Sentence examples for extraordinary folly from inspiring English sources
In these circumstances, it would be an act of extraordinary folly for Cambridge to dismantle a department which regularly wins the top place among schools of architecture for its teaching in the annual assessment published in the Guardian and Times.
Re "A Drumbeat on Profit Takers" (March 20): What Dr. Arnold S. Relman and Dr. Marcia Angell have been preaching will not only one day be noncontroversial — it will be considered the extraordinary folly of our era that we ever thought that profit magically lined up with value.
Best sight: The Royal Pavilion Palace, Brighton's primary attraction, is an extraordinary folly – Indian palace on the outside and over-the-top chinoiserie within.
The idea that you could turn a 10-minute film on a Swedish arts programme into an Oscar-winning documentary, it's either folly or extraordinary bravery".
The splendour is added to by the extraordinary Ossian Hall – a Georgian folly overlooking the Black Linn waterfall over the river Braan, which uses mirrors and sliding panels to astonishing effect.
In "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," a history of such national follies as England's South Sea Bubble and Holland's Tulip Frenzy, the Scottish historian Charles Mackay observed: "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one".
One might therefore expect our laws and institutions to be no more comprehensible than any other catalog of human follies, an expectation which the extraordinary diversity of laws adopted by different societies would seem to confirm.
Yes, I could have made room for the extraordinary Encores! concert production of the great Stephen Sondheimusical Goldman musical "Follies," which featured a once-in-a-lifetime cast that included Donna Murphy and Victoria Clark at the top of their forms.
The master filmmaker's latest portrait of an institution, "At Berkeley," centers on the University of California in Berkeley and joins an extraordinary résumé that stretches back to "High School" in 1968 and his controversial debut, "Titicut Follies," in 1967.
But the human capacity for denying it (and, in particular, George and Elizabeth Chast's extraordinary appetite for denial), and the little indignities scattered along the way, are exactly the kind of folly that fuels her best comedy.
