Sentence examples for by foolishness from inspiring English sources

If the right-back's first booking was cheap – he was punished in the 27th minute for preventing Matt Targett from taking a quick throw-in – then the second was also underpinned by foolishness.

Motivated in part by pound foolishness, but also by a disdain for information that might upset partisan or ideological agendas, the attempts have had mixed results.

Another problem with comparing Kapoor's structure with Eiffel's is that what makes the Parisian tower so pleasing to the eye is that its shape was dictated by the forces of the wind, not by the foolishness of man.

Charles Dickens would have appreciated the continuing dilemma: the best of times mixed in with the worst, a supposed age of wisdom shackled by scheduling foolishness.

"We hope people of good conscience will not be misled by this foolishness," he said, pointing toward the long line of gay and lesbian couples waiting to get married.

In an ideal world, the Supreme Court would not have had to send this message, and it could have avoided the substantial expansion of its own power to which it was driven by the foolishness of the Bush administration.

Iannucci's voice is soft and quite high, with a Scottish accent and elongated emphasis - "like you did at schooool" - as if perpetually amused by the foolishness he sees all around him.

The Koren prototype is a figure made endearing by a fearlessly honest embrace of emotion, poetry, earnest foolishness, and foolish earnestness.

We construct the history of our wisdom only by burying our foolishness in the endnotes.

Fortunately, though, there are writers who carry us through the news cycle by dispensing with foolishness and seeking perspective from sadness.

Italy regained the lead as a result of shear foolishness by Cerezo, who passed recklessly across the face of the area.