Word: foolishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arguments. He would be publicly repudiating some of his own commitments, damaging his reputation as the world's foremost peacemaker and admitting the fruitlessness of his celebrated visit to Jerusalem. His worst enemies in the Arab world would be proven right in their claims that he had made a foolish mistake. I told Sadat that he simply had to stick with me for another day or two, after which, if circumstances did not improve, all of us simultaneously would take the action he was now planning...
...would be foolish for either of two candidates for them not to ask me back after my year of training," he added...
Hard, also, to remember a movie that has more authentically captured the fretfulness of a relationship where nothing is irredeemably wrong but nothing is terribly right. When, on location for her foolish film, Josepha decides to have a vengeful affair, her aim is to shake up, not necessarily break up, her marriage. But it turns out that the drift into separation is neither more nor less uncomfortable to endure than the tuggings and haulings of an old marriage. It does, at least, give everyone a new set of problems to think about, and the novelty is welcome. Josepha lacks...
...energy question is really a question about economic growth and security, which in turn means it is a question about the future of Western society...The stakes are high enough, the uncertainties great enough, the effects persuasive enough that it would be foolish to close our eyes...." Daniel Yergin...
...gruff, obstinate, foolish, flammable, superstitious, supercilious, boorish, brilliant, wonderful manager of the Baltimore Orioles still means to throw himself out of the game after this year...