Sentence examples for a foolish notion from inspiring English sources

I had thought that we might hear tributes from Gandolfini's "Sopanos" co-stars — a foolish notion.

But that seems to me a foolish notion, especially if you want to depoliticize the process.

If any emotion was dominant in our talks, it was that flirting with disaster is such a foolish notion that no Chinese official seemed able to wrap his head around the idea that a country could be this stupid.

My friend Doug Hughes, who directs both Shakespearean and contemporary plays, put it best when I asked him whether setting one of Shakespeare's tragedies in an American high school was a foolish notion.

Am I clinging to a foolish notion?

That's a foolish notion held by people who have no imagination.

And with it, any foolish notion that I would ever be able to stomach another music festival.

But just because the FXI is an exchange traded fund, don't get any foolish notions here about diversification.

/ To see oursels as ithers see us! / It wad frae mony a blunder free us, / An' foolish notion.... Robert Burns, "To a Louse," 1786.

It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion!

Is it possible to imagine Don DeLillo today writing his novel Mao II - a novel that proposed the foolish notion that the terrorist now does what the novelist used to do, that is, "alter the inner life of the culture"?