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was and foolish
`` It was foolish of him to keep them, whatever they were.
How foolish it was to try to fathom the truth in an area where only faith would suffice.
We may say that his attitude was foolish, since he may have been a success had he learned some human relations skills ; ;
It came to him as he wept there aboard the Somers that it was as foolish to strive for greatness as to seek to storm the gates of heaven.
He was indicted under the Sedition Act for an essay he had written in the Vermont Journal accusing the administration of " ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation, and selfish avarice ".
This version says Babieca was raised in the royal stables of Seville and was a highly trained and loyal war horse, not a foolish stallion.
She believed that it was this inferior education that turned them into foolish people, but women " could easily be concentrated and solidified upon objects of great significance " if given the chance.
Japanese Prince Kinashi no Karu had sexual relationships with his full sister Princess Karu no Ōiratsume, although the action was regarded as foolish.
Related to this was the observation that it was foolish to deny to God the same honor that was freely given to the human emperor.
It is unclear that Jahangir even understood what a Sikh was, referring to Guru Arjun as a Hindu, who had " captured many of the simple-hearted of the Hindus, and even of the ignorant and foolish followers of Islam, by his ways and manners ... for three or four generations ( of spiritual successors ) they had kept this shop warm.
The moral of this story was that foolish people are seduced by false doctrines.
In a famous letter to Leopold von Gerlach, Bismarck wrote that it was foolish to play chess having first put 16 of the 64 squares out of bounds.
In 1616, the Roman Inquisition's consultants gave their assessment of the proposition that the Sun is immobile and at the center of the universe and that the Earth moves around it, judging both to be " foolish and absurd in philosophy " and that the first was " formally heretical " while the second was " at least erroneous in faith ".
The poet Algernon Charles Swinburne said, " More nauseous and foolish cant was never chattered than that which would deride the memory or depreciate the merits of Bowdler.
In 1960, Leigh recalled her ambivalence towards her first experience of critical acclaim and sudden fame, commenting, " some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress.
And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry.
But our thoughts can contain only one idea at a time, so if the plot is " hero runs after murderer " and our reflection is " he was foolish to trust the villain ", our thought is something like " hero foolish trust run after murderer villain ".
Her downfall was due to having so few like-minded people on European integration amongst her colleagues and that as she had adopted a line that would improve her party's popularity, it was foolish of them to force her out.

was and snobbish
Though the Reagans leased the new house at their expense, the move was viewed as snobbish.
While John's father was a shrewd businessman but a mild-mannered man, his mother was a rather snobbish woman who spoiled her son.
While his father tried to remind him that he was once poor too, John became as snobbish as his mother.
In the BBC TV series Keeping Up Appearances ( 1990-5 ) the snobbish Hyacinth Bucket was frequently outraged by the brevity of her sister Rose's skirts.
Furthermore, when the band's management told Fieger to avoid giving interviews, the band was perceived as being arrogant and snobbish, as well as being unable to address the negative criticism against them.
Gary Costello ( Gary Webster ) was a businessman who lost a lot money in a failed business deal, and was forced to move from a far more expensive neighbourhood in Chigwell, Essex to the comparatively modest Stanley Street, much to the shame and embarrassment of his snobbish, socialite wife Chrissy ( Kazia Pelka ).
Norman Eshley had a previous guest role in the series two years earlier playing a different character, and was also a member of the main cast of the spin-off series George and Mildred in which, he played The Ropers ' snobbish neighbour Jeffrey Fourmile.
His first role in a major film production was in A Yank At Eton ( 1942 ), where he played a snobbish bully opposite Mickey Rooney.
Their neighbour is the snobbish unmarried Charles Fulbright-Brown, and PC Corky Turnbull was the local policeman.
... in fact, Alf was quite menacing and James was just too snobbish and unbending a character to generate a response from the audience.
When it returned to NBC in 1949, Louise Erickson played Betty and Jim Backus was heard as snobbish playboy Hubert Updike III.
Now moving in literary circles, he was initially on friendly terms with the Bloomsbury Group but then became very hostile to them ; he declared that they were sexually promiscuous, snobbish, and anti-Christian.
Carter depicted Diane as an intellectual, old-fashioned, and snobbish, while he considered Rebecca the " lovable loser " business manager, who was unlucky in her career and relationships.
In the late 1980s, Delahunty — then the chief newsreader for the ABC in Victoria — was parodied by comedian Jean Kittson on the popular TV comedy series The Big Gig, where Kittson portrayed a snobbish, acid-tongued announcer called Veronica Glenhuntly ( whose surname was taken from that of the elite Melbourne suburb ).
This was mainly due to the influence of her snobbish and overbearing mother played by Mollie Sugden.
Despite his apparent rejection of eugenics, Pearl maintained relatively good relations with key eugenicists and was never shy of expressing extremely snobbish and class-oriented views.
One exception was Alexander Druzhinin, described as a man of " eclectic views, a snobbish anglomaniac and a follower of the ' art for art's sake ' doctrine " who was on friendly terms with the ' soil-bound ' Moskvityanin ( the latter praising him as ' an honest knight ' for this ).
Her best friend was Peter's sister, Grace Dobbs, also known as Honey ; her rival for Arthur's affections was Lorraine Lee ; she was friends with Arthur's sister, Lois Farringdon-Pett, and one of her archenemies in High School was the snobbish Kay Vincent.

