Sentence examples for foolhardy to take from inspiring English sources

In that home, dominated by the mother's anger andresentment, it would have been difficult or foolhardy to take sides.

People spoke of not allowing terrorists to run their lives, but then suggested it would be foolhardy to take unnecessary risks.

Some might say it's foolhardy to take your child into sharky waters, but I calculate that it's OK if you take local advice, treat the animals with respect, and stay cool and calm in the water.

But given this history, Mr Cameron was foolhardy to have taken him to Number 10.

It does not emerge too badly from my, perhaps foolhardy, attempt to take a family holiday in Egypt in August 2013.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE A Norwegian director and an Australian cast were foolhardy enough to take on what may be the great American play of the 20th century.

Later, as a volunteer in General Philip Schuyler's forces, he conducted a foolhardy attempt to take Montreal (September 1775), in the course of which he was captured by the British and held prisoner until May 6 , 1778

By Jon Michaud February 11 , 2010Mark Singer wrote in to suggest that we follow up yesterday's "Other Snows" post with Roger Angell's 1978 Comment about the seemingly foolhardy desision to take a bus to work during a blizzard.

Mark Singer wrote in to suggest that we follow up yesterday's "Other Snows" post with Roger Angell's 1978 Comment about the seemingly foolhardy desision to take a bus to work during a blizzard.

That's an incredibly foolhardy position to take when you consider that cyber-attacks, according to the NAS report, "are easy to use with high degrees of anonymity and with plausible deniability, making them well suited for covert operations and for instigating conflict between other parties".

Somewhere in the middle of this sequence I realised that this may be the only American movie since 2001 brave or foolhardy enough to take on – to conflate, even – the infinite and the intimate, the cosmic and the cellular, the extraordinary and the infra-ordinary, all in Malick's habitual spirit of big-hearted, symphonic grandeur, steeped in Whitman, Emerson and Yeats.