Admitting that she's "prone to hyperbolic storytelling," she also wonders, "Is it really so much more honorable to refuse to lean on those who love you?" After 459 pages (Long is the real hyperbolic storyteller), it's disappointing to hear such ordinary home truths offered up as startling new wisdom.
His thesis in "The Imperial Cruise" is startling enough to reshape conventional wisdom about Roosevelt's presidency.
Eighteen states are in play, political strategists say, and in a startling reversal of received political wisdom, the number of tossup states is actually growing as the days to election day dwindle down to a few.
The startling case study contradicts received wisdom about the vaccine and suggests that a recent swell of measles outbreaks in developed nations could mean more illnesses even among the vaccinated.
As he wrote to his father in 1885, when he was only 22, it relied on "enterprise, energy and a certain startling originality, and not upon the wisdom of its political opinions or the lofty style of its editorials".
The idea of honoring old age, indeed identifying it with wisdom and closeness to God, is in startling contrast to the way we treat aging in America".
Setting aside the wisdom of that investment advice, it's a startling image.
"That the phenomenon of false confessions is genuine has moved from the realm of startling hypothesis into that of common knowledge, if not conventional wisdom," Judge Susan P. Read wrote in the majority opinion.
The confessions have a startling vulnerability, even when their conclusions, what Jay-Z calls "emotional wisdom," are somewhat elementary.
These and other follies, the received wisdom of centuries, were debunked in a brief but startling burst of scientific creativity lasting from about 1665 to 1680.
