Instead it's inspiring in its empathy, wisdom and self-knowledge.
Diners with any wisdom and self-control waited a few months, or even years, while the place hit its stride.
So by the time the dancer has gained some wisdom and self-possession, she is being hustled off the stage.
His smile, which stretched from one wrinkled cheek to the other, baring his kola-stained teeth, radiated strength, wisdom, and self-confidence.
Instead, Mr. Levine counsels: "The greatest gift we can give our children is the freedom to develop a strong sense of self, to nurture within them the wisdom and self-confidence to stand up for themselves.
By turns funny, gossipy, insightful, sour and celebratory, it is full of Jarman's trade marks of lightly worn wisdom and self-deprecating amour propre, this time against the darker background of failing health.
It is the last resort of parents who have failed to establish their true authority as adults, which is rooted not in their physical superiority but rather in their emotional maturity, wisdom and self-confidence.
But this authorization does not imply unchecked presidential power; to accept such an interpretation would be to abandon the Constitution's system of checks and balances for nothing more than the promise of presidential wisdom and self-restraint.
His story is enlivened by occasional flashes of wit, wisdom and self-deprecating awareness, but the overriding impression at the end of this book is of someone who has never had to try very hard at anything.
Probably few historians will agree with him that the low number of white deaths during the various slave rebellions was evidence of the "wisdom and self-discipline" of the slave rebels.
Central bankers and regulators, led by Alan Greenspan, had absorbed the underlying message of the traditional model; that market prices were the best judges of true value, that bubbles were thus unlikely to form and, crucially, that those who worked in the financial sector had sufficient wisdom and self-control to limit their risks, with the help of market pressure.
