Linander casually dropped a word to the wise: self-assembled furniture requires retightening over time.
"Anything for a Laugh," the album opener, offers up another in a long line of Parker songs with wise, self-loathing lyrics.
Wise, self-searching, frankly even self-flagellating, the most affecting parts came when he talked about his childhood ("family dynamic was grim") and his turbulent private life.
In conversation the band members greet the possibility of fame with a shrug — perhaps wise self-protection in an era when the definition of success is being scaled down.
Carole remains more a politically correct wish fulfillment than a flesh-and-blood character: always ready with a zippy comeback or some wise self-analysis, and oddly undaunted by her position as the first black girl at the Goode School.
As part of training sessions in delivering the WISE self-management support approach in primary care, GPs, nurses and admin staff were asked to create a pathway 'from reception to self-management' for people with diabetes.
Nelly burbles about "not wanting to hide behind metaphor" and uncovering her "wiser self".
You capture perfectly a particular combination of cockiness and cluelessness that marks the onset of adolescence, while managing to keep the judgment of an older, wiser self at bay.
As the social conscience of the drama, Jenny (whose older and wiser self – voiced by Vanessa Redgrave – bookends these tales with some soothing personal philosophy) is always more likely to give us something to think about than laugh at, and as usual she got the week's most brow-furrowing case.
It is the story of how he and some friends threw themselves into the sleepless, heady world of startup magazines in San Francisco in the early 1990's, believing in all seriousness that they could reinvent the medium, and of how Mr. Eggers almost got a spot on MTV's "The Real World," something his older, wiser self now finds deeply embarrassing.
But John takes one look at the goldfish swallowing, partying frat brothers of Kappa Psi Lambda, and the voice-over narration of his older, wiser self says, "I knew I had to do whatever it took to be part of this".
