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
It fluttered beautifully on the breeze, and in such living form, that a brother or sister Sally came up to see it, and went away sadder and wiser.
From Crocker's Hole From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
