunk full of wooden stakes and holy water".
In the poem Vafþrúðnismál, Odin engages the wise jötunn Vafþrúðnir in a game of wits.
"This announcement ought to teach astute large church leadership teams [to] not to over-build, especially monuments to architectural and ministerial hubris... to make sure to have a reasonable plan of succession, and above all, to engage in wise fiscal policies," Thumma added.
His books on Englishness, language and class are engaging, witty and wise.
As Donaldson's winsome performance made clear last night, he's an entertainer, who punctuates the music with bandstand shtick of the highest order, a scintillating, engaging raconteur whose wise and hearty humor displays flashes of the hard and wild night life of his younger years and a depth of experience that lends his derivative music its authentic substance.
But he got a laugh on that one, and before we knew it, the erstwhile contrarian and longtime curmudgeon was an engaging, wise-cracking, media day star, and not solely measured against the low-bar standard set by Belichick earlier in the day.
He was endearing with the students; he was engaged; he was wise.
According to Herodotus, ancient Babylonians engaged in a "wise custom" of bringing those who were ill to the marketplace, where passers-by were ordered to stop and question the sufferers.
Obama and his campaign are wise to start engaging constituents and citizens personally.
Though engaging with Central Asian neighbours is wise and judicious, there seems to be little concrete policy to put behind the Economic Cooperation Organization.
If different kinds of conditions are expressed by the word "if", the objectors argue, then it would be wise to uncover these before engaging in attempts to formalize and systematize the concepts of necessary and sufficient.
