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Labour has nodded sagely at the urgency of the issue.

Aemond sagely offers, “This war will not be won by dragons alone, but dragons flying behind armies of men.”

Then things got hairy and now here they are, sagely describing this process to a dutiful filmmaker.

That advice has served me well for decades, along with that of Scoggins, who once unfurled the printout of an overwritten 100-inch article and said, sagely: “Never write a story that’s taller than you are.”

The film, which Mr. Canby called “a sagely funny comedy, both heartfelt and sophisticated,” gave the singer Rubén Blades his breakout acting role.