Word: foolishnesses
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...reason is perfectly convincing, largely because Plummer performs the role of Agnes with quivering openness and absolute accuracy. Something in her gentle, husky voice--genetic courtesy of Mother Tammy Grimes--seems tailor made for the part of the young nun. In her hands Agnes degenerates into neither a foolish, mooning saint nor an unbelievable madwoman...
Here is George Orwell, resembling "Don Quixote, very lean and egotistic and honest and foolish; a veritable Knight of the Woeful Countenance ... A kind of dry egotism has burnt him out." Here is Winston Churchill in retirement, "a curious mixture of cunning and animality" pathetically exhibiting an old Boer War poster advertising ?25 for his capture: "It's more than they would offer...
Burr confirmed the impression held by Ackerman and others of the Corporation's outlook by saying. "We have been burnt many times before and it's cost a lot of money. There have been many times that we felt foolish, when in retrospect we would have been better to cancel the whole thing...
Bertagna said earlier this week that he has "no faith" that a construction company will complete the stadium work by next fall. "I just have a gut feeling that it would be foolish to try to meet the September 15 deadline," he added...
...just have a gut feeling that it would be foolish to try to meet the September 15 deadline," Bertagna said...