Sentence examples for foolish fancy from inspiring English sources

"And if it should happen that I am killed here — You will know it was not for foolish fancy — or as dad would say a pipe dream".

To be not merely beautiful but alive to the fact of beauty's slow fade, and to seem more beautiful because of such terrible knowledge: that is a gift most actors would prefer not to possess, but Lane has it, and she turns Toni's grab at love from a foolish fancy into a kind of tragic prayer.

Jane Fonda is still making apologies for her photo op with the Viet Cong in 1974, it seems that some foolish fancies are not quickly forgotten.

When the Nets became comfortable, they became foolish, overpassing and forcing fancy plays in the second half.

Fashion today is frivolous, fancy, funky, flaky, functional, foolish.

And yet his fancies were not entirely foolish.

Plainly, if God could make the world any way He fancied, it would be foolish to rely on the armchair ratiocinations of ancient Greeks to find out what that was.

HD TV sets were unique and fancy, future tech that only plutocrats and the inherently foolish could afford.

While tricks can give you bursts of speed, the game is less about fancy maneuvers than rough-and-tumble racing, as you hurtle down hills running down foolish hikers and punching any opponents who get near enough.

She is a courtesan – hence the fancy dress – who is working with a servant and the boy showing us his hidden cards to cheat a foolish young man.

MR. CHAMELEON -- After Greg Comella made that fancy, sensational, body-twisting, end-zone catch in the N.F.C. championship game last season, the Giants would have been foolish not to build on that, to find new ways to use this versatile fullback.