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How can you use “wise” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Instinct is "inspired" by Daniel Quinn's 1991 cult novel Ishmael , which is largely a Socratic, telepathic dialogue between a man and a gorilla, the latter of whom hectors the former about the destructive path of modern society and restates the history of the world as a struggle between "leavers" (animals, wise nomadic tribes) and "takers" (mostly white males).
Mary Hawthorne comes to his rescue in the New York Times Book Review , calling the novel a "wise and beautiful book ...
Death is everywhere in The Sixth Sense ; the point of the film, unusually wise for a blockbuster, is that death is inevitable, and not an enemy.
Robert Wise's 1963 original, based on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House , is overrated, but it manages to evoke the eeriest aspect of Jackson's fiction: the way the characters' neuroses acquire an inexorable life of their own and threaten to eat them alive.
By Daniel Wise
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