Invoking the wisdom of her husband, "surfer legend" Skip, she says with a smile: "It's sort of like the surf.
Invoking the wisdom of Solomon, they arrived at the ludicrous compromise that Di Stéfano, who was restricted to playing in friendlies and exhibitions while getting thoroughly fed up with the behaviour of both clubs, should alternate between Real and Barcelona a season at a time for four years, at which point both clubs would reach an agreement on his future.
An hour or so later, Lord Skidelsky is invoking the wisdom of John Maynard Keynes, demolishing the fallacy that government finances are analogous to domestic household budgets, and explaining Keynes's "paradox of thrift", whose logic dictates that the state's route out of recession must involve not saving but spending more.
Invoking the wisdom of Judith Viorst and her 1986 book Necessary Losses, Andrea Brandt, Ph.D., author of 8 Keys to Eliminating Passive-Aggressiveness, says that my decision was typical — and appropriate.
Chinese leaders often invoke the wisdom and moderation of Confucius these days.
The past is a source of comfort for Mr. Clayton as he invokes the wisdom of the ancients that fishing cycles wax and wane in the vast Chesapeake.
Still, it has become almost impossible to invoke "conventional wisdom" without some sense of irony, or some implicit warning label that it could turn out to be very wrong.
Lord Justice Jacob invoked the wisdom of Justice Holmes: "A tyro thinks to puzzle you by asking you where you are going to draw the line and an advocate of more experience will show the arbitrariness of the line proposed by putting cases very near it on one side or the other".
ANY reader of this newspaper knows how The Times likes to invoke the wisdom of people identified as "experts" or "analysts," but until I counted their presence the other day I had no idea how crowded with expertise the paper was.
To answer this question I will invoke the wisdom of Joel Greenblatt, one of the foremost experts on value investing.
The Buddhist writer Wes Nisker might have invoked "crazy wisdom".
