Example sentences for: wisdom

How can you use “wisdom” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Conventional wisdom has it that this embrace of the blockbuster represents the ultimate triumph of commerce over art, dooming American movies to mediocrity.

  • Equally lacking in wisdom, however, are analyses such as Allen's, which only evaluate taxes' macroeconomic consequences while ignoring completely the effects they have on individuals.

  • A special issue examining "the dawn of e-life" rehashes conventional wisdom on the transformative potential of the Internet: Commerce will be revolutionized by Amazon-like companies and by online auctions that enable individuals to sell oddball items to distant buyers or bid for services from companies with excess inventory.

  • An article refutes the accepted wisdom that Klaus Fuchs and David Greenglass leaked the first atomic secrets to the Soviets.

  • Greenspan, of course, has never ascribed to himself (at least not in public--who knows what he thinks as he sits contentedly in his bathtub) the level of wisdom and farsightedness that the media have come to grant him.


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