Modifying Another Word

• utterly: If he had not been so utterly foolish, nothing could have prevented your going to the hospital.

• politically: The military response is not just politically foolish but profoundly wicked.

• rather: Feeling rather foolish at the selfish nature of my grief I stood to inspect the panel.

Infinitive complement

• pretend: It would be foolish to pretend there are any easy answers.

• ignore: Regardless of the legal position students would be foolish to ignore the guidelines regarding breaks from the computer.

• assume: It would be foolish to assume that 2005 could simply be repeated in 2006 and that it would be a similar success.

• deny: It would be foolish to deny that there might be a marginal increase in influence in some specialized areas.

• imagine: And any nation or individual is foolish to imagine that God will never intervene to judge.

• argue: But if the leader was foolish enough to argue with Moon, he would not remain a leader very long.

Modifies a noun

• virgin: Or foolish virgins unprepared for the Master's return?

• notion: The foolish notion is that Respect can be all things to all people.

• nonsense: Apple is one of, if not the, most Anonymous | Fri 9 June, 2006 11:11pm Article is foolish nonsense.

• pride: Alan Oakley's foolish pride had caused him to overlook the fact that without it, the body cannot live indefinitely!

• mistake: You could argue that releasing the data was a foolish mistake.

• consistency: But it also quotes Emerson, reminding us that " a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds " .

Used with adjective complement

• seem: It seems exceptionally foolish for people to go where they have no need to go.

• appear: He felt he had been made to appear foolish by what he considered to be Helen's deception.

• feel: Feeling rather foolish at the selfish nature of my grief I stood to inspect the panel.

• look: I didn't want to look foolish by going home with the wrong Welshman.

Preposition: in

• extreme: Wine & Dine has said since February that the hype of 2005 Bordeaux was foolish in the extreme.