Sentence examples for passes for wisdom from inspiring English sources

What then passes for wisdom in this novel?

This is what passes for wisdom -- and humor -- here.

He's right — and it's deeply depressing that stuff like this passes for wisdom.

Into this category goes much of what passes for wisdom about health, exercise, food and sex.

And we hear the pompous gibberish that passes for wisdom at a prestigious university conference.

I think this question can and should be asked about a lot of what passes for wisdom these days.

Some of the same ideas pass for wisdom today, too: there is the idea that Putin's role in shaping Putinism has been exaggerated, and the fear that, when Putin is gone, someone worse more aggressive, more repressive, and more anti-American will come to power.

Some of the same ideas pass for wisdom today, too: there is the idea that Putin's role in shaping Putinism has been exaggerated, and the fear that, when Putin is gone, someone worse — more aggressive, more repressive, and more anti-American — will come to power.

Just about everything currently passing for wisdom about RCTs and nutrition is wrong.

In addition to his other pearls of what passed for wisdom, Robert Rubin was also the chief architect of the "strong dollar" policy.

I mention this to underline the fragility of memory, the flexibility of what passes for conventional wisdom.