Sentence examples for foolish pursuit from inspiring English sources

In an area of the show labeled "Serious Science or Foolish Pursuit," 17th-century Dutch genre paintings, including "The Alchemist," by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, present alchemists' quest as vain and profligate.

It was the 1980's in New York, and while everyone recognized smoking as a foolish pursuit, it was still a necessary accouterment for homeboy wannabes, up-and-coming hipsters, wispy models and the Wall Street grunts who prowled Manhattan's singles bars.

If you accept that leadership is getting things done through others, then to focus inward seems a foolish pursuit.

The reality of these foolish pursuits?

Others hint that I must have wasted decades by indulging in foolish pursuits.

He has dropped the claim that stock prices always reflect the best possible estimates of fundamental values, but he insists that markets don't act irrationally for very long, and that trying to beat them remains a foolish and dangerous pursuit.

Better to walk away from a big score and live to pull off another job than to take foolish risks in pursuit of a hefty reward.

Pigheaded pursuit of a foolish decision is not courageous.

The question was whether it was better (i) to concede that women might appear to be inferior to men in a variety of ways (to be, for example, more foolish or more focused on frivolous pursuits) but to dispute that nature made them such or (ii) to dispute that women were more foolish, morally weak, or physically incapable in fact.

But even if Spitzer ultimately zeroed in on a corporate impropriety he had previously looked into alleged bid-rigging and even Greenberg's 1970s-era charitablendeavors hisis obsessive pursuit of AIG's captain, in hindsight, looks foolish indeed.

I was taking it too far, acting foolish, exposing myself to all kinds of unnecessary risks in pursuit of hedonistic thrills.