They say that Manhattan-bred kids are remarkably sophisticated and worldly-wise, but nothing would have kept these munchkins from appreciating your comedic genius.

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All that would happen now, muttered the worldly-wise, was that the election campaign would last for eight miserable weeks instead of four.

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Though unusually, even for rising party people the couple had made a private trip through France and Italy in the 1970s, they were not, in fact, as worldly-wise as many westerners presumed.

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Ah yes, say the worldly-wise of Brussels.

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Nor are local managers always worldly-wise.

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Uninhibited about sex, generous in her affections, worldly-wise, blending solemn or tender recollections with self-deprecating antics, Varda, seemingly freed from fear and shame by age and honors, goes far beyond a tale of life lived in art and makes a work of art in its own right, one of her best a poignant, rapturously emotional tribute to life itself.

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