Sentence examples for a program about the folly of from inspiring English sources

'FIRE AND FOLLY' In the Music Before 1800 series, the British soprano Sophie Daneman portrays betrayed women from operas by Handel and Vivaldi in a program about the folly of love and its dire consequences.

Maureen Dowd (column, Sept. 19) makes a critical point about the folly of missile defense.

This was one of several witty touches in a program whose theme was the folly of getting all riled up about naughty words when the world abounds in cruelty and violence — the theme, as it happens, of many "South Park" episodes, as well as of a 1999 spinoff movie.

(My painful Mercury debacle taught me a hard but important one, about the folly of following the crowd and chasing hot returns).

I've written plenty about the folly of passing a top-heavy, deficit-financed, $1.5 trillion tax cut during an expansion.

Seen, inflamed and agitated, beside a five-thousand-year-old monument, he can appear to be enacting a proverb about the follies of a choleric life.

Easterners gibe about the folly of growing thirsty almond trees in a dry climate.

Instead, we got the usual sermon about the folly of protectionism and the risks of a general trade war.

Ms. Germain, who formerly directed programs in Bangladesh for the Ford Foundation, said women's groups there and in India and Nepal were raising similar warnings about the folly of ignoring social attitudes.

After Hurricane Katrina leveled much of New Orleans, many authorities spoke about the folly of building at or below sea level.

No doubt, future Buttonwoods will be writing about the folly of such assumptions in years to come.