Sentence examples for foolish confidence from inspiring English sources
The tournament itself dashed me headlong into a sea of emotions I had barely skimmed the surface of until that point: blind hope, beaming pride, foolish confidence, and inevitably, heart-wrenching despair.
In this month's Woman's Home Companion he has an original poem entitled "God of Battles:" "From Pride and foolish confidence, From every weakened creed, From the dread fear of fearing, Protect us Lord and lead.
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
Neither Scalia nor Stevens pays any real attention to a plethora of first-rate historical work written over the past decade that challenges this kind of foolish self-confidence.
But when confidence collapsed, that optimism proved foolish.
Any collective confidence back in February 2008 was foolish and unwitting of the crisis that had already started in the higher rungs of finance.
– Ex-Tory leader Michael Howard says vote of no confidence in Theresa May would be "foolish".
Alongside this he must communicate a long-term confidence without lapsing into what sounds like foolish boosterism.
It would be a foolish man who tried to call Wednsday's game with any confidence.
It takes a special kind of person to try one in front of a full stadium, one with the willingness and the confidence to try to do something wonderful at the risk of doing something foolish.