was and wear
One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.
When Mrs. Coolidge was in mourning, she did not wear black.
The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.
Another was to soak raw beef in vinegar for twenty-four hours, tie it on the wart, and wear it for a week.
A simpler method was to tie a thread tightly around the wart at its base and wear it this way.
The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart `` for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were in a body for which it was built ''.
Therefore, pure antimony is not used to make hard objects: coins made of antimony were issued in China's Guizhou province in 1931, but because of their rapid wear, their minting was discontinued.
Rutherford, who was 70 years old when the first film was made, insisted that she wear her own clothes during the filming of the movie, as well as having her real-life husband, Stringer Davis appear alongside her as the character ' Mr Stringer '.
It has been maintained that the right to wear mitres was sometimes granted by the popes to abbots before the 11th century, but the documents on which this claim is based are not genuine ( J. Braun, Liturgische Gewandung, p. 453 ).
It was announced at the 2009 state of the franchise meeting that the Falcons would wear 1966 throwback uniforms for a couple games during the 2009 season.
Spanish midfielder Roger was the last player to wear the number.
However, the University of Washington was unwilling to let the fledgling league use Husky Stadium, probably due to the excessive wear and tear that would have caused to the facility's grass surface.
However, since the radio was slightly too big to fit in a shirt pocket, Morita made his employees wear shirts with slightly larger pockets to give the radio a " pocket sized " appearance.
Early guncotton was unstable however, and burned very fast and hot, leading to greatly increased barrel wear.
The first known mention of the word was in the third century AD in a book called Liber Medicinalis ( sometimes known as De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima ) by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, physician to the Roman emperor Caracalla, who prescribed that malaria sufferers wear an amulet containing the word written in the form of a triangle:
" Henceforth, he started to wear this tunic that he saw, and began to weave palm leaves, and never was bored again.
( Batting helmets at that time were not required to have an " ear flap "; indeed, it was not until 2002 that all major league batters were required to wear helmets with side protection.
The one-off test in 1999 between England and Australia that was played to commemorate Australia's first test against Reverend Matthew Mullineux's British side saw England wear an updated version of this jersey.
Other gender-free dance groups started up in the area after that, and in 1989, at the gender-free dance group in Jamaica Plain, MA, a group of dancers led by Janet Dillon protested the use of these terms, and the armband system was devised: the traditionally male-role dancers would wear armbands and be called " armbands " or just " bands ," and the traditionally female-role dancers would be called " bare arms " or just " bares.
The average town and country woman could acquire and wear a considerable amount of this mass-produced jewelry that was both affordable and stylish.
It was once taboo in Western society for women to wear clothing traditionally associated with men, except in certain circumstances such as for necessity ( as per St. Thomas Aquinas's guidelines in Summa Theologiae II ),
As a quaestor, an official was allowed to wear the toga praetexta, but was not escorted by lictors, nor did he possess imperium.

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