Sentences with phrase «wise old»

What a hoot Although the owl trend has been around for a while now, it shows no sign of winging it away from us just yet, with the wise old birds popping up on everything from cushions and bedding to ceramics and wallpaper.

He has wise old eyes, a pointy felt hat, a walking stick and he carries a hobo - styled sack on his back filled with holiday berries and twigs.

But how the wise old wood - gods laugh, Who saw the first primeval calf!

When you're looking to make the jump to an alternative career, there's never going to be a moment where a wise old man says «it's your time.»

In her speech, Judge Sotomayor questioned the famous notion — often invoked by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her retired Supreme Court colleague, Sandra Day O'Connor — that a wise old man and a wise old woman would reach the same conclusion when deciding cases.

One of the wise old men of the Commercial Bar.

A wise old litigation lawyer explained that to me many years ago.

A wise old programmer once told me when you find an error in your code, better canvass that whole area, because there is probably another.

And with a wise old age of 2,300 to 2,700 years, it is also one of the longest - lived of all trees to grace the globe.

Hmm, she looks like a fairly wise old sage if you ask me.

Kicking things off is a search for racing games that feature speed bumps, games that recreate moments from Raiders of the Lost Ark (other than the famous boulder sequence), video games that fall into the «biography» genre, RPGs with mages who are not attractive women or wise old men, and games in which a poor frame rate is used as artistic expression.

A wise old soul who speaks in rhyme; seek his guidance from time to time.

The Fox (i) n those Forests is named Rick and he's conned into helping out the wise old sentient tree by a partridge named Patty he was planning to eat.

Fans of the series will find it hard to forget about the lovable Italian boy who grows into a wise old mentor to aspiring Assassins.

In all stages of the game, a wise old judge will watch over you and award you either a half - point or a full point, depending on how successful a hit has been.

At 98, I was planning on sitting on a mountain as a «wise old man» and having youngsters come to ask for advice.»

Over the years Prather, refuge manager, has gotten to know this wise old bear well.

Amongst the «You're so lucky» comments, there are few that come from wise old owls who understand the bigger picture.

Though he looks gruff, rather like a wise old grandfather, the Spinone is happy and playful, even clownish.

His brow wrinkled in an expression half innocent puppy and half wise old man.

Matching his stern appearance (often likened to a wise old grandfather), he is often aloof with strangers.

Calvin isn't a lot of things, but he is a sweet, wise old boy who deserved better than living in a cage his entire life at a puppy mill.

She a wise old girl who knows how to get her way....

If you can't trick your wise old canine into taking his meds, you may have to open his lower jaw with your hand that has the pill in it, while you hold your upper hand on his upper jaw, lifting his head toward the ceiling.

Patrick gives all the credit to his first dog, Earl, a Jack Russell who lived to the wise old age of 19.

She was a wise old soul in a feline body who shared her wisdom in her own column, «Amber's Mewsings».

But when you break them all down, a similar independent, sensitive, wise old soul is back there, ready to tell you that they know better.

Although puppies are a barrel of fun and cute as the dickens, remember the wise old saying, «Age before beauty.»

The investment industry is filled with a number of wise old sayings.

«The CAPE ratio is not some wise old friend that has been around for centuries.

BE A WISE OLD INVESTOR Whether you are a new retiree or are going to be one soon, there are some real estate mistakes you must be careful about never committing.

That's why I'm so excited that for another $ 1.99, I can also get the professionally - narrated audiobook, hearing the wise old voice of Alan Sklar telling it like a tale of the old frontier.

First, it would be wonderful to envision uniformed men standing guard in front of the plate glass display windows of a local bookseller, protecting the wise old proprietor's livelihood of meaningful tomes.

Whether you're a wise old hand or a terrified newbie, Pocket Dad: Everyday Wisdom, Practical Tips, & andamp; Fatherly Advice, has tons of practical advice on things dads are just expected to know.

Maybe forgotten forever to dust and Sand (get - it) unless there is that old Printed Book to pull me back in... It was a wise old wizard that once said...» It is the doom of man that they forget».

All of the characters — the prince, the princess, and the wise old man — should have something to say.

Summary Capsule: New kid learns karate from a wise old sage in order to win the girl and beat up the bullies.

Special props go out to Michael Clarke Duncan, who voiced the wise old wolf.

It's funny to me that men from one of the most populated places on the planet have, in the American cinema, been reduced to hilarious, impotent sidekicks or wise old men who know kung fu — or is there some kind of Little Richard image - castration going on here to protect delicate Caucasian egos from bedroom Yellow Peril?

When white - trash dreamer Hilary Swank wanders into wise old trainer Clint Eastwood's backstreet gym, another Rocky fairytale looms, yet this modern fable takes us into darker territory — the perilous lure of success and the impassable road to redemption.

By the same token, Nolan is nearly as adept at Tarantino at scripting plum comeback roles for great character actors long off of mainstream Hollywood's radar: Eric Roberts in The Dark Knight, Tom Berenger in Inception, and now Tom Conti, a 1984 Oscar nominee for the unduly forgotten Reuben, Reuben, here playing a wise old man in a faraway prison who, at Bruce Wayne's lowest moment, nurses him back to fighting form.

Seeing Stallone go from the young boxer to the wise old trainer was something I don't think audiences were expecting gravitate towards like we did.

Sentenced to repair the damage he inflicted, Lightning meets a lot of new friends along the way — a hot Porsche named Sally (Bonnie Hunt), a redneck tow - truck named Mater (Larry the Cable Guy), a wise old judge named Do (Paul Newman)-- and begins to realize that, even as a hotrod, life's better sometimes when you can slow down a bit.

Meets wise old Texan, sweet Indian girl, dynamic Italian - speaking Swede who thinks «Vaffanculo» means «screw you».

And Hounsou plays the warlord — a wise old patriarch, as he's described, who uses the superstitious fears of his people to his own ends, with the help of a witch - doctor.

With Fr Flood having secured her a job in an up - scale department store in Manhattan and a wise old owl of a landlady (a brilliant Julie Walters) watching over her in the boarding house where she has been installed, this Wexford girl's new life in the New World looks secure.

Along the way, she encounters a series of sometimes supportive and always stereotypical strangers, including a young mother with a criminal boyfriend and a heart of gold, a wise old black woman, and a goofy male nurse.

Plaza joins the voice cast as the ever - smart Brain the Spider, Slate as Mitzi the narcoleptic Ostrich, Robinson as the mansplaining Bullfrog, Riggle as The Todd the elephant, and Merchant as the wise old Croc.

In a film that doesn't even try to explain the blindness (not that it could), there's room for nothing but symbols and metaphors and the well - diversified group we identify with, which includes an Asian couple (Yusuke Iseya and Yoshino Kimura), the doctor and his wife (Mark Ruffalo and Moore), a wise old black man (Danny Glover), a single woman (Alice Braga), a boy (Mitchell Nye) and a dog (uncredited).

Once a native turned up, I feared the mystical, wise old man stereotype coming into play - and fortunately, it didn't settle for that.