Word: foolishness
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...Yeats's life. Behind the book's orchidaceous rhetoric lies the cult of beauty; behind that lies the mystique of art as religion; but behind everything lies the knowledge that however strange his notions, they somehow fed the glories of his poetry. He did not mind seeming foolish...
...insist that everyone take an interest in the Cambridge community would be as foolish as it would be unrealistic. The usual argument for the presence of the undergraduate at Harvard is that he is here to study...
...economy is near collapse. As he grew older, Trujillo embarked on grandiose projects of no merit, lost $35 million on an international fair that flopped in 1956, drained away another $50 million for arms in the space of two years. Trujillo compounded his growing troubles by a foolish and abortive plot to assassinate Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt in Caracas last June. As a result, Trujillo was ostracized by all the other nations of the hemisphere...
Seldom had the West looked so foolish and frustrated as did the foreign ministers gathered in Geneva last week to settle the fate of backward little Laos...
...member of the younger generation, I say it's not all right to be second in space, to lose Cuba to Communism, and to appear foolish to the world. What do we have to do, wait to be blown from our rocking chairs...