Sentence examples for the wise fool of from inspiring English sources

Her first role was as Feste, the wise fool of "Twelfth Night".

"If I survive this life without dying," the wise fool of a clergyman once sighed, "I'd be surprised".

Words of Wisdom The beloved tales of Juan Bobo, the wise fool of Puerto Rican folklore, lie at the heart of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater's free summer tour.

READERS of our Christmas issue were invited to nominate the wisest fool of the past 50 years.

Priests and bishops, he points out, "have forever been figures of fun, and targets of the wise fool".

It's hard sticking kids into science fiction or horror, where they usually become a mixture of the popular tropes of the wise fool who sums up situations with naive simplicity and the damsel in distress who's just there to be rescued.

Like Feste or the fool in King Lear, there is a long tradition of the wise fool, who usually gets it right.

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As networked digital games that enable multi-player scenarios begin to spread, it is likely that German enthusiasm for playing those games will rise.Greg CostikyanNew YorkPearls of wisdomSIR – As a baseball fan, I was pleased to see that Yogi Berra was named the wisest fool ("Wisest fools", January 29th).

He was a smart cookie, but not for nothing was he known as "the wisest fool in Christendom".