Sentence examples for foolish children from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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?

And if foolish enough to have children, the required income rises substantially.

To think that this does not affect our children is foolish".

Linda could seem like a sap for defending the contradictory and foolish Willy at their children's expense.