Sentence examples for wisdom that even from inspiring English sources

I spent a large part of the Bush years contending, at first almost alone, against the conventional wisdom that, even if you didn't like his policies, Bush was a bluff, honest guy.

The premise is well-worn, but Harrison has created a character of such appeal and self-deprecating wisdom that even the more fantastical episodes — a nubile young woman cavorting in the nude for his pleasure — acquire a charmingly philosophical air.

The "Dionysian experiment," a "community of the carnal heart," may never have lasted anyway, Gunn says, but he refuses to renounce it retrospectively, to side against its hopefulness and daring with the "wisdom" that even then "was pointing us away".

The premise is well-worn, but Harrison has created a character of such appeal and self-deprecating wisdom that even the more fantastical episodes a nubile young woman cavorting in the nude for his pleasure acquire a charmingly philosophical air.

"It used to be conventional wisdom that even in a recession, people would still buy toys," says Chris White, an analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities.

The more virtuous one is, the greater the happiness one can expect because one's well-being does not completely depend on the goods of this life and because it is incompatible with God's universal benevolence and infinite wisdom that even a single virtuous deed should go unrewarded and a vicious one unpunished.

To the most powerful office on earth, he would bring the compassion that comes from having once been powerless... the wisdom that comes even to the captives, by the grace of God... the special confidence of those who have seen evil, and seen how evil is overcome.

According to the Hermit's definition of tranquillity in Theonoston, tranquillitas coincides with securitas, that is, a condition of unbreakable inner peace, free from cares and anxiety, and it is a level of wisdom that would even suit God.

In "Pride and Prejudice" she offers a bit of wisdom that still resonates, even when the behavior of humankind seems without explanation or reason: "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn".

The third series ended last month and was universally lauded for the sort of wit and wisdom that makes you laugh even as you despair.

But corporate wisdom seems to hold that even as it creeps forward, it ought to halt a backslide.