He hardly fits the stereotype of the grizzled, wizened pro.
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The one who would rest his wizened hand on Jesus' bosom.
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Now that I'm old and wizened I can finally get one.
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Even babies in medieval artworks are depicted as wizened miniature adults.
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Now that I'm old and wizened and wise, I know things.
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How'd she get so wizened in the ways of Solo cups?
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The wizened old executives at IBM cannot be oblivious to this fact.
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"America never gets tired of bombs," a wizened porter tells the couple.
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Michael Flatley's going to be doing a wizened old Riverdance at the inauguration.
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A wizened old man came up to me, smiling from ear to ear.
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In trading halls full of elderly day-traders, white-haired ladies sit alongside wizened men.
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If Dinosaurs... FuckedA wizened Carcharodontosaurus (Al Pacino) lies entwined with a young, topless Iguanodon (Shailene Woodley).
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Justice Harry Blackmun, Roe's wizened author, could not mask his surprise at the reversal of fortune.
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He is a wizened presence in a room full of idiots, an old tree among sprigs.
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Wizened and grizzled, tough and smart, not just ready for battle but positively looking forward to it.
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Scholars call it the "Yoda effect" — the wizened Muppet was an old rebbe, teaching the ancient wisdom.
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The wizened little ventricle of my contrite heart that you just stitched your name into is bleeding.
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Because he could have punched me in the face or done anything to me, this… wizened punk elf.
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Henry suddenly sees a split-second flash of a gruesome, wizened face when he looks at The Kid.
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Mr Juncker's wizened features and sometimes halting delivery embodied the drain of power from the institution he represents.
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The images show a wizened tree and a Mother's Day-worthy bouquet juxtaposed against the edge of our planet.
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Instead he's going to assume the role of Wizened Elder and give some words of wisdom in mangled syntax.
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For its first annual Senior Dog Prom, the organization wants every wizened canine to join in on the fun.
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Thanos looks like a wizened hunk of clay or, as one Twitter user pointed out, a computer-generated phallus.
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Just ask wizened, white-tufted Bernie Sanders, 74, whose campaign is the one most clearly buoyed by young voters.
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Some of them have cheeky grins; others are wizened hags; one is depicted wiggling out of a demon's mouth.
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Years of diaper changes and then potty training turned me from a poo-analysis novice to a wizened connoisseur.
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In the presence of the mourners, or mobsters, who've delivered him, the son reveals the old man's wizened face.
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They had seemed so ancient to themselves in those awful days, so darkened and wizened by experience and bitterness.
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Even in her Peter Pan collar and Polly Flinders dress, Wanda wears a wizened, plaintive look at the end.
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The partnership won't just involve putting Elsa's picture on an orange or slapping Yoda's wizened mug on some broccoli.
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A photo of a wizened old man looked out across the room from a shelf above the neatly made bed.
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In December 2009, the wizened West Virginia Democrat overcame fragile health to cast a crucial vote for the act's passage.
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Making new friends requires real risk that I'm less willing to take, now that I'm in my old, wizened late twenties.
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Meanwhile, encouraged by the regional government—dominated by Basque nationalists—public schools began to teach in Euskara; wizened bertsolaris gave lessons.
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Mr. Olivier suggested that wizened grown-ups need to make the whole subject much more bloodless, long before writing any letters.
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Before the movie ends, his hair has turned gray and his prematurely wizened face has frozen in a mask of terror.
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It was a wizened old man and his son who used to go out onto the streets picking up rubbish to sell.
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For the average South African, the name Orania conjures images of wizened old racists wasting away in the hot and lonesome Karoo.
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Yachty is the Rapper Who's Having The Most Fun Right Now, the analogue of Chance, his less spiritually-inclined, less wizened junior.
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At 210, she does not look whittled, wizened or weathered or any one of those wheezy words we use for old bodies.
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In "Passage," a wizened Ethiopian man ends a pilgrimage for absolution, while a Connecticut woman with emphysema extols the value of prayer.
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WITH RHEUMY eyes and a face wizened by the sun, Narayanappa looks down to the ground and then, slowly, up to the skies.
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It all fitted a cliché of Japan's boardrooms as an all-Japanese, all-male club where wizened bosses ruthlessly enforce wa, or harmony.
