Tottenham, too, had a striker who was extremely animated, but in Crouch's case the energy swept him into folly.
Very occasionally, he is quietly boastful about his own lines – "The Ben I'll never be, / Who remembers him?" from Follies makes him glow with forgivable pride.
It is folly for him to suppose that a knowledge of the New York system will be of the slightest assistance to him.
Hats off to Mos Def, then, who is plainly unbeguiled by the folly around him — you can hear it in his voice, which barely swells beyond a sleepy murmur, as if he had just rolled out of bed.
Whatever his private thoughts on the matter might be, it would have been political folly for him to have done so, for there is now a cross-party consensus against any steps to tighten America's uniquely lax gun laws.
Quiet but one terrible corner exhibited the folly of him taking the set pieces Substitutes Sterling (for Vardy, 66), ran at his full-back and gave England a new ball-carrying point of attack; Wilshere (for Milner, 66), added quick feet and a subtlety of pass which will give Hodgson food for thought; Sturridge (for Kane, 78); Lallana (for Rooney, 78); Henderson (for Alli, 90).
But then there is a level of arrogance and pride that he takes in dismissing respected virtues and symbols (such as the serious motives behind some of our Civil Rights leaders and landmarks) and recreates them as lyrical and musical folly for him to sound "different".
What nags at Josh is not that Jamie reminds him of his younger self but something yet more galling, and more likely to trip him into folly: Jamie makes him wonder what it would be like — and what effort it might take — to become that self again.
What nags at Josh is not that Jamie reminds him of his younger self but something yet more galling, and more likely to trip him into folly: Jamie makes him wonder what it would be like and what effort it might take to become that self again.
It's thrilling to have him specify the sources of the period styles he evokes in "Follies" and to hear him define "pastiche" as "homage without attitude".
