Word: foolishnesses
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...parallels between Evelyn's dilemmas about her future and her lover are heavy-handed and trite, and the authors make Evelyn seem shallow and foolish. Her realization that she does not need a man's guidance attempts to save the play from sexism, but this epiphany still comes much too late...
There is little to argue with here. Railing against something you can do nothing about may be morally satisfying, but it can be strategically foolish...
...what his grievances against Moscow, should want to see the violent collapse of the largest country on earth, since it could escalate into World War III. Some secessionists, recalling how Western nations sent troops into Russia in 1918-19, may think the West would do so again. That is foolish. The Soviet Union's enormous stockpile of nuclear weapons alone would prevent outsiders from intervening...
...course it would be foolish to pretend that "no" has always meant "no" in the bedroom. As Morgan points out, "the language of courtship is not clear." It is precisely because of this ambiguity that acquaintance rape is so prevalent. And because the "language of courtship" has not been clear, it must be made clear now. Because women do not want to be raped, and men do not want to be rapists, we must all work together to eradicate rape...
...experts are foolish enough to predict that peace will obliterate America's severe economic woes -- its mountains of debt, its banking crisis, its depressed real estate market. But a consensus holds that peace and national pride will at least erase the preoccupation with war and TV bulletins that has turned the slush of a winter's recession into a frozen economic tundra. Among the areas showing signs of a peace-prompted thaw...