Sagely

[…] Phil offering and giving advice sagely and gravely

This pro-war impression on the populace the Navy Department sagely foresaw when it sent its men into the unbriny Northwest.

The sheikh comes back in, and slowly, we can become a little more personal in our discussion and he nods sagely and then renods.

Dr. Ed Wheat has sagely said, “Every physical union should be a contest to see which partner can outplease the other.”

It begins sufficiently well, but the author has hardly enunciated his preliminary apotheems, when he conducts into an obscurity where we can hardly grope our way, and when we emerge from that, it is to be bewildered by his gorgeous but unsubstantial pictures of sagely perfection.

Featuring a sagely captain, a first officer with aerodynamic lobes, riveting adventures and special effects unheard of for its time, the show gained unbelievable notoriety across the globe.

He had been both case study and examiner of the effects of ostracism, now wielding a sagely sort of nuance in essays like “Letter to Prisoners” (1983), an early draft of which is on view at the Schomburg: “What artists and prisoners have in common,” he writes, “is that they both know what it means to be free.”