Sentence examples similar to a foolish notion of from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

Am I clinging to a foolish notion?

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

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

Somewhere in the transom, however, the Insiders conjured up a foolish notion that would soon spread itself over the early primaries: Marco Rubio was the real emerging contender.

In clarifying our racial past, Williams suggests one way to illuminate our present: refusing to let foolish notions of difference obscure the lively entanglement that still links blacks and whites, and the vital mixed-up cultural life it continues to sustain.

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"?

I called for her with the foolish notion that she'd appear at the top of the stairs.

Nor am I impressed by the foolish notion that voting doesn't make any difference; if Labour had won in 2010, we wouldn't now have the bedroom tax, the dismantling of the NHS, a cut in the top rate of tax or the destruction of thousands of public sector jobs.