Word: foolishness
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...appearance is not shown in a flattering light. At several points he makes disparaging remarks on the feasibility of instituting a perfect social order, and several conversations in the book that serve only to carry a philosophical point indicate that to Solzhenitsym attempts in that direction are dangerously foolish. Alternatives are tentatively presented, as he toys with the idea of a technocracy and makes the historically accurate assertion that early in the 20th century the Russian Empire was making rapid industrial progress. But he does not develop the themes or implications...
Mildred Dunnock read the poems as though she knew what they meant. Which is a crime not because she didn't knew what they meant, but because anyone who would stake their life on the meaning of one of Emily Dickinson's poems is foolish. At any rate it is doubtful that the poems had the kind of meaning that the cadences in Dunnock's voice suggested. Dunnock used the rhythms we ordinarily use in pronouncing rational sentences, which would suggest that rationality, as opposed to emotion, is of little use in getting at Emily Dickinson's poems...
Though Fiedler was entertaining, he was, of course being foolish First. Tolstoy's faith in art was based in Christian humanism, in the belief that every man had basic principles which could be appealed to by the sincere and talented artist Fiedler, on the other hand hopes for some mass tribal evolution. And he misread even the processes by which an audience experiences television in order to buttress his argument. Do people care all that deeply about what they see on the tube? If they do aren't they first primed by commercial manipulators who bombard them with verbal publicity...
...McGovern campaign is another Children's Crusade, as foolish as the first and equally destined to fail...
Still shy of 30, the hero of this Gatling-gun novel has been a reporter, an on-camera TV newsman and an actor whose best-known performances were as Tarzan and a cowpoke on a foolish series called Six Guns Across Texas. John Lee Wallace, fed up with Hollywood, returns home to Dallas, leaving a vapor trail of dope and alcohol. He and his best buddy Buster plan to make "one good, true, fair thing"-a documentary film about the real Texas. The time is the late summer...