Word: foolishnesses
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...wear blue jeans because the rock didn't really need the skin transplants it exacted from you. And even then your jeans grew white patches on the seat, and on the knees too if you were ever that foolish. The finest kind of slide was headfirst, though--the same way these friends of mine went at life, down a slope, no brakes, wide-open, kind a stupid when you come right down to it. There were three dips in the rock near the bottom, and if you played them right you could come flying off the rock...
...Rose, who refused to give her last name or her address as she stood waiting in line outside the U.S. Consulate in Jamaica: "You foolish to ask silly questions about why we want to go to States. I go to New York to get good work, not just $20 a week. Foolish questions...
...commonplace book, Thomas Jefferson has included a favorite quotation from Euripides: "For with slight efforts, how should one obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it." Those few words aptly characterize Jefferson himself. He has never done anything lightly or halfheartedly, and all his life the young author of the Declaration of Independence has made great efforts to obtain great results...
That's Harry Hanson, a professor at the B-School (center, wearing glasses), chortling over the denouement (right, wearing G-string) of an elaborate practical joke perpetrated by two of his students. The future corporate leaders of America explained later, "We wanted to do something incredibly foolish...
Love Portraits. Miss Herbert, Stead's newest novel, is less ambitious. It is about a foolish woman, carefully framed and lighted so that the outside world exists only as dim periphery. The focus is entirely on the beautiful Eleanor Herbert, a variation on the Steadian observation that the English are not self-conscious hypocrites. Instead, as the author once wrote, they display "a natural ingrained double face from birth. They're the Western Chinese: old and smooth with deceit...