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Whenever I visit, his elderly neighbors, wizened and bent over from their farm work, peer into my face and exclaim my mother's name.
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In this episode, the title character (played by Hank Azaria) goes on an epic bender with the wizened ballplayer Pedro Uribe (Hemky Madera).
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The franchise has a long history of gifted young people getting help from wizened mentors, but that doesn't appear to be the case here.
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Despite what many wizened rave veterans would like you to believe, ecstasy is more popular in the UK now than it's ever been before.
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There's a church in the second Dark Souls that serves as a comparative safehouse, watched over by a legless, wizened hag in tattered robes.
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And they depict out-of-the-way characters who bleakly dwell in relative seclusion, wizened men and women whose lives are crabbed and gritty.
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People have wizened up to the voodoo economics Republicans use to sell special giveaways to big donors like the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson.
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Ms. Carr Falsetta said she grew up near the bowling alley in Sunset Park, knocking around with the wizened neighborhood teenagers on the street.
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She's in her late 2360s and wizened; she runs her household without any signs of fatigue, despite having several children and another on the way.
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As I reached the ripe, wizened era of my early teens, though, I just started being able to do a bit more of the puzzle.
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Her wizened face is tattooed in the traditional Berber style, and a swath of dark curls untouched by any gray pokes out from beneath her headscarf.
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Because I am a wizened old crone of 30, I have had many long years to consider the follies of my youth, and achieve true wisdom.
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Lange hid her own wizened right leg with wide leg trousers, not skirts, but recognized a shared gait when she first met Kahlo in November 1930.
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The structures that divided the aristocracy, the gentry, and the working class started to crumble, although older generations grasped at those social designations with wizened hands.
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The novel is as bitter as gall and has Nathanael West's dark ironies, yet it's overdetermined and musty, a wizened pelt stretched over a taxidermist's mannequin.
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It's a fever dream, the kind that plagues you after nights spent drinking with your wizened fisherman buddy as wild storms rage outside your clapboard shutters.
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At the wizened age of 25, I'm just old enough to remember when computers were primarily used for making things, instead of just passively consuming content.
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Cue muttering from the wizened seniors at the clubhouse bar: Erin Hills, which had only been established in 22000, was hardly befitting of the devilish US Open.
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Among them are the wizened Professor X, a peaceful educator, and his radical "old friend" Magneto, whose band of powerful rogue allies want mutant superiority, not equality.
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The researchers were surprised to find that despite centuries of art depicting God as an elderly, wizened old white man, people leaned toward a younger, softer visage.
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I sampled meats here — I'm thinking about those wizened strands of pulled pork during my September visit — that were essentially unpalatable without a long squeeze of sauce.
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Uncle Sher, as the staff affectionately called him, was wizened and white-haired but only 60; he died in the ambulance on his way to the hospital.
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"Honestly, I have so much rage," Ms. Case said over vegan food in Brooklyn last month, her trademark auburn hair piled high atop wisps of wizened gray.
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The Monet who emerges from King's pages is a sympathetic and vivid character — less the wizened patriarch of French Impressionism than a crotchety septuagenarian afflicted with toothaches.
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And if Rams coach Sean McVay wins, he will become the youngest coach in history to win the Super Bowl, at the wizened age of just 33.
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With the exception of the roasted beets, which were wizened and insipid, the interplay of textures and tastes — nutty crunch, sour yogurt, sweet and vinegary beets — was marvelous.
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Back home in Philadelphia, this attitude endears him to a Pennsylvania mob boss named Russell Bufalino (Mr Pesci, riveting as a dapper but wizened goblin, dripping with evil).
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His son, himself a wizened old man, is nonplussed by the news; he looks like an eccentric, or maybe the village drunk—Gadappa they call him, "beard man".
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Resigned to Tinder, to emoticons, to their partners' beards and online pornography habits, they've slid past quarter-life crises while munching on, perhaps, a wizened community-garden radish.
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Other oddballs Romy encounters include a wizened Indian woman (Q'orianka Kilcher), who renames her Sky, and Billie (Lena Dunham), a pregnant trailer park resident with a missing tooth.
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Still, some Britons were confused over why the prince, the wizened and gaffe-prone Duke of Edinburgh who is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was even driving.
