Sentence examples for considerable folly from inspiring English sources

News reports have warned us of antifreeze compound in toothpaste from China, but we can't hold the Chinese accountable for our own considerable folly.

His biography of Dreiser gave the reader an impression of a basic nobility in the subject, amid considerable muddle and folly.

Even so, a collector and dealer of considerable experience, Alfred Bader of Milwaukee, felt it would be folly to miss the opportunity of grabbing a rarity charged with history.

Despite this, "Snakepit" remains a considerable achievement, an insider's viscerally imagined dramatization of the monumental and horrific follies of that particular time and place.

In his essay "The Praise of Folly", published in 1509, the Dutch philosopher Erasmus writes about noble houses that would use banquets to demonstrate their considerable wealth.

What folly.

Pure folly?

Folly within the folly.

It was folly.

Is it a folly?

— the folly of youth.