Sentence examples for foolish figure from inspiring English sources

The uncle, arriving too late with the money, cuts a painfully foolish figure beside the corpse: "Here's the money, Willi!

Geeky and awkward, these foolish figures hunch their backs deeply while taking stiff, shuddering steps across the stage.

As we can see only too clearly, his genetic destiny is to follow not his mother but his father, a foolish, damaged figure who is out of his depth in an increasingly violent world.

But a lot of Python was stuck fast in the public-school-Oxbridge ethos, the comedy of the schoolroom, the naughtiness of playing foolish japes on figures of authority.

As Monty, Mr. Griffiths created a comic figure both drolly foolish and heartbreaking.

They don't make foolish mistakes, because they have figured out that there is a definite formula for success, and they have broken the code.

"Even on stage, older women are so often portrayed as foolish, silly … not as powerful figures.

The intaglio Coetzee who emerges from the women's accounts is an unprepossessing figure, cold, awkward, remote, stubborn, foolish.

Because she didn't have the intellectual capacity to fulfil the role of this Lady Bountiful figure, she became a very foolish woman.

It would be foolish to think that Fox didn't figure out a way to parlay that 18 million rise in viewership over the debates of last year.

Second, if you are foolish enough to do so, make sure the figures add up.