Sentence examples for worldly insight from inspiring English sources

To describe Wolitzer as a comic novelist would be to underplay a writer whose ironic voice and worldly insight place her in the same league as Anne Tyler and Alison Lurie.

He plays the Don not as a repulsive old lecher but as a man of truly seductive virtues, of worldly insight and Olympian command, who perverts his own talents and abuses his own position in cavalier pursuit of pleasure.

An hour after the first of Jürgen Klopp's many jokes, interspersed with his worldly insights into football and life, he returns to a more personal memory.

It would be wrong to quote anything Gates said, but I now hold some worldly insights.

This season, the vectors point toward the personal relations from which worldly wisdom and emotional insight arise.

Michelle's sense of principled responsibility and groundedness, her worldly maturity and practical insight, is matched by Barack's ardent but callow, mighty but still-unfocussed energies.

Earlier biographies only hinted at some of these stories, but no one will be able to write about Austen again without allowing for the context they provide and the insight into her worldly novels, which as Tomalin says, are 'ways of looking at England'.

Always truthful and intensely revealing of the true character of these women, I came away from it thinking that -- as a mature, somewhat worldly man -- I had a sudden insight into women I could have used much earlier in my life.