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
If the two men who had met there to confer about their ill-gotten gold were in the crowd, doubtless they were sadder and wiser men.
From Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World by Optic, Oliver
