Sentence examples for foolish child from inspiring English sources

At other times, as when she wears her dead father's oversize coat and hat, she looks like a foolish child left to perilous play.

At times she brings to mind D. H. Lawrence's famed formulation that "the essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer". At other times, as when she wears her dead father's oversize coat and hat, she looks like a foolish child left to perilous play.

Anne, his mother, thought Wellington a slow, foolish child.

He is also shown as a foolish child in Led by the Nose and Bubble Blowing.

In addition to the novels for which she is best known, Matute wrote several collections of short stories, including Los niños tontos (1956; "The Foolish Children"), Algunos muchachos (1968; The Heliotrope Wall), and La puerta de la luna: cuentos completos (2010; "The Door of the Moon: Complete Stories").

And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house.

Moreover, the foolish flower child Obama/Kerry policies regarding Iran's development of nuclear weapons are creating the foundation for a much, much ruder awakening one morning than on 9/11.

Didn't they know that they too would eventually compromise, wrinkle, suffer large and small defeats, seem foolish to their children?

The plot revolves around the efforts of five foolish but imaginative children to steal a flatulent sea lion named Slappy from the local aquarium and return it to the ocean.

Making such an outrageous pledge to one's child is foolish enough in its own right; but when one lives in a city of eight million, it's downright nuts.

In the Essay, in which he first introduces the theory of the association of ideas, Locke warns against letting "a foolish maid" convince a child that "goblins and sprites" are associated with the darkness, for "darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other".