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And he's just bored, like playing with a punch ball, which happens to be the wizened head of a Moor that some ancestors brought back from the Crusades.
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They've zealously guarded the wizened trees that shade Folly's interior and kept most of the beach open to surfers and surf schools — creating a distinctly Caro-Californian vibe.
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Mr Lucas added this twist to the script upon writing "The Empire Strikes Back", in 1980, which has the wizened green Jedi master Yoda saying "there is another [hope]".
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The sheltered port is now a marina for super-yachts, although a wizened ferryman shuttles humbler travellers from the Birgu quays to those of Senglea, directly across from them.
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They tell tales of supplies piled atop camels and flirtations with entrancing local women and negotiating with turbaned mechanics to eke a few more miles out of wizened vans.
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Even wizened strategist Ben (Kevin Dunn) is exploring new opportunities, though a disastrously non-PC meeting at Uber ends his political consulting career before it even gets off the ground.
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Set in 1887, the movie finds Dench's Queen Victoria bent and wizened, an octogenarian who has outlived most of her contemporaries and has little use for the toadies around her.
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Here's Sam Tanenhaus with a more upbeat take: But first, what besides youth sets millennials apart from their elders — the wizened silent generation, the graying boomers, the midlife Gen-X'ers?
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Dhewedza doesn't — maybe can't — say what the men with machetes who fell upon her village late one night did to her, but her wizened hands tell part of the story.
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The humor is sometimes as obvious as the hairless cat that looks like a wizened extraterrestrial and the Velcro crackle of a girdle being hastily removed in a dark bedroom.
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Alongside the Met's van Eycks is a recently resurfaced drawing of the Crucifixion, lent by Rotterdam's Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, whose wizened Virgin and writhing thieves rhyme with the painted version.
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And I had a vague idea of what he looked like, thanks to an old boyfriend's record collection: his gnarled, crooked grin; his leonine head with wizened cheeks and dark eyes.
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It was my introduction to the widespread delusion that jockeys, with their compact bodies and wizened and secretive faces, are in league with the Devil in this most devilish of games.
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A Madonna and child, wizened to the point where their awkward postures resemble a Rublev or Dionisius ikon pose on a backless plastic bench in the great hall of some airport.
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While little of this information will be surprising to people who've heard of Crispr, these sophisticated renderings offer a new layer of understanding to all but the most wizened gene editor.
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My overall impression from the visit was of something out of a Thomas Mann novel: faded grandeur and an air of antique stillness, overseen by a wizened and mildly vexed aristo.
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Fortner is just 24455, but the New Orleans-born pianist — who's often clad in a loose smoking jacket and fedora — carries himself with the wizened, avuncular comportment of a jazz elder.
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The wizened, ripened Sontag hovers above her younger self in a filmed recording like a chain-smoking, skunk-haired deity, commenting both on the hopefulness and foolishness of her past self.
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Livingston's subjects are eclectic, from the delicate ingénue Venus Xtravaganza to the wizened veteran Dorian Corey, but they all seem to take at least some comfort in their own theatrical self-mythology.
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But unlike To All The Boys I've Loved Before or Set It Up, this movie deals not with young love, but with adults, wizened by their years and set in their ways.
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I'd noticed him standing guard outside an Arab unit's position one morning, and was struck by the sight of a man so wizened and fragile wearing a uniform and holding a Kalashnikov.
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Since I still had a few years before entering wizened-crone territory, I figured I had plenty of time to get pregnant in what I considered the "right" way: spontaneously and naturally.
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It's true that the links between our carbon emissions and any particular drought are convoluted, but over all, climate change is as palpable as a wizened, glassy-eyed child dying of starvation.
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It also needs to decide where to put bus stops for the hundreds of shuttle buses that creep through its streets, gathering wizened, under-caffeinated developers for their journeys to jolly Mountain View.
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If this is supposed to be a big "Dallas"-style epic filled with family intrigue and hoisted petticoats, it's as if they conjured a slightly wizened J.R. but nobody else of much note.
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Meet a pair of Bangladeshi train surfers, plugged-in Tokyo kids, and a wizened woman smoking a Cuban cigar in this sneak peek from the National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year contest.
