Sentence examples for folly out from inspiring English sources

It's institutionalized and entrenched like the Federal Reserve, acting as a collective corrective to finally — at long last — laugh folly out of existence.

And satire will never laugh folly out of existence, one, because it can't, and two, because, even if it could, it wouldn't, because that would mean committing suicide.

The mind, he affirms, directs the laughter of comedy, and civilization is founded in common sense, which equips one to hear the comic spirit when it laughs folly out of countenance and to participate in its fellowship.

What at first appears to be a one-story folly turns out to conceal 16 rooms spread out over three floors.

The Postman, Costner's three-hour post-apocalyptic folly, turned out to be a dead-letter movie.

At a time when we need wisdom and farsightedness to recognize the implications of Dr. Keeling's 50 meticulous years of work, we are instead offered folly, measured out in quarterly profit margins and two-year electoral cycles.

As easy as it is to dissect Ward's flaws -- like his complete lack of self-awareness while his every folly played out in public -- it is more constructive to understand why the U.S.O.C. board fell for him in the first place.

We've seen that folly play out for years.

Tory MPs are alarmed at the folly of HMRC sending out cuts letters just before Christmas.

In a household, it would be economic folly to lay out grand plans without having the money to pay for them.

Roger Federer currently heads the leaderboard with 17 - and although few expect the Swiss to add to that tally - it would be folly to rule out the greatest player of all time winning at least one more title.