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Example sentences for: foolishness

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Now, set aside the complete foolishness of distinguishing between "near-term buy" and "accumulate" (how, again, am I supposed to accumulate shares if I don't buy them? and does near-term buy mean that these stocks are a long-term sell? or perhaps just a long-term accumulate?).
The threesome of Harry, Ron Weasely, and Hermione Granger (who is likely to be everybody's favorite character) are believably mischievous, competitive, vain, and, for all their intelligence, prone to childish foolishness (e.g. the clever, studious Hermione's stubborn crush on the egotistical charlatan Professor Lockhart in Chamber of Secrets ).
In the Republic of Ireland, the Irish Independent called Clinton "an invaluable friend of Ireland" and said that foolishness in his personal life "does not justify the persecution to which he has been subjected," nor take away from his achievements as president.
And the best way to avoid such foolishness is to play around with a thought experiment or two.
In the liberal Guardian , foreign affairs columnist Martin Woollacott said Republican senators "sent out a dismal message--of American selfishness, American foolishness, and American readiness to put her own safety first, whatever the consequences for the rest of us."