Sentence examples for venerable sage from inspiring English sources

Victorian intellectuals revered Goethe as the venerable Sage of Weimar.

It doesn't take a venerable sage to understand why this might be so.

That venerable sage, the funk musician Rick James, once said, "R&B stands for rhythm and business".

The mutual fund revolution In the course of a recent telephone conversation, Peter F. Drucker, the venerable sage of global management theory and practice, explained why the rest of the world is beginning to catch up with the $5 trillion (net assets) U.S. mutual fund industry.

In the years following the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, however, when calls for legal, social, and political reform were becoming commonplace, Bentham's reputation in Britain was transformed from that of an eccentric and often misunderstood oracle on the periphery of the intellectual and political world to that of a venerable sage situated at the center of a broad reform movement.

"I messed up," the venerable sage told Congress.

We the elite and venerable sages of Western thinking, enjoying peaceful domestic scenes, robust job growth and international respect from our government-controlled media.Robert KunkleDallasSIR – You fail to recognise the change in the American psyche.

Arguably, the most on form of these venerable sages, however, is Paul Simon, who, at 69, appears to be utterly ageless – his voice soft and light, his guitar-playing as fluid and dexterous as his words.

In recent years the likes of Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and Brian Cox have parlayed a stellar stage career into a lucrative gig as venerable sages or snooty villains in all manner of Hollywood produce.

AN ICONIC MOMENT in Israeli politics, captured by the TV cameras in October 1997, showed Binyamin Netanyahu, then in his first term as prime minister, leaning towards Yitzhak Keddouri, a venerable kabbalistic sage (both pictured right) and speaking into his ear.

Be sage.