Word: foolishness
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...robbed of the worst, or the best, past is not a theft but a gift. Anouilh further argues, without his later agile irony and cogent wit, that a man can indeed escape his past, which suggests that the young playwright still harbored at least one fond and vastly foolish illusion...
...people of Cuba will feel they have an equal right to help, with all resources available to them, the revolutionary movements in all countries that practice such interference in our country's domestic affairs." The U.S. embargo? Why, the Europeans have made it a mockery. "It is foolish to believe," said Castro, "that the countries of Europe, whose markets the U.S. wants to take away, will go along with this ridiculous proposal...
...Americans are foolish to be ready so soon," sniffed the Soviet coach. "We will be ready when it counts-at the Olympics in October." Back home, a Russian sports publication reported: "The fact that we lost can be explained by the unusual-for our athletes-meteorological conditions called smog." There was something else. Despite their fantastic sports program, the Russians have apparently failed to develop much in the way of young athletes. The same faces appear year after year, and they are getting old and tired. This year's Russian men averaged two years older than their U.S. counterparts...
...problem with this approach is that it totally ignores character. Witwoud (Davil Anderson) and Petulant (Armand Asselin), for example, are foolish fops, but they are charming in their absurdity...
...hospital hanky-panky is still there. All the droll British bit players. All the anatomical jokes, delivered by Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) and Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice), whose medicareers have provided them with a decade of job security. But the humor has grown progressively more frail, foolish and familiar. Nobody really cares when the adipose Sir Lancelot goes on a diet to win the love of his physiotherapist, and deep within the tissue of this feeble jest is what sounds like a cry for help. Clearly, the Doctors are begging to be put out of their misery...