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This book nails the subculture perfectly, from the wizened old professionals at the bar to the writers and artists holding down tables to the actresses and cosplayers who are brought in as attractions.
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And then they turned out to not be my friends at all and to, in fact, still be carrying toxicity, pulsing through their veins and gushing in and out of their wizened aortas.
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Last year the luxury giant Céline raised eyebrows by introducing the octogenarian Joan Didion as the face of the brand; in its fall advertising, Dolce & Gabbana prominently featured a pair of wizened nonnas.
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Obi-Wan has a pretty considerable history in the franchise, from an Apprentice to Qui-Gon Jinn, as a master to Anakin Skywalker, to the wizened hermit that we see in A New Hope.
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Everyone in Hollywood knows that a movie set is the easiest place to find a date, but a few wizened survivors of former celebrity portmanteaus can tell you: it's also where relationships fall apart.
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An old and wizened Dermot O'Leary says his next guest, coming up, will be retired footballer Dele Alli who will be talking about his new BBC4 documentary on the history of the card trick.
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Only after the tree had been felled and he counted its rings did he realize that he had just slain the oldest known tree on Earth, which was then a wizened 23,900 years old.
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This pursuit leads to Juliana Bordereau, an Aspern acquaintance and possible former lover, and one of those wizened mysteries of fiction with a fantastic past and a terminally defeated companion for a chew toy.
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Attendees of the United Nations General Assembly, normally a scripted annual gathering of presidents, prime ministers and wizened diplomats, do not typically break decorum, let alone laugh at the most powerful man in the room.
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Herminia Borja, a head taller than Ms. Pericet and wizened with age, sings as though she were extracting her own internal organs, a wringing of the heart matched by violent gesticulations that mangle the air.
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Two hours of stirring—and sprinkling in faster-cooking items like lentils and broccoli—later (because that's how long it takes to cook the wizened flesh of an old mutton leg) and dinner is ready!
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But this hoary association of wizened character actors are ill-disposed to heed this jumped-up, medieval Bart Simpson, tasked with writing "I will not supply plot exposition without proof" a hundred times on the blackboard.
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Completed a year before his death, in 28, at the age of eighty, it pictures a wizened man standing in semi-silhouette against the bright yellow of a studio wall that is hung with indistinct paintings.
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With all these newer, younger heroe coming up, Tony is starting to feel more like the wizened old mentor archetype in every hero story, a la Obi-Wan in Star Wars or Dumbledore in Harry Potter.
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But the "wizened freak" with sharp claws and teeth turns out to be a moneymaker when displayed for admission at a local coffeehouse, and customers bewitched by the attraction of repulsion make Hancock a wealthy man.
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A decade later he battled an addiction to prescription medication after his jaw was shattered in a fight scene, an accident that left him wizened and led to false whispers that he was dying of AIDS.
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He has managed to become neither a wizened oracle nor an oldies act, and his best songs convey the appealing sensation of listening to a guy who is still trying to figure out what he's doing.
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I can't overstate how moved I was to see American soldiers literally assaulted in South Mitrovica with hugs and tears by wizened Albanian gentlemen after seeing our small group with their U.S. flags on their shoulders.
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Some encouraged rigorous cycle-charting, others proposed affirmations and positive thinking, and a few acknowledged that "older women" (I quickly learned that in fertility terms, this means wizened crones over 34) might need to see a doctor.
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As Jimmer continues to yell, Starbury, wizened with age, heads back to the bench, taking a supportive arm from his coach, Liu Peng, who is coaching in pre-distressed and weathered jeans and a gigantic striped sweatshirt.
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A mid-'50s picture of a bronzed, not-so-young couple sunning themselves on a pool deck in Los Angeles acts as both a reminder of "the golden age of sunbathing" and a "wizened deterrent" against it.
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In 2016 Raminisoa travelled to the northern region of Sava, where vanilla has been grown for generations, to learn how to cure the green pods into the commodity that was in such demand: pungent and wizened black beans.
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The lyrics and hooks aren't as succinct as the ones she has written for her EP. Now, vocally, RALPH sounds like a wizened, slick pop singer, a la Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks' jangling harmonies and tightly constructed songs.
