Word: sagely
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...sinister" widow Chiang Ch'ing; highborn ladies tiptoeing painfully on bound feet and unisex masses marching in bulky Mao jackets; delicately misty watercolors and propaganda posters as crude as comic strips; hundred-year-old eggs and gunpowder; opium dens and Buddhist pagodas; the imperturbable mandarin sage and the fanatical archcriminal Dr. Fu Manchu...
CHRISTMAS CHEER to Ed Reischauer, the sage of Japan...
...Wenceslaus, the Crimson sage...
Though someone suggested that we go find a radio and listen to the Harvard-Yale football game (apparently it was being played just then), we opted instead for Blutarsky's sage advice, and drank heavily. Every now and again a flash of red or white would elicit a cheer from one side or the other--moments later the scoreboard would satisfy any curiosity that remained, and we groundlings would join in the fun. A delayed reaction, to be sure, but spirited all the same. And yet how marvelous a thing it would have been to have watched Harvard play Yale...
Deep in middle age, Isaac has suddenly acquired the wisdom of a sage and the passions of a schoolboy. In his rag picker's guise he becomes smitten with Annie Powell, a beautiful hooker disfigured by a D-shaped scar carved in her cheek...