Sentence examples similar to foolish delight from inspiring English sources
But that was a funny movie, with a voice-over that dangled its foolish creatures for our delight, whereas "Queen of Earth" is slightly less amusing than smallpox.
At the same time, he heaped ridicule and contempt on millennialists, the believers in foolish tales of earthly delights, gluttony, and sexual promiscuity.
"Drug-taking," Hitchens writes, "is the purest form of self-indulgence," for it severs the link between hard work and reward, making "deferred gratification appear a waste of time and a foolish rejection of readily available delight".
The arch drug prohibitionist and Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens voiced the feelings of many of his readers when he described drug taking in 2012 as "the purest form of self-indulgence, that severs the link between hard work and reward… making deferred gratification appear a waste of time and a foolish rejection of readily available delight".
Pain has become nobler than pleasure; work, however foolish or futile, nobler than play; and denying ourselves even the most harmless delights marks the suitably somber outlook on life".
'People complain if we take them out.' It would be foolish to expect verse to appear in modern crackers - many Victorian delights have gone the way of the penny farthing: replaced by better modern inventions.
Foolish is as foolish does.
