Sentence examples for a folly of from inspiring English sources

To do otherwise would be a folly of historic proportions.

"It might be a folly of our time," he said.

That is a folly of his own making – one that is unlikely to end well.

On the one hand, some Conservatives call the single currency a folly of European grandeur, doomed from birth.

Similarly, the task of disentangling the muddled political background to the war, a folly of mutual Anglo-Argentinian incomprehension, might better have been left to the standard histories.

They see it as a folly of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who appointed the commission and has long complained about the power of political bosses.

One of the symbols of Yeovil is "Jack the Treacle Eater", a folly consisting of a small archway topped by a turret with a statue on top.

I can't help but reflect on a starry-eyed folly of a close friend a few years back.

The dominance of austerity economics in Washington will be seen as a historical folly of the first order.

Together, the three have made a frequently hypnotic "folly" of a movie.

'Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within' at 15: A Potentially Prophetic Folly of a Video Game Movie.