a quadrat, solid, wise man

And had she even once mentioned that in reality Beauty was a hostage suffering from Helsinki syndrome?

It happened that in a talk for the Overseas Service he referred to Dublin as 'the Irish capital'. The disc had been played by mistake on the Home Service and so [George] Marshall had heard it. Johnston parried Marshall’s complaint by asserting that what he really said was 'It is the Eirish capital'!

Shakespeare, of course, called life a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage... and James Thurber continued: It's a tale told in an idiom, full of unsoundness and fury, signifying nonism.