2021 There are good VCs being venturesome with their capital. 2022 But now consumers are more venturesome and subscriptions are less necessary. Washington Post, Transitioning from live performances to virtual presentations neither intimidated nor inhibited the co-artistic directors of San Diego’s venturesome Project, Leslie Ann Leytham and Brendan Nguyen. 2022 In addition to chronicling episodes from this brave, venturesome life, Drury depicts modern-day nurses, mothers and other caregivers, sometimes imagining them as time-traveling avatars of Seacole herself - hence the plural of the title. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec.
2023 Maybe low-budget films, documentaries, and foreign language fare didn’t always take up the slack, but the best of them at least tried to be more venturesome than the usual ossified studio product. Vulture, 27 June 2023 Also coming to GroundUp is venturesome singer-songwriter Madison Cunningham, a Grammy nominee who is the subject of a recent profile worth checking out at.
įools rush in where angels fear to tread is a (shortened) line of Pope's "Essay on Criticism" (1711) popularized in Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1793).Recent Examples on the Web Part of a string of recent high-profile divorce records, Chemistry represents Clarkson at her most venturesome and liberated. Whether the fool-killer be an individual or an instrument cannot always be gathered from the dark phraseology in which he or it is alluded to but the weight of authority would sanction the impersonal interpretation. Fool killer, a great American myth imagined by editors, who feign that his or its services are greatly needed, and frequently alluded to as being "around" or "in town" when some special act of folly calls for castigation. Fool-killer "imaginary personage invested with authority to put to death anybody notoriously guilty of great folly" is from 1851, American English. Fool's ballocks is described in OED as "an old name" for the green-winged orchid. Foolosopher, a useful insult, is in a 1549 translation of Erasmus. Fool's paradise "illusory state of happiness based on ignorance or erroneous judgment" is from mid-15c. Feast of Fools (early 14c., from Medieval Latin festum stultorum) was the burlesque festival celebrated in some churches on New Year's Day in medieval times. To make a fool of (someone) "cause to appear ridiculous" is from 1620s ( make fool "to deceive, make (someone) appear a fool" is from early 15c.). The French word probably also got into English via its borrowing in the Scandinavian languages of the vikings (Old Norse fol, Old Danish fool, fol).
FOOLHARDY VENTURE DEFINITION PROFESSIONAL
1300, though it is not always possible to tell whether the reference is to a professional entertainer counterfeiting mental weakness or an amusing lunatic, and the notion of the fool sage whose sayings are ironically wise is also in English from c. Meaning "jester, court clown" in English is attested c.
Īlso used in Middle English for "sinner, rascal, impious person" (late 13c.). a much stronger sense than it had at an earlier period it has now an implication of insulting contempt which does not in the same degree belong to any of its synonyms, or to the derivative foolish. One makes the "idiot" sense original, the other the "jester" sense. The sense evolution probably is from Vulgar Latin use of follis in a sense of "windbag, empty-headed person." Compare also Sanskrit vatula- "insane," literally "windy, inflated with wind." But some sources suggest evolution from Latin folles "puffed cheeks" (of a buffoon), a secondary sense from plural of follis. Early 13c., "silly, stupid, or ignorant person," from Old French fol "madman, insane person idiot rogue jester," also "blacksmith's bellows," also an adjective meaning "mad, insane" (12c., Modern French fou), from Medieval Latin follus (adj.) "foolish," from Latin follis "bellows, leather bag," from PIE root *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell."
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