Washington eventually chose to return to his home at Mount Vernon and with a new wife and her two children; he went about the business of becoming a farmer and over time and reflection, a wiser man.
Lessing's hybrid is a beautiful, wise reflection on how we simultaneously embroider and unpick our parents' lives in an effort to understand ourselves.
But the narrative gamesmanship is no mere virtuosity (witty though it is), but a wise reflection about children, foreignness, and the cinema itself.
This is an original, wise reflection.
She concludes with wise reflection and counsel for us all: " I still find myself resisting Anne Hathaway.
Her high-pitched, schoolgirl's voice belies a rush of reflections that sound wise beyond her years.
It's a remarkable history, rich in comedy and occasionally heartbreaking, filled with wise reflections and strange digressions about the wonders of life.
A master of both the vast scholarly literature on Nazism and the extraordinary range of its published and unpublished record, Kershaw combines vivid accounts of particular human experiences with wise reflections on big interpretive and moral issues.
But especially in the "Love" section, which moves from optimism through obsession to sadder-but-wiser reflection, it became an intense journey in which the emotional cost of passion, expressed in a song like "Loving You," is steep.
The film is a gem, combining a wry buddy comedy with the wise reflections of a more serious picture, all conveyed with Sorrentino's visual flair.
"My father died when I was six, so I sought a reflection of myself from wise older men".
