Sentence examples for foolish tendency from inspiring English sources

And finally, there is the foolish tendency to rely on the most dubious allies who ostensibly "support the Jewish cause".

New Zealand's government, in contrast, did much better because it invested public money in private funds.Mr Lerner points out that two foolish tendencies are particularly hard to resist when politicians are struggling with high unemployment.

The foolish tendencies of humanity have been portrayed since Paleolithic times by sacred tricksters whose job it is to mimic social convention and test accepted taboos.

Maybe you too have foolish tendencies that they have but not to the same degree and that is what you have in common.

To cut back on support for it is to cave to the worst penny-wise, pound-foolish tendencies of our domestic politics.

Berlin regarded such an attitude as not only morally ugly, but foolish: for good ends have a tendency to be corrupted and undermined by being pursued through unscrupulous means.

This is named after people's tendency to make risky or foolish gambling decisions if they feel they are on a "lucky streak" or if they feel their "luck is about to turn".

In another role that can invite exaggeration, