Lost inside that film, I can still imagine myself, just as I used to as an adolescent, as Holly Martins (played by Joseph Cotten), the feckless, foolish, well-meaning idiot that he is.
Regional names abound, some of which translate as "dancing beast", "foolish beast", or "idiot".
Afanti thinks that those who gather around to watch a spectacle are more foolish than he – they are idiots.
"Moros = dull, foolish". "So we're smart idiots?" asked a baby-faced boy with tall ears, a shaved head and sagging pants.
The right's endless campaign against the straw man of unions has chiseled in a national perception of teachers as, at best, well-meaning but foolish self-sacrificers and at worst, lazy idiots.
Huck Finn refers to himself as an idiot and still finds Jim more foolish than himself.
Calling someone "baka" in Tokyo amounts to saying "idiot"; the preferred word here is "ahou," which is closer to "foolish" and carries with it a generous understanding of human frailty.
Michael Mayer, who is directing "American Idiot," the Green Day musical set to open on Broadway next month, said, "It would be foolish of me and my designers not to embrace video and projection in a really giant way".
Play to the audience, not to the idiot; you won't change that person's mind but you can make them look as foolish as they're really behaving.
You can feel very foolish owning a stock when all you seem to hear is negative news and everyone implies you're an idiot for making the investment in the first place.
If you are actually foolish enough to listen to Tiger Woods and his enablers at IMG, then know one thing: They think you are an idiot and beneath their contempt.
