Word: foolish
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...privacy level. If a student is intent upon having a more unsavory online reputation, he or she should simply opt for a more exclusive level of privacy. While frustrating for those students who hate being denied access to any profile, it is a more reasonable option than risking looking foolish in front of prospective employers...
...praise of Le Pen’s “wisdom.” No one has contributed more to the spread of racism in France than Jean-Marie Le Pen during his long political career. To describe Le Pen as a “tactless and sometimes foolish old man” would strike the majority of French citizens—of all possible heritages, backgrounds, faiths, and political tendencies—as, at the very least, a very bad joke...
...soon reveal themselves to be merely a deceptively hot bosom beneath a corset, like the one Lil’ Kim wore in the “Lady Marmalade” video. Beneath the idealistic veneer were the fat, naked breasts of truth, ready to bust out and stifle anyone foolish enough to be tricked by the façade. Thus, we quickly realized that these proverbial breasts couldn’t possibly live up to real boobs on the Internet...
...transportation at 3 a.m., but I never hit traffic driving up my street. I cannot eat at the latest ethnic fusion restaurant, but I can go apple picking. Suburbia has reduced the choices I have to make in life, and in effect, simplified things. Of course, it would be foolish to say that Hamden has more going on than New York (it doesn’t) or is more diverse (it isn’t) or can provide me with more opportunities (it can’t), but a simplicity pervades it that will never appear in New York...
...more importantly, their proportion to the population as a whole, will increase dramatically over the next 20 to 30 years. Simply pretending this isn’t going to occur or that it will have no consequences does nothing to solve the problem.Le Pen is a tactless and sometimes foolish old man, if not the fascist monster he is made out to be, but he is right to note the serious problems associated with a “French” society and culture slowly but surely becoming something else. This doesn’t mean there aren?...