foolishness

She had gambled on the family’s foolishness and self-delusion, and she had won by a length, as they say at the Derby.

The Epstein distraction bids to be another piece of foolishness that does more to inhibit Democrats’ return to real influence than advance it.

Mr. Clooney has never had a better role, and he burrows deeply into it with a self-interrogating combination of narcissism, foolishness, bravado and charisma.

Observers have long shrugged off the danger with the complacent idea that students will see through their professors’ foolishness—if not right away, then when they enter the “real world.”

On the one hand, decades of failure, foolishness and shortsighted elite greed have eroded the trust between Americans and the political and administrative mandarins.