Sentence examples for blind folly from inspiring English sources
The ruined remains of stone farmhouses found across South Australia, just beyond Goyder's Line, stand as a crumbling testament to the blind folly of the 1870s push north.
It was either grace under pressure or blind folly, but I encountered it everywhere: the serene conviction that visitors would start coming again, and everything would be the way it was before.
Dowell's steady unfolding of this "saddest story", in a series of flashbacks, exposes not only his wife's infidelity with "the good soldier" but also his own blind folly in not recognising the truth about his empty and loveless marriage.
In these official follies there is an apparent mixture of deliberate ideological exclusion and blind bureaucratic stupidity.
Small is also lost: an errant soul, with nothing but a tent and a rucksack of notebooks and spare clothes, most of which he will soon lose through his own folly and blind trust.
Richard Alther is the author of three novels: The Scar Letters (Centaur Books/2013), The Decade of Blind Dates (Lethe Press/2008) and Siegfried Follies (Regent Press/2010).
