wise old man

A wise old man like you see in movies and books.

O’Connor often said that a wise old man and a wise old woman would come to the same result; she loathed the idea that her gender shaped her jurisprudence.

His depiction as a toothless and wise old man signaled that he was not to be feared, an important characteristic for someone promoting an anxiety-inducing process like writing.

And there she was the other day, waiting with Horowitz on the sidewalk outside their apartment on the Upper West Side, a mid-sized mixed-breed dog with a sleek black coat, a scruffy schnauzer-like face and Brezhnev-esque eyebrows that gave her the appearance of a wise old man.

“He was sort of like a wise, old man spiritually. He knew his Bible. He would go to Sunday school class but he could probably teach some of those Sunday school classes. That’s how well-versed he was in the Bible.”