"I haven't traduced you," Garner said, feeling a foolish and clearly hopeless desire to defend himself.

The lake, much like the character's foolish desires, has turned into a lagoon of refuse with broken bottles lining its banks.

His foolish desire to investigate had brought himself and two others face to face with an overpowering force.

I longed to become as the grass again, then mocked myself for so foolish a desire.

It was a foolish desire on his part, he suspected.

Even knowing how foolish that desire was, he wanted it.

But he also knew that this was a foolish desire.

I had a foolish desire to burst into tears.

Wyngarth's foolish desire to tell his story was something unexpected.

I had no patience with what I saw as her foolish desires and she none with my orders.