Sentence examples for desperate folly from inspiring English sources
Borrowing money to gamble is either an act of desperate folly, or a sign that you've got a serious problem.
There is a point beyond which perseverance can only be termed desperate folly.
In a subsequent television address, he described the blackout as "part of a low-level war", and a "folly by twisted and desperate minds".
In a live address on state television, the president also said the cuts were "part of a low-level war" against the country, a "folly by twisted and desperate minds".
The Telegraph's Christopher Howse said it was "no sitcom but a satirical drama, and it has hit us just at the right moment... it holds a mirror to the times and sports with human follies [and] makes Desperate Housewives look like the Dick Van Dyke Show".
There's Michael Dukakis's tank ride to folly, of course, with a link to the Democrats' desperate antidote ad.
Gove's speech to the National Farmers Unionn on Tuesday was therefore a desperate bid to rescue farmers from the consequences of his own folly, with masses of public money.
Desperate Band-Aids in the face of such climate instability are, at best, temporary; at worst, pure folly.
We might nurture some desperate dream that, as the benign post-ice age climate that has made civilisation possible is destroyed by our own folly and greed, our own creations will survive.
