sadder and wiser
Example Sentences
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Somehow, the younger Fellini strikes me as sadder and wiser than the all-powerful magus he would eventually become.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 17, 2020
You finish it feeling sadder and wiser, so if you’re O.K. with the sadder part, you should take it on.
From New York Times • May 7, 2015
The son of a lifelong sailor, Llewyn has done a few tours at sea himself, leaving him a shade sadder and wiser than most of the middle-class folkie kids he’s surrounded by.
From Slate • Dec. 5, 2013
Costantini has created a fascinating protagonist, first seen as a thirtysomething womaniser with fascist sympathies, and then as an older, sadder and wiser man, bent on making amends for past mistakes.
From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2013
Finally, most of the knights returned from the Quest sadder and wiser men, Launcelot was banished by the king to Joyous Garde, and was therefore not at hand when the last great fight occurred.
From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
