This is the reiterated message from the gods of which the daily press delivers itself so sapiently, and by which it maintains its popularity and power. |
I am talking here about Iceland, the strange and wonderful and small — three hundred and twenty thousand people — country from which I have just returned, having sapiently bored students at a fine writer's retreat. |
Needing a quick drink after our shocking experience, we repaired to Garavan's and discoursed sapiently before the Merc had to get home to her indoors with the rolling pin. |
As Ernest Renan would sapiently note later in the century, bad history is the handmaiden of nationalists. |
I can hear the art historians of the future speculating sapiently on her mood, her melancholy, even on her relation to the painter. |
Their saving grace was a truth commission, sapiently releasing anger to spill where hurt harbours healing. |