Wayne's most enduring image is that of the displaced loner uncomfortable with the very civilization he is helping to establish and preserve...At his first appearance, we usually sense a very private person with some wound, loss or grievance from the past. At his very best he is much closer to a tragic vision of life...projecting the kind of mystery associated with great acting.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Wayne's most enduring image is that of the displaced loner uncomfortable with the very civilization he is helping to establish and preserve...At his first appearance, we usually sense a very private person with some wound, loss or grievance from the past. At his very best he is much closer to a tragic vision of life...projecting the kind of mystery associated with great acting." in the context of "Andrew Sarris, film historian writing for The New Republic (1979), reprinted in American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now (2006)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.