Sentence examples for a folly with a from inspiring English sources

Ethan's father, Jeff Ravetch, an avid gardener, wanted it to be a folly with a modern touch.

It's rare to have a folly with wood paneling, though I'm told they have something similar in storage at Versailles".

When it opened in 1964, they wondered why Mr. Hartford had built such a folly, with columns like lollipops and almost no windows.

Almost 20 years earlier Joseph Conrad had kicked off his first novel, "Almayer's Folly," with a rude awakening from a daydream.

I say, as long as they are moving the Grandstand, why not concoct a modern functional folly with a funky clubhouse facade with Tudor beams, a concrete bowl for the spectators, a marquee over the news media and officials section, and maybe a sound barrier to cut the witless blare from the center's loudspeakers.

Dialogue often veers toward sadistic folly with a barbaric logic that takes the breath away.

To the theologians of Habsburg Spain, which harvested art treasures from Burgundian lands, Bosch scourged sin and folly with a corrective whip.

But despite mainly unfavourable notices, this supposed folly – with a story and book by Peter Stone – remained afloat for two years, picking up 5 Tony Awards including the one for Best Musical.

James Gale plays Christy's father, the survivor of his son's attack and the exposer of his folly, with a bloody handkerchief around his head, a perpetual expression of displeasure and the unrelentingly loud growl of a distressed bear.

Called The Stumpery, this one really does fulfil the definition of a folly as a building with no specific purpose.

If Darlington do die, in the greatest financial boom English football has ever known, it will be at a folly of a stadium, built with millions improperly spent while Feethams, a beloved sporting home, sits rotting back in town.