Sentence examples for Sounds foolhardy from inspiring English sources

OPENING a restaurant in the dead of winter on Martha's Vineyard sounds foolhardy.

As a premise "Pan Am" sounds foolhardy, a knockoff that can't possibly live up to the original, like a network trying to copy "The Sopranos" with a series about a ring of car thieves in Indianapolis.

Mr Marcus has chosen a trio of stories for the first issue: one from Stephen Dixon, an established novelist, a second from Jason Schwartz, author of "A German Picturesque", and a third from an unpublished writer named Chanelle Benz.Launching a niche magazine at a time when print media is struggling sounds foolhardy but Ms Maduka is confident the American Reader can flourish.

Ellington in particular seemed like an unscalable mountain; whenever it tackled his self-possessed music with its busy style, it sounded foolhardy.

Infecting vulnerable patients with a tropical illness may sound foolhardy, but dengue fever is less likely to kill the average adult than the common cold – making it the safest choice of infection.

To the non-hedonist this might sound incredibly foolhardy, but for the 20-year-old who's spend the last dregs of their pay on some pills they can't afford to replace, there's a twisted logic to it.

Investing in an independent bookstore may not be as foolhardy as it sounds.

Mr. Bush never sounds surer of himself than when the subject is Sept. 11, even when his critics argue that he has squandered the country's moral authority, violated American and international law, and led the United States into the foolhardy distraction of Iraq.

Sounds like the same story in Iraq -- where the U.S. has spent colossal sums and sacrificed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and American lives in a vain and foolhardy attempt to shape Iraq's political ways.

One foolhardy voice interrupts.

Mr. Elton also tosses off jibes at boy bands and Britney Spears, but the book's insistent glorifying of old-school rock 'n' roll, as opposed to the "computer-recorded anodyne pop" that is the sanctioned sound of the future state, is either foolhardy or cynical.