Many of JB's critics dismiss her as a vain and foolish self-publicist who makes easy, crowd-pleasing attacks on soft targets.
Striking Terry, blatantly and with obvious intent, in the fourth quarter of a rout was a foolish, self-destructive act that probably cost the Knicks a sweep and Anthony a chance to win his first series for New York.
A former director of public prosecutions has launched a strident attack on the head of MI5 for using "foolish self-serving rhetoric" to resist legitimate calls for Britain's intelligence agencies to face more scrutiny in the face of revelations about their surveillance capabilities.
Andrew Parker, the new director general of MI5, should be slower to employ this foolish, self-serving rhetoric that naively raises a perfectly legitimate question: how should we ensure that those privileged to be granted special powers to intrude into everything that is private serve a real public interest, rather than the dangerously false god of securitisation for its own sake?
They were less dangerous because of the wet ground, where one of them hit it stuck, and so my foolish self-exposure was at least safe from the peril of ricochets... "I could soon notice something unusual was going on inside me.
There is no set pattern for what we do - because we are each individuals, and our Dharma masters encourage us not to put on airs, but simply become our foolish selves as we continue to entrust ourselves to Amida.
We need constraints to keep our sometimes foolish, self-destructive ambition in check.
He was the short-sighted brother who was easily blinded by foolish self-interest.
Media outlets of all shapes and forms are weighing in on his death -- and specifically, the foolish, self-destructive choices he made associated with his addiction.
The poison you take hoping the other person will die: one of the most seductive of foolish, self-victimizing bets that most of us seem to fall into from time to time.
