Sentence examples for wise child from inspiring English sources

He writes that the character "is not a wise child so much as a wised-up child, a comic performer who gets us to laugh at what he sees and how he sees it and who he is — a super-virtuosic unreliable narrator who finally just gives up and screams like an enraged schoolboy".

A Wise Child out of Salinger".

LITERATURE is fond of the wise child.

IT IS a wise child that knows his own father.

Rosemarie Slavenas sometimes refers to him as "my wise child".

You've raised a wise child to steer clear of yours.

Wise Children Angela Carter A theatrical extravaganza by a brilliant exponent of magic realism.

Nights At The Circus (1984) and Wise Children are no less complex but more ribald and relaxed.

In finding a way to communicate with the reclusive Miles, Brooke brings to mind other wise children in literature, like Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird".

I have learned, in working with incredible women and men (and wise children) carrying this burden, to be very, very careful before pathologizing grief.

Read an extract from Susannah Clapp's memoir of Carter Kit Buchan's piece on Wise Children for the Families in Literature series 97.