These include a lack of job security, neurotic supervision by helicopter parents and the gaudy blandishments of advertising, which fuel consumption and anxiety.
Wartime leaders rely on rhetoric and bravado; yet with its life-and-death stakes, war is the coldest, hardest of realities, and calls for virtues that are the opposite of acting.
By his knack of sermonizing and pious discoursing, he contrived to make a great impression on Mr Earnshaw; and the more feeble the master became, the more influence he gained.
And so I think that there is definitely sort of this -- you know, we talk about the " consumerization of enterprise." Those are just fancy words for saying the way ...
For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life, to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventurous.
Wisdom is the ability to ask good questions, to spot bullshit, to not fall for scams and conspiracies, to know what's too good to be true, to be able to spot a smooth talker or a demagogue or a salesperson or a grifter.
I memorised my flowery talk and rehearsed it to the trees and cows a hundred times. I was so eager to make a good showing for my mother's sake that I must have spoken with emotion. At any rate, I was awarded the first prize.