Sentence examples for folly of a from inspiring English sources

This folly of a launch proved an omen for how things would subsequently play out.

The soldiers, slaughtered in the Soviet Union's own late folly of a colonial war, were never buried.

"I tried to break her neck," he told me later, for "making folly of a man's game.

But to be fair to Clegg, this isn't the first, or worst, folly of a political campaign.

Abuja, the massive, unfinished folly of a capital that Nigeria began building in 1981, has failed to boost the country's under-inhabited interior.

THE European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was once criticised for its marble-clad folly of a London headquarters, the legacy of an earlier, glamour-happy president.

Quoting memoirs, Fussell writes: " 'There was no discussion of tactics,' nor of the folly of an unsupported frontal attack on an unstudied position.

After the initial stir, Ralph Nader's entry into the presidential campaign has been widely dismissed as the folly of an over-the-hill egomaniac.

North Korea's claim to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb has been widely denounced as both irresponsible and irrational – proof of the folly of an inexperienced but power-hunger leader eager to celebrate his 33rd birthday.

When it falls, liberals claim, people will realize the folly of an IRA-type system.

She would have made a splendid chancellor of the exchequer since early on she saw the folly of an economy built on selling endless credit to people who could never pay it back.