Sentences with phrase «as folk wisdom»

Laughter and tears are intimately related, as folk wisdom knows and as many poets have told us.

It can certainly be credited for geographical knowledge, as well as folk wisdom learned from experience, such as the proscriptions against eating shellfish or pork, but it is certainly nothing more than the recorded myths of a specific people from specific points in time.

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The note, full of Buffett's famous folk wisdom, also gave hints as to who may be next in line to take over the top leadership role if Buffett were to pass away or step down.

As companies like Shopify scale, managers inevitably lose that immediate knowledge of what's going on every day, and so the folks at Shopify unleashed the wisdom of its crowd.

Especially in a country in which folk wisdom and popular religion have diverse cultural sources, the appeal to these is often highly divisive, as today over issues of abortion and homosexuality and religious practices in the schools.

In general, folk - theories are unsystematic accumulations of conventional wisdom on a particular topic; they may embody some truth but are as likely to embody much falsehood.

Matthew knew what John knew — John did not have a higher evolution of understanding of who Jesus claimed to be than the other apostles — it is just in the wisdom of God as He used each writer to convey understanding to the folks who received the letters and for our benefit in the ages to come that Matthew focuses on different things than John.

The folk wisdom that gets expressed from time to time by various actors thus serves as a kind of implicit Greek chorus commenting on the action.

And precisely because the proverbs and folk wisdom being expressed are true, and recognized as true by the audience, they create a bond between the meaning of the play and the experience of the spectators.

But fortunately for us the Hebrew found God in history, in law, in the folk wisdom of the people and in his flights of poetic inspiration, as well as in his profound questionings concerning the meaning of life; so we have actually preserved for us a veritable wealth of literary variety of expression.

Jenny Berlin and Scottish actor Ken Stott kvetch their way through their roles as Bobby's observant New York Jewish parents, letting Woody wallow through hoary stereotypes spouting the Wisdom of God's Chosen folk.

However, as Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) pointed out in a speech delivered on November 23, 1900, popular folk wisdom says that every time a school is closed, a jail must be built.

It passed off fallacious folk wisdom as legitimate research findings.

I'm not a financial expert, but I too question the wisdom of citing an economics professor (as opposed to say, a finance professor) who is recommending annuities period, especially for folks in this age bracket.

Here's my prediction: Using folk wisdom as a guide to long - term financial planning is guaranteed to lose you money in the long term.

Other piquant discussions include rebuttals of folk wisdom, as in an explanation of disciplining a dog after the fact, and clear directions for using set - ups to correct very specific infractions.

As the literary historian Houston A. Baker writes, the blues emerged from a matrix of work songs, group seculars, field hollers, sacred harmonies, proverbial wisdom, folk philosophy, political commentary, ribald humor, elegiac lament, and much more.»

Perhaps it's understandable that a young man like Dylan Thomas (who died at 39) should urge his elders to «Rage, rage against the dying of the light», but older folk might be better advised instead try to find the wisdom to be grateful for a long life, well - lived, and accept the inevitable with as much grace as they can muster.