Sentence examples for foolish old man from inspiring English sources
"Go home and write about your buttercups, you foolish old man".
I am a foolish old man who has been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpy in trousers — and a nincompoop!
Mr. Malandain has kept close to the original tale, but added still more humor and mischief, with Massine's foolish old man turned into a drag queen.
Here the King was a really fond and foolish old man, pathetic because absurd in his quite unfrightening parade of power.
Polonius, the foolish old man in "Hamlet," was given to fatuous declarations: To thine ownself be true, And it must follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Terence's bawds, slaves, and foolish old men were replaced by chaste Christian maids, honest men, and constant Christians.
All it needs is a willing young woman, a foolish older man, and a cheque-book.
"Pray do not mock me: / I am a very foolish, fond old man," Lear says in his moving reunion with Cordelia.
As in the best productions, we are never allowed to forget that the foolish fond old man we pity was once a tyrant.
Even near the end, with little left to live for beyond a misplaced prospect that Cordelia may still survive, the actor communicates a tetchiness to this "foolish, fond old man" that is routed far less easily than Lear banishes those who speak most bravely by choosing silence.
