Sentence examples for if not wiser from inspiring English sources

Poison got back together at the beginning of this decade, and is now older, if not wiser.

Nine years on, Before Sunset belatedly picks up the pieces - revisiting characters who are older if not wiser.

He is no longer the young firebrand he once was, and if not wiser, he has certainly grown more sedate.

The new novel promises to find Bridget older if not wiser, and deeply embroiled in the contemporary virtual landscapes of internet dating, Twitter and other social media.

I'm older than I was when I was first aware of her as President Nixon's wife, and if not wiser, at least a little more honest, and, I hope, honest about being curious and perplexed.

The fact that he was more than twice her age didn't feel creepy at all, first because he barely laid a hand on her, and second because she seemed older and calmer, if not wiser, than her years.

Sam is a member of the local scout troop; an orphan, clever if not wise beyond his years, and affecting a corn-cob pipe, he resembles a young Douglas MacArthur.

Nineteen-year-old Olive Schloss has just moved to the big house near the village of Arazuelo with her parents, Viennese art dealer Harold and glamorous mother Sarah – "an English nettle" – whose inheritance from the family condiments business has made her wealthy, if not wise.

Personally, I think that ultimately it's a reasonable, if not wise, project, although I think the timing and the process stink.

The fact that the people of one State cannot read some of the works of D. H. Lawrence seems to me, if not wise or desirable, at least acceptable.

Last summer, the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, launched Liz Duffy Adams's A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World, set in 1702 and featuring older-if-not-wiser versions of Abigail Williams and Mercy Lewis, two of the young Salem accusers.