With typical Shirley wisdom, Brown summed up her feelings on both the show's legacy and renewal chances towards the end of the panel.
Having turned his lived days into a joke about lifelessness, his gestural gifts lurked in the conceptual shadows, behind his genius-renunciation of a genius-artist's typical assertions of wisdom or depth.
Because I did as so many other people did, and do: with the wisdom typical of age 16, I chose the "hot" school -- so hot that it was pictured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine with the headline "The Hot School," so hot that it didn't accept me, leaving me to scramble for an alternative that worked out, but far from ideally.
In a typical bit of wisdom, Wilder is explaining to Crowe how director Ernst Lubitsch solved a story problem Wilder was having in writing the screenplay for "Ninotchka": How would they show Greta Garbo's evolution from hard-core Communist to fierce capitalist without a lot of cumbersome speechifying?
Kirn's memoir reflects a certain sad wisdom typical of those who have gone through the initiation and submersion, only to emerge whole, somehow, on the other side.
Both these things -- the intricate conceit and the wisdom -- are typical of Howard.
The 33-year-old Smart and the 34-year-old Stevens have defied the sport's conventional wisdom, turning the typical wine-and-cheese Final Four into a keg party — everyone is invited.
So it was here Thursday night, as the Giants — consistently inconsistent in splitting their first two games — produced their most dominant performance of the season in Week 3 despite frequently using a lineup of players that entered the game with the collective wisdom of a typical freshman seminar.
With typical foresight, he questioned the wisdom of the European Union in an interview with The Guardian newspaper in the late 1990s.
Typical was this bit of motivational wisdom attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The sun will shine after every storm".
