Sentence examples for foolish like from inspiring English sources

Some of the changes sound merely foolish, like replacing the word "capitalism" with the words "free-enterprise system".

"As I get older, the one thing you never want to do is look foolish, like dying one's hair, which I think is probably the most obvious and egregious thing a man can do," he said.

As the two lean their heads to the side, they close their eyes, unafraid to seem foolish; like the show itself, they're on the side of pleasure, whatever form it takes.

So we urge President Obama not to do anything foolish like "test it out" by sending the agent back to August 4 , 1961 to forge his Hawaiian birth certificate.

Sosa is not a good fit for the Yankees, and Steinbrenner is going to see the light before he does anything foolish, like breaking his salary structure and team chemistry to import a slugger when the Yankees really need pitching.

As long as we don't do something foolish like encourage consumption by cutting taxes on gasoline, new supplies of oil, together with falling demand in response to high prices, will eventually eliminate that market power.

Before leaving, Roberta had said goodbye to her best friend, Roy Lee, who refused to kiss her and made her feel the wisdom of her mother's advice that it is foolish to like a boy more than he likes you.

What if they look foolish for liking it?

Rawdon Crawley A captain in the Dragoons, the foolish Rawdon likes to twirl his moustache in order to impress Becky Sharp in Thackeray's Vanity Fair.

Whether they do it out of unethical and unrestrained greed, or out of the foolish, Icarus-like belief that they've got the situation completely under control, the result is the same.

Not because such things are GOOD or BAD - but simply because such things do not work to end suffering and bring enlightenment for foolish beings like you, like me, like US - in this age of dharma decline.