Examples of wise man in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web With the studied patience of a professional wise man, Mr. Friedmann listens to their laments and assures them, by way of consolation, that their problems are a nearly universal affliction. — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022 More than a century later, in the Cold War, Tocqueville could seem a wise man of anti-totalitarian liberalism—a figure chastened by history’s terrors, unillusioned about utopian promises, and able to help keep democracy on a narrow but smooth path. — Jedediah Britton-purdy, The New Republic, 22 Apr. 2022 Rabbi Kanievsky himself was regarded as such a wise man. — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022 The local barber shop — dramatized here with characteristic comic vivacity and overseen by the lovely actor Esau Pritchett as head barber and wise man — now vies with Whole Foods as a landmark. — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2021 Now, 38 years—and what feels like a number of professional and personal lifetimes—later, the 49-year-old Affleck is no longer the searching boy but, in a new film directed by George Clooney, the wise man. — Michael Hainey, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2021 Because then, as now, this wise man identified the need to move. — Kathleen Woodhouse, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021 California: If a wise man ranked the coaches in the Pac-12, Cal’s Justin Wilcox would be in the top five. — Matt Youmans Vsin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2021 As a wise man of words once wrote: The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves. — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2021 See More

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