Sentence examples for the practical wisdom of from inspiring English sources
In his study, Professor Barton said the current justices might lack the "practical wisdom" of "individuals who have faced the hurly-burly of legal practice or politics or trial court judging to understand the ramifications of broad social policy".
The practical wisdom of the pairing is something else.
He had entered the bank through a side door — the "middle office" — and advanced beyond his station, affirming the practical wisdom of France's rigid educational system and its distrust of the dangerously romantic notion that anyone can reach the top.
Disaffected students of any stripe will embrace the group's 1932 burlesque of university life, "Horse Feathers": Groucho, as the president of Quincy College, learns the practical wisdom of his son Zeppo's statement that "a college needs something else besides education".
The art of digression reached breathless heights in Samuel Butler's 1890 essay "Ramblings in Cheapside," which traverses turtle shells, the relation of eater to eaten, likenesses between common tradesmen and famous portraits, the worthlessness of most classical literature, the politics of parrots and the practical wisdom of slugs.
Some critics cover DVDs only and rarely write about new movies; others focus even more narrowly on classic Hollywood, or so-called experimental films, and, with the market for general-readership critics shrinking, this sort of positioning may, at least for some writers, prove the practical wisdom of following personal preference.
If there was anything tying Father Greeley's torrent of printed words together, it was a respect for what he considered the practical wisdom and religious experience of ordinary believers and an exasperation with elites, whether popes, bishops, church reformers, political radicals, secular academics or literary critics.
Sutkin et al. [ 5] in their literature review to identify specific characteristics of good medical teachers noted that these "characteristics were usually based on either the results of a survey of students/residents or the values or practical wisdom of the author(s)." Interdisciplinary studies of teacher effectiveness are further scarce [ 13].
It is their discussions of the virtues, practical wisdom, and weakness of will that form the critical backdrop to medieval discussions of conscience.
(The remarkable piece in yesterday's Times magazine by Stephen Rodrick, about Paul Schrader's new film, "The Canyons," reveals the vast practical wisdom about the ways of power on which a great filmmaker's art is built).
What is also required is the exercise of practical wisdom on the part of policy makers, managers and practitioners.
