L. Paul Bremer underestimated the task, but did his best to make a foolish policy work.
"We would be somewhat foolish to work on something on stopping us from going over the cliff, and a month or six weeks later, the Republicans pull the same thing they did before and say, 'We're not going to do anything unless this happens or we don't increase the debt ceiling,' " Mr. Reid said.
Governments throughout New York State, which is scraping the bottom of the revenue barrel, would be foolish not to work harder at it.
The film's working title was "Greedy Wives", a joke on von Stroheim's previous film Foolish Wives; this working title was never considered as the film's actual title.
After studying theatre at university, she undertook a 'host of varied and foolish jobs', including working in a bookshop and selling insurance.
And Callil's verdict on Roth is tame compared with those of one early judge, Rebecca West, who dismissed Ann Quin's Passages as "unbearable", Brigid Brophy's In Transit as "twaddle" and John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman as "a foolish enterprise... worked out with very little talent".
There's no reason to be foolish about anything, just work my way in".
I am sure this is unintended, and it would be foolish to regard his work as a denunciation of consumerism.
"I had been told as an undergraduate at M.I.T. that good scientists did not work on foolish ideas like continental drift," recalled Lynn Sykes, an emeritus professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia.
Pain has become nobler than pleasure; work, however foolish or futile, nobler than play; and denying ourselves even the most harmless delights marks the suitably somber outlook on life".
