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On budget matters, he seems to be playing rope-a-dope — waiting for the Republicans to propose something courageous and foolhardy like entitlement reform, thus giving him an opening to step in as the bulwark against extremism.

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Because Jimmy has just been dumped by his socially ambitious girlfriend, Kate Cynthia Watross), he is angry and distressed enough to do something foolhardy -- like grabbing Eddie's gun and forcing him to lie face down on a kitchen counter, where Jimmy binds him in place with some old neckties.

But he emphasizes that we are nonetheless capable of producing enough food to feed the population comfortably, if we didn't engage in foolhardy practices like burning edible crops for fuel.

Choice here can feel more like foolhardy gambling.

The hope that a Trump Presidency might inspire an onslaught of artistic vitality can seem, at this point, like foolhardy consolation.

(We have met the enemy and they are... bloggers?) Certainly, the House Republicans who held their breath until the country turned blue acted like foolhardy children on what John McCain called "a fool's errand".

This seemed like a foolhardy policy to him, but there it was.

It seems like a foolhardy thing to want to go to war, and yet we talk about it among ourselves.

But call me foolhardy, I kind of like the idea of heading into the unknown with just a map in your back pocket knowing that, just maybe, you might get lost.

"I knew that I was being foolhardy by turning up like that in a strange country, but I deeply believed that something would work out for me".

To compete against that is almost foolhardy, so I feel like planning a sequel is an assumption of success that I'm not ready for.

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