Obviously, he had explained to me merely what a child would be able to grasp, but it impressed me as much more because my schoolteachers and my father, all of them less great than Einstein, had never forgone a chance to make me feel a perfect fool (and to tell me, lest I should have missed drawing the inference), even when they spoke to me about fractions or equations of the first degree.
And I wonder whether it is because I am such a perfect fool about music that the paradigm shift in my ability to listen to Joni Mitchell became possible.
Madagascar is the perfect place for a white fool to lose his money, Michel says.
This leaves many locals to wonder, "is it the perfect place from which to rule or the perfect fool's folly?" We just want to know how many people are going to be bussed in to greet President Obama.
Holst's works include the opera Sita, composed during 1899 1906; The Hymn of Jesus, for chorus and orchestra (1917); Ode to Death, for chorus and orchestra (1919); The Perfect Fool, an opera (1923); Choral Symphony (1923 24); the opera At the Boar's Head (1925); Double Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra (1929); and Hammersmith, for orchestra (1930).
Towards the end of 1918 Holst had asked Joseph to provide a libretto for his opera The Perfect Fool, feeling that she might possess the required light touch that he thought his own writing lacked.
The perfect fool is a careful balancing act: the tartness of the fruit pitted against the smooth sweetness of the softly whipped cream.
Wynn made his professional debut with the Thurber-Nasher Repertoire Company in Norwich, Conn., in 1902 and acquired the nickname of the Perfect Fool from a revue of the same name in 1921 a production that he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in.
Back when this character really did harken back to Ed Wynn and his Perfect Fool persona.
