Sentence examples for A foolishness from inspiring English sources

That's a foolishness all its own.

It was a foolishness to think it had ever gone away.

The statue became the subject of attention in pulpits and in religious publications, the claims made for it fulminated against as a foolishness.

Recommending that the United States resume waterboarding and other torture techniques is not a sign of strength, it's a sign a foolishness.

In a time when art has to justify itself and when craft in prose is overlooked or seen as a foolishness – I like to stare at the undeniable power behind it all – the huge amoral force of story.

It was a time when a little foolishness was still all right.

It's the "No puppet!" maneuver, which he deployed during a debate with Hillary Clinton, simply insisting upon things with an obstinate foolishness and waiting for a kernel of normality in his opponent to emerge.

He remembers thinking that it was an "act of foolishness, a horrible mistake".

The Celtic tiger ultimately was a huge foolishness.

She added: "There may be a little foolishness in my Mother Superior, but I'm not going to steal the stage.

Janie wakes to see the sun rise: "He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red".