Sentence examples for foolhardy things from inspiring English sources

Now 48, Mr. Smith has done a fair amount of brave — and perhaps foolhardy — things in his life.

Which, it must be noted, tends to egg people on to attempt rather foolhardy things, such as cliff drops to flat, and skidding across lakes while others point, cheer and laugh from passing chairlifts.

In automatic mode, the Range Rover could quickly divine whether its fool of a driver was attempting foolhardy things and take appropriate corrective action, shifting traction where it was most needed.

It was an incredibly risky – some would say foolhardy – thing to do.

It seems like a foolhardy thing to want to go to war, and yet we talk about it among ourselves.

"The most foolhardy thing the administrators could do is connect with some start-up company from the Middle East," Judge Beckloff said.

"We tried to excite the actors with the idea that it was a mad and foolhardy thing to do, and all our performers are predisposed to take those risks," Haydon adds.

I think it was a foolhardy thing to do when we were already engaged in Afghanistan". Asked what lessons MI5 had learned from the invasion of Iraq, Manningham-Buller said: "The danger of over-reliance on fragmentary intelligence in deciding whether or not to go to war.

It was an exposed and dangerous part of the line and to venture close to the Redan, under the fire of the Russian infantry and artillery, was a foolhardy thing to do.

It's somewhat of a brave (for which read foolhardy) thing to disagree with Tyler Cowen on a matter of economics and yet I'm afraid that it must be done here.

They took foolhardy risks, cut things up, made a mess, fell over.