Word: fooled
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Britons did not fool themselves about their new budget. When it came down to plain shillings and pence, the tax cuts were small; no Briton was going to need larger pockets. But the tax cuts were a well-timed tonic for the British spirit. A London lady read about them, calculated that they would save her ?70 this year, and promptly asked a painter to paint the front of her house...
...staff: "Any talk from me is unnecessary. It's probably a good thing, because if I had to express my feelings about this announcement to my old colleagues, many of whom have taught me the news business, I'm afraid I'd make a damn fool of myself...
...that of cunning or wise counsel in the art of war. The mind alone, the scholar, the academician, even the satirist is not mocked or belittled--he just does not exist. The play On Baile's Strand sees Cuchalain, the brave, and Conchubar, the wise, parodied by a fool and a blind beggar as a counterpoise. But Yeats is not laughing at his heroes; he is ironically presenting the extremes and tacitly assuming his ideal universal. For his poetry to hit the listener at full power, it must be completely accepted in this context. And when his plays are performed...
...savor rich language. For all his Welsh thunder and soaring, Thomas knows very well what he is up to: "These poems, with all their crudities, doubts and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn fool if they weren...
...Fool! Donkey! Ass!" Papa Wiener was a character in his own right. Omnivorous scholar, fanatical Tolstoyan rigid vegetarian, amateur farmer and heterodox Slavic philologist, Bialystok-born Leo Wiener was an austere and aloof yet somehow lovable paterfamilias. Papa was dissatisfied with ordinary schools and instructed Norbert personally until the boy went to high school. Papa, a good teacher was also an irascible man, and whenever Norbert stumbled, there would come streaming down upon him a flood of invective in German: "Fool! Donkey...