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Two indelible examples are the wizened tea-sipping ladies of "Daughters of Revolution" (1932) and the cartoonish retelling of George Washington and the cherry tree, presented as a diorama-like scene-within-a-scene, in "Parson Weems' Fable" (1939).
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This fastidious portrayal of a wizened farmer and his deflated-looking female companion (wife or daughter?) standing before a white board and batten house with a Gothic-style, second-story window, was hailed as a truly, purely American art.
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Told from the perspective of a wizened old Freud, Hysteria's narrative spans from his early lectures on the wonders of cocaine to his training with Jean-Martin Charcot at La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, which housed 5,000 mostly female mental patients.
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When you're young and you take your first job behind a bar, if you're lucky enough to be in the company of wizened lifers, smirkingly amused by your greenery, you're quickly inundated with a confounding mix of bar arcana and cliche.
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HUSH consists of a single continuous shot of a domestic interior wherein two figures, a preteen girl and a wizened young woman, interact with one another and their surrounding scene, characterized by mystically melancholy blue and purple lights in every corner.
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This psychological phenomenon has become so familiar that wizened entrepreneurs like Andreessen Horowitz's Scott Weiss have given it cute names like the WFIO ("we're f*cked, it's over") to disarm it and help you recognize that it's going to be okay.
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I imagined that the "poor diet" was a reference to high-fat, high-carb, highly processed convenience foods that are making 20- and 30-year-old penises behave like wizened and world weary ding-dongs two or three times their age.
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SHANGHAI — Beijing's alliance with the World Economic Forum started in 1979 with the arrival in Davos, Switzerland, of a small team of free-market economists led by a wizened Chinese intellectual, Qian Junrui, who had barely survived Mao's Cultural Revolution.
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When they meet a wizened old man on their journey, so the tale goes, he directs them "to find Death, turn up this crooked way" and points them to a glistening casket of gold buried in the roots of the tree.
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The knobbly-kneed old bastard's still wearing the terrible tie-dye he looked awful in the first time round, and despite the slack-jawed slimes he's directing at your innermost core, his wizened, weathered, haunted visage masks a Baikal-deep sadness.
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Brown's lyrics have always contained multitudes, but Atrocity Exhibition features his strongest writing yet, touching on everything from smoke breaks to erectile dysfunction to the unceasing grind of life on the road with a deft mix of humor, sadness, and wizened reflection.
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Inside another tower, three mourners from Greece, dressed in comfortable travel clothes, sat together on a ledge like old friends wizened by life and sang in a kind of call and response, their voices made piercing by the acoustics in the soaring column.
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Each of those three is endearing and exasperating: Wayne, a friendly hunter with a disturbing past; Henry, a wizened fisherman whose wife of more than 50 years has died; and Zach, a young man struggling to move away and manage his own troubles.
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Under immense national scrutiny, this 29-year-old (a wizened age for a footballer, but young in almost any other industry) was told he had no value by his manager and, within three weeks of learning this, moved to a new country.
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My Facebook timeline and WhatsApp group chats with family and friends were populated with cautious expressions of hope, photos of index fingers dipped in indelible election ink, and of wizened makciks and pakciks waiting in the sweltering heat for their turn at the ballot box.
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With his new documentary, The Lure, British documentarian Tomas Leach employs a quiet lyricism to compose a portrait of these fanatic treasure hunters and their relationship with Fenn, the wizened old man with a twinkle in his eye pulling the strings on their feverish quest.
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Finicky about food, for years she was miniature, like an elf or a wizened old woman; at puberty, she grew suddenly tall and got an appetite, her limbs and her waist thickened, her skin became waxy, and her hair, which had been fair, turned to mud-brown.
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But while the figures in the paintings are intended to evoke people "from another realm," Samson says, rather than resorting to clichéd depictions of ancestors (wizened elders draped in skins, for example), he renders them as youthful visitors who wear jeans and play with inflatable pool toys.
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Similarly, "Give Yourself a Try," on which Healy asks "What would you say to your younger self?" before dispensing advice on drinking whiskey and growing a beard, could be seen as a wizened, almost-30-year-old speaking gently to the army of teens who hang on his words.
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These are decisions made by a handful of ultra-cosseted weirdos—the failson scions of century-old industrial fortunes and wizened petro-reptiles and dead-eyed serial accumulators—who are not at all accustomed or inclined towards taking the rest of the world's opinions, or facts, into account.
