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It's called Seward's folly.
There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
Some of these situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others, but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice, or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse for the horror of our own injustice."
Don't even let your children see it lest their tiny minds be warped by the even tinier minds of those who financed, fabricated and filmed this frightful folly.
One can see it as anti-war, because of the opening and closing scenes, and the folly of pretended grandeur, as how wonderful the cavalry men looked as they prepared for the great charge at Eylau, contrasted with its so horrible and disturbing conclusion, when we see the bloody uniforms, the boyish dead, etc--but chiefly, I see the film as about a moral man in an immoral society.
al. as well as a ripping of America as an out-of-control imperialistic force that will ultimately be destroyed by its own folly and thirst for power.
His selfishness is his folly and the two women who follow him represent the sides of a coin;with the same face on each side.
This grade-B TV fodder also illustrates the folly of remakes in general.
In order to maintain his saintly visage of Che Soderbergh conveniently leap frogs the mass executions he presided over after the revolution in Cuba and the folly of his Congo adventure ("This is the history of a failure" he writes in the preface of his Congo Journal) to concentrate fully on Che's attempt to rally support to rise up against the government in Bolivia.
I guess in hindsight it's pretty easy to see the folly of these roles, but I still wonder WHO thought that Salvation Army guys are "HOT" and who could look at these dashing men and see them as realistic representations of the parts they played.
Through all this, Konchalovksy zeroes in on the individual, with care and affection to examine the bitter longing and regret of the woman who waited 6 years after the war for a fiancé who never came back, waited long enough to go out and become a barmaid in a ship with velvet couches and which she quit years later to come back to her village to care for an aging uncle who killed the fiancé's father with an axe, the irreverent folly of the fiancé who came back from the war a hero 20 years too late, came back not for the sake of the girl he left behind but to drill oil for the motherland, the despair and resignation of the middle-aged Regional Party Leader who comes back to his small Siberian village with the sole purpose of blotting it out of the map to build a power plant.
We adults know, wink-wink, the folly of the tiger and bear, but we love such stories and we crave expectation-building stories like an addiction, she seems to say...and thereby in childhood learning sets the stage for evaluating the ensuing adult ventures toward their own mirage-like horizons.
The above comment from none other than "America's Anchorman" himself pretty much points out the folly of Deal of the Century.
It's a film of big ideas, in particular about the folly of America's obsession with guns; presumably it's this liberal agenda that enticed an astonishing cast, each member of which is as bad here as they've ever been before (Jeff Daniels plays an arrogant businessman who gets away with murder; Joan Allen is the wife who leaves him to work for loopy billionaire Gary Sinise; they and four or five others get intertwined in a web of violence).
Of course there's a morale to the story, the folly of men, but how many movies and tales do we have to hear about our own bane.
Cue the jabs in the ribs that forced me to endure the remainder of this anaemic folly.
This was a graphic look at the horror and waste of man's ultimate folly.
To see the folly of these endeavors, let me dissect a number of anti-poppy schemes undertaken in Afghanistan with which I was connected.
But the negative reaction to Hollande’s proposal shows the folly of Lawson’s argument that the eurozone is a unified bloc.
The fact that the country has again become fashionable reflects the confusion in eurozone policymakers’ economic thinking and the folly of imitation across think tanks and international institutions.
In that process, underestimating Libyan diplomacy, shrewdness and negotiating skills is the folly of the ignorant.
It would be sheer folly to suggest that Ukrainians start with a blank slate.
Of course, it would not take long for the folly in the nationalistic approach to become apparent.
The folly of this is readily apparent, because it doesn’t require much imagination to see what the Middle East would look like if an Iranian nuclear umbrella were shielding the radicals.
When I asked people, during my visits to Buenos Aires, why Argentina persisted in this economic folly, a single answer came back: "Yes, when Brazil went off its peg, its inflation remained moderate; but Brazil is Brazil, and we are Argentina."
Clearly, populist folly can eviscerate reason and common sense.
This goes to the heart of the folly of China bashing.
But, absent that monumental folly, long-term interest rates are unlikely to rise significantly as long as the Fed keeps short-term interest rates low – which it recently committed to do until unemployment falls to 6.5%.
By so doing, Bush's team left America's friends in Latin America - no less than in Europe and elsewhere - in a hapless situation: rightly unable and unwilling to support the US march of folly, and understandably reluctant to poison hemispheric relations in general with the type of strident criticism that local public opinion demands.
All of India was shamed by this callous and inhuman folly.
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