Sentence examples for big folly from inspiring English sources

"But in terms of their planning, Jersey has turned into one big folly.

Today, the Communist Party is hoping the dam does not become China's biggest folly.

If Pakistan's military really is behind Mr Qadri, it has learnt nothing from its own sorry history of political interventions and may be about to commit its biggest folly yet.

George Lucas's biggest folly until Star Wars Episodes 1-3.

And here's the biggest folly of all: Despite China's prominent role in North Korea's dangerous proliferation, a naïve White House still clings to the unrealizable hope that somehow Beijing will rein its Wild Child.

But the bigger task is to counter the absence in "Downton" of even a faintly modern recognition of the war's great folly.

Great follies were committed, but big, brave things were done to put them right: think of the New Deal and the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Other than the infamous elbow incident, his biggest recent folly is the decision to change his name from Ron Artest to Metta World Peace.

That death's-head billionaire, by luring studios to fresh big-budget follies, could hurt the movie business for years.

Charlie Stillitano's visionary thoughts to end Big Cup's "folly of meritocracy" gets the treatment in David Squires' latest cartoon.

A curious mixture of self-help guide and hard-boiled business studies textbook, "Finish Big" explores the folly of failing to prepare for an eventual sale.