Sentence examples for wrest wisdom from from inspiring English sources

"I was trying to wrest wisdom from these wisdomless piles of information," Bakkila said.

Wracked by indecision about whether to flee the scene or stay, he wrests the following bit of wisdom from "Oedipus": "Having set out trying to disprove a story and a prophecy, Oedipus ended up killing his own father . . .

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Words of wisdom from Nelson Mandela.

Immortal wisdom from Sun Tzu.

Also, Micella shares some wisdom from readers.

-Meeting wisdom from @ppuurrr.

"It will not be lost on seekers of spiritual wisdom," Dr. Vaux writes, "that Eastwood's journey toward embracing empathy for outcasts and pariahs, the disposition to wrest power from the mighty and elevate the weak, comes from the Bible: the Virgin Mary's Magnificat, the Beatitudes and the Gospel writer's references to the wisdom of folly" in the Gospel of Luke.

When Hagen attempts to wrest it from them, he drowns.

They wrest cash from the state to fund the yeshivas.

Her book tracks her attempts to wrest free from it.