Sentence examples for sort of wise from inspiring English sources

Puuuuurl!" The children speak in a sort of wise and frightening pidgin.

He is the sort of wise simpleton, a kind of Chinese Soldier Schweik, that often turns up in Mo Yan's novels.

Christie had travelled extensively with his parents and "was sort of wise about Europe", so he moved to Paris and enrolled in the conservatory in 1971.

In "The Last of the Mohicans" and Disney's "Pocahontas" in the 1990s he played the sort of wise, far-seeing chief he should have been, had everything been different.

He was even sort of wise".

The M.C. is a sort of wise hillbilly Sally Jesse Raphael, slinky person.

Freshly regenerated, his Doctor ambles round Victorian London wild-eyed in a nightshirt, insulting people while struggling to make sense of himself and his surroundings, like a sort of wise-cracking King Lear.

All hail Scotty T, a sort of wise-bantery Dalai Lama.

We lay down in the middle of Paulista Avenue and painted all sorts of wise messages on placards, like: "I'm so pissed off that I wrote this sign".

Empedocles, on the other hand, is clearly sympathetic to Pythagoras, when he describes him as " a man who knew remarkable things" and who "possessed the greatest wealth of intelligence" and again probably makes reference to his wonder-working by calling him "accomplished in all sorts of wise deeds"(Fr. 129).

"Panic!" is filled with all sorts of wise-sounding statements, often spoken in sepulchral voice-overs by Mr. Foreman, which have the tantalizing quality of phrases half-remembered from dreams.