Sentence examples for absolute folly from inspiring English sources

It is absolute folly!

"We would regard that as absolute folly in terms of athletic competition," he said.

Charlene Barshefsky, Mr. Clinton's trade representative, called any such move "absolute folly".

"It would be absolute folly to turn around and say it will all be fine by Christmas," he said.

But basic principles – that migration benefits Britain socially, culturally and economically and that to cut ourselves off from the world's largest single market would be an act of absolute folly – must be defended vigorously.

It was taken down in the late 19th century, when a predecessor of Ms Richardson's noticed that the column was not just a folly but absolute madness, tilting disastrously and in danger of total collapse inevitably bringing much of the museum with it.

That to me is an absolute disgusting folly.

George Eliot, after noting "a vague spiritualism and grandiloquence which belong to all but the very best American writers," continued: Some of the best things [Miss Fuller] says are on the folly of absolute definitions of woman's nature and absolute demarcations of woman's mission.

First of all, you would have to be an absolute idiot to repeat the folly of the housing bubble, even if you don't lose your house in the crisis.

He has since learned the folly of speaking in absolutes.

Pure folly?