As the milestone birthday approaches, in an act of "incredibly foolish optimism," she trades in her aged Subaru for a brand-new Toyota and vows never to write a book about her cat.
The slaughter is blamed on a fellow-student, Lord Poxe, who is censured by the Warden with the words "It was a foolish act, Lord Poxe, an act of wanton foolishness, but I do not wish to be hard on you.... Lady Emily Crane, your great aunt, you will remember, married a Mr Arthur Thorn, my grandfather.
Appropriately, then, Ripley's game is an act of elaborate revenge on a social inferior foolish enough to insult his sensibility.
WHILE it is cowardly and foolish not to resist an act of aggression, the best way to deal with a provocation is to ignore it — or so we are taught.
How foolish it seems that some once considered Bradley's position on the national team an act of nepotism because his father, Bob, happened to be the coach.
McKay and Primeau fought midway through the second period, an act some considered foolish on the part of Primeau because he had just returned from a concussion.
In an interview with the Asahi Shimbun, the 72-year-old said he had "very complex feelings" about the war, adding that militarist Japan had acted out of "foolish arrogance".
The bare-chested septuagenarian patriarch only recently gave up windsurfing at night with a flashlight in his headband ("a foolish act of the past"); the brutally funny matriarch whipped up meals that were no less elaborate for being on the fly; their son-in-law was a scratch golfer who, with his own hands, did roof repair and gutter work during his annual stay.
We have a lot of foolish people".
Such was the strength they drew from each other that no act of brave – or foolish – defiance was beyond them.
