Sentence examples for foolish searching from inspiring English sources

In an adventure about buried treasure (real), pirates (made up) and clues (too complicated, it turned out), the temptation is to talk like a matey and tell the world: The cap'n says to quit yer foolish searching because the booty's not there now.

It's foolish to search for anything so definitive as the sound of a festival, but if the 2010 CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival — which begins on Tuesday and runs through Saturday — has one, it might be this.

I was a young, naïve, foolish writer who was searching for my way.

Politicians foolish enough to search for "Britishness", those ineffable qualities and values that define who we think we are, conjure up strings of imagined characteristics, virtually all of which have turned out to be wrong.

But it would also be foolish to ignore the inherent tension in searching for truth while also working for paying clients.

It's bizarre to see this company present this foolish ballet immediately after staging Alexei Ratmansky's substantial and musically searching "Shostakovich Trilogy".

"It would be foolish for us to search for another Nick, it is not possible.

She watched drunken tourists shout foolish things as they searched for cabs, and enjoyed knowing that, comparatively, she had her bearings.

In searching for new ways to dress up old verities, Rebecca Bayla Taichman, an emerging director of radical sensibility, has morphed Iphigeneia into a silly martyr for a foolish cause.

But the search for moral certainty can look foolish and intolerant in a prime minister whose chief "crusade" is to improve the public services.

Mr. Thompson, the board president, said that he agreed in principle but that the board would be foolish to limit its search to New York.