Word: wiseness
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...roller,” which means he’s everyone’s new best friend. Instead of being refuted, his opinions are being affirmed. FOTG has shaken off his that-guy-iness, and as a result, he is momentarily considered wise and insightful...
...time of actual war - and when one of the hunters helps to run that war - the playfulness of the sport may seem distasteful. To shoot at feathered things while obliging other folks to shoot at much larger creatures that shoot back doesn't seem right somehow, or wise. At some poetic level it tempts the gods, and the gods are always armed. For Cheney, that's the painful, humbling part. For the public, it's the engrossing, mythic part. The press may be mauling the story and prolonging it, but the accident's strange allegorical allure is beyond its power...
...women's studies dissertations, on the grounds that we didn't want our daughters' role model to be a giddy shopaholic who said, "Math class is tough!" and had a figure that defied the laws of gravity. That stance lasted until my older daughter was about 6 and a wise friend told me I was being an idiot by turning Barbie into forbidden fruit. Sure enough, when Sleeping Beauty Barbie arrived, she was played with happily for 48 hours and then put to sleep on the shelf in favor of the paintbox and the Beanie Babies...
...many of his students, Ben-Shahar is not just a teacher. He is a friend, perhaps a wise old preacher...
...wrong. As long as I don’t sound like a dumb bunny in my tutorials, and as long as I don’t engage in any terribly conspicuous consumption, I am able to remain relatively anonymous, status-wise. Indeed, there’s far more disdain on this campus for Final Club members and coke-dealing socialites (populations which, I suppose, probably have a good deal of overlap with the legacy sector, but I digress) than for people like...