Sentence examples for commit a folly from inspiring English sources
He lacked any contact with the human smugglers who frequently cross the Straits of Florida, and had not the slightest idea that he was going to commit a folly.
It must have occurred to Bush and Blair – too late – that they had committed a folly in ousting a secular dictatorship in Iraq, in view of the sectarian fury that followed, Sunni-Shia strife, and the carnage that engulfed Iraq in the wake of the invasion.
Christmas is coming, and Republicans are jolly, But they'll soon realize they've committed a folly, Americans are smart, they know fiction from fact.
If induced by Folly (Ate, personified as a goddess of mischief) to commit an excess (hybris) with regard to his moira, a man will be punished without fail by the divine vengeance personified as Nemesis.
The council had "committed a great act of folly" in selling it, it said.
"Quite why you committed an act of utter folly is difficult to define.
The other half feels that Eden has committed an act of incredible folly.
Or will Mr Cameron end up, against his wishes, leading Britain out of the European Union an über-blunder in the making?In this section The voice of God Portrait of a hero as a young man Textual healing Squandering it Glittering haul ReprintsThat his government will commit some terrible folly, at a cost of a few hundred million pounds if it is lucky, is highly probable.
