He told Sky News: "Mr Cameron, quite deliberately to satisfy his backbenchers, and also to create a trap for Labour, played politics with his own promise… That is, in my view, extremely foolish and extremely damaging to his reputation and to the reputation of Westminster.
In the last three months, he has pushed a spare budget down the throat of the Democratic-controlled Assembly, and, for good measure, forced it to swallow a property-tax cap that many legislators privately viewed as foolish.
In the group, art and media were viewed as foolish wastes of time – after all, what is the point of reading books, watching TV or listening to secular music when the world is about to end?
That women who convert to Islam are viewed as foolish is no clearer than in Norway, where also in April the sketch comedy show "Ann-Kat Hærland" dared Justin Bieber fans to "convert to Islam" on camera and don black headscarves "to find out how far Norwegian Beliebers are willing to go for tickets".
"By any view, he was foolish to do what he did," said Robert Smith QC, appearing for the director of public prosecutions.
Too optimistic a world view results in foolish risk-taking, but moderate optimism gives you a strong selective advantage.
A large woman whose charm bracelet jiggles along with the wattles under her chin, Martindale bustles into view with wonderful, foolish brio.
Insults, personal attacks, and repeated declarations that the opponent's point of view is uncivil, foolish, and dangerous are to be expected.
Mr. Netanyahu views that as foolish to the extreme.
More useful, too, than dismissing him for his foolish views would be to learn from his example of magnificent but, in crucial respects, misaligned idealism.
