Sentence examples for usual wisdom from inspiring English sources

Sitting on her heap of days (a wonderfully Biblical image), she goes back in time, she recollects, and, in a striking inversion of the usual wisdom, phrased with Harvey's wistful elegance, she posits that the past is where our true potential lies: There is freedom there; there is always freedom in the past.

That reflects common wisdom.

And, as usual, received wisdom is a load of horse pucky.

As usual the wisdom and charity of corporate press offices works wonderful magic.

A surfeit of ideas and feelings rather than the usual conventional wisdom dressed up as a play — the old two-act call and response.

In business as usual, the received wisdom binds all parties to outdated modes of behaviour.

After three paragraphs, his column reverted to its usual theme: dispensing wisdom about football around the world, and in particular in the Netherlands.

As usual, the conventional wisdom is wrong.

Specifically, I wish that every time I felt like a complete mommy failure, the fabulous Project Runway star could just appear, a stoic presence in some cute little pinstripe suit, all six foot two of him, bearing his usual words of wisdom and a clean pocket square to dry my tears with.

Mr Napolitano, you have completed this task with your usual talent and wisdom and, ladies and gentlemen, it will not surprise you to learn that I agree with the rapporteur on many of the points in his report.

It would be easy in the aftermath of Easter to get bogged down in the usual debate about the wisdom of the double-header.