Sentence examples for foolhardy act from inspiring English sources

This foolhardy act begins a chain of self-destruction that leads to Julian's financial ruin and ultimately his suicide.

In those years, buying property in East Harlem seemed a brave — some might have said foolhardy — act, even for someone who knew the area well.

In a foolhardy act on April 3rd of what he called civil disobedience, Tristan Oldfield swam in front of Oxford and Cambridge crews racing on the Thames in the 158th Boat Race.

With the tie already won, Jones's unnecessary challenge ranks as one of the season's most foolhardy acts and his absence would seriously affect their prospects in Cardiff against Wycombe or Cheltenham, whose second leg is tomorrow.

It lends an aura of gravitas, for sure, but it takes a foolhardy pop act to casually co-opt such potent imagery.

The homemade rockets still being fired by Hamas are an act of foolhardy but determined defiance by desperate people with no hope and no future.

(We have met the enemy and they are... bloggers?) Certainly, the House Republicans who held their breath until the country turned blue acted like foolhardy children on what John McCain called "a fool's errand".

Among the bridal brouhaha, the bride's mother acts as the sole voice of dissent, pointing out that her daughter may be a bit foolhardy to give up on education to marry a footballer.

To say now that we should wait and not act first is foolhardy and naive.

People also tend to fall into two categories regarding self-control, she said — those who want to act immediately even if the action might be foolhardy and those who sit on the couch and procrastinate.

That is, if one is narcissistic or foolhardy enough, on top of it all, to want to "out" your damned act, ie publish it.