I said something else that was foolish in the elevator.
He didn't want to be foolish in his own eyes.
You would have thought that he had been foolish in a foreign city, as young men sometimes are.
"Nobody wants to be foolish in this kind of market," he said.
How on earth could she have been so foolish in the first place?
It would be foolish in the highest degree to send out anyone else.
"Then you know I am not foolish in my fear."
And boy, he really made a lot of the leftwing press look foolish in the process.
"I trust you will not attempt to do anything foolish in the next few minutes," he said.
He's the only one I'll let make me look foolish in public.