- However, an
opposing faction, led by Roosevelt,
ridiculed arbitration as
foolhardy idealism, and
insisted on the
realism of war as the only
solution to serious...
-
preemptive strike against Russia, but
Bismarck knew that such
ideas were
foolhardy. He once
wrote that "the most
brilliant victories would not
avail against...
-
France in
September 1939, the
German officer corps thought that it was
foolhardy and
discussed a coup d'état, only
backing down when
doubtful of the loyalty...
-
involved pitched small-boat
actions between the main fleets, and
several foolhardy attacks by
unsupported destroyers on
capital ships.
Jutland also concluded...
- speed, it is said to be
flown outside the envelope,
something considered foolhardy since it has been
taken beyond the
design limits which have been established...
-
complete the
overhaul that
Qurbani bravely, handsomely, but a
little foolhardily attempts." Bénédicte Prot, "Burhan
Qurbani readies Berlin Alexanderplatz...
-
remarked that
Guevara took too many risks, even
having a "tendency
toward foolhardiness". Guevara's
teenage lieutenant, Joel Iglesias,
recounts such actions...
- religions, the tale may have a bad end, with
eternal ****ation for the
foolhardy venturer. Conversely, it may have a
comic twist, in
which a wily peasant...
- was
absent in the east,
Tahmasp tried to ****ert
himself by
launching a
foolhardy campaign to
recapture Yerevan. He
ended up
losing all of Nader's recent...
- profligate.
Further examples include courage between cowardice and
foolhardiness and
confidence between self-deprecation and conceit. In Aristotle's...
