Sentence examples for reigning wisdom from inspiring English sources

This is the low-fat diet that has been reigning "wisdom" for the last 30 years or more.

In this eloquent challenge to the reigning wisdom on globalization, Dani Rodrik offers a new narrative, one that embraces an ineluctable tension: we cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national self-determination, and economic globalization.

The reigning wisdom of theater producers these days is that if a play is ever going to grow up — that is, be taken seriously, receive lots of attention and, above all, make money — it can do so only on Broadway.

There was a time when few of us thought about what we ate, but that's been turned upside down since the reigning wisdom first decried salt, then cholesterol, then saturated fat, then almost all fat, then red meat, then carbohydrates and so on.

With his erudite critique of the reigning wisdom about the Salem witch trials, Tony Fels reveals as much about our own time as about the malevolence that wracked New England at the end of the seventeenth century". "This is a book that is important in college, especially for young historians, because it helps us become better ones and shows us that ways of looking at things do change.

He challenged every assumption and, especially as he matured, never accepted the reigning "wisdom".

That has been the conventional wisdom for some years now, and this time the conventional wisdom — the reigning cliché — happens to be true.

We have been led down foolish paths, and it's time now to grow up, stop being passive and work for the reign of wisdom, justice, equality, sustainability and peace.

Harmony reigns as Barty attains spiritual wisdom, various other characters join forces against wickedness, and at least one chaste engagement is made.

Shiny new social media channels, Internet advertising or traditional TV? Conventional wisdom holds that television still reigns as the most emotionally provocative advertising medium.

In 1981, Conde Nast announced that it would resurrect Vanity Fair, which had reigned as a repository of wit and fractured wisdom from 1914 to 1936.