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Through her eyes, we see the cast of characters that populate her life: her older brothers, Douglas (Gage Naquin) and James (Gavin Naquin); her young neighbor and friend, Thomas (Krzysztof Meyn), whose grandmother owns the train-side diner; and the wizened regulars who cheerfully chuckle at their downtrodden circumstances.
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Inevitably, the salty breeze transforms even their hardiest wooden furniture into wizened sculptures: Alesch has had to repeatedly resuscitate a pair of low elm benches that have buckled at the joints, and an antique rowboat is eroding behind the warped wooden picnic table at the front of the property.
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Unlike his Canadian counterpart, the American president's hair is now gray, his speeches wizened by his experiences — and his message is likely to reflect the hard lessons he has learned as he has tried for nearly eight years to curb the climate-warming emissions of Canada's neighbor to the south.
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While I am one of those increasingly stooped and wizened diners who remembers, in detail, Mr. DiSpirito's cooking at Union Pacific, far more people recall him as the meatball-pushing antihero of "The Restaurant," an NBC series about Rocco's on 22nd, an actual (and doomed, it turned out) Italian-American restaurant.
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Mela Murder, who plays Halley's friend and fellow single mom, landed the role after Mr. Baker saw her in the short film "Gang," and Sandy Kane, the New York personality known as Times Square's wizened "Naked Cowgirl," won the part of a Magic Castle resident with a penchant for topless sunbathing.
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There was this place in London, Ray's Jazz Shop, and you'd go in there and there'd be these wizened old crones behind the counter browbeating each other about Coleman Hawkins, and you'd ask a question, and they'd kind of scowl at you and deliver this lesson on Charlie Parker, you stupid boy.
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You and your long-haired paramour are happily frolicking along some faraway beach, when all of a sudden, a familiar but wizened-looking peach—its skin wrinkled beyond its years and the light faded from its cartoon eyes—approaches you and desperately begins to try and sell you a puka-shell-encrusted T-shirt.
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I was apparently the only one who thought of checking the school records for 1972, and I discovered that Ms Schatten—old, wizened and scatterbrained as she is now—used to be a very foxy young teacher who was once let go many years ago because of an irritating tendency to "boop" her pupils.
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These feats of strength were delivered in near real-time to legions of plugged-in baseball fans; breathless reports and grainy video of bombastic blasts that, in years past, would only arrive weeks after the fact in the pages of Baseball America or cryptic second hand scout-speak relayed via a wizened ex-jock turned broadcaster.
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These are old-line, rock-ribbed American plutocrats—plummy real-estate lords and more than one actual felon, wizened petro-creeps and dynasty inheritors so grandiose and so thunderously dumb that they can turn the free agent signing of a serial domestic abuser into an occasion to weigh in on the moral failings of the urban poor.
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Early on, while taking us on a whistle-stop tour of his cinematic career and the maddening mores of Hollywood, he speaks to us not as the enfant terrible, the Pope of Trash or the Prince of Puke we might expect, but as a canny and wizened realist who has been able to work the system, even when it has failed him.
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I am just fascinated by the idea that—after searching the globe, after being turned down by every legitimate artist and some illegitimate ones too (I mean, Rebecca Ferguson off The X Factor said no, like, a Bruce Springsteen covers band said no)—that whoever was in charge of entertainment plumped for this really enthusiastic drummer guy and Michael Flatley, wizened old Lord of the Dance.
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The show weaves a loose tale of Gorey's life: it takes the audience from his college years at Harvard — where he shared a room with Frank O'Hara and got rejected by The New Yorker — to his New York life in the 1960s and '70s — when he attended every performance choreographed by George Balanchine for the New York City Ballet — to his older, wizened days living alone (with pets) on Cape Cod.
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On the Tijuana side, a city park next to a bullring, three master musicians who were invited guests appeared as flickers of light and color through the fence: Adriana Cao Romero, a harpist and dentist from Mexico City; Alddo Flores, from Veracruz, playing a carved gourd he strums with a bicycle spoke; and Felix Machucho, a 68-year-old farmer and wizened master of verse from rural Veracruz who had flown in an airplane for the first time to be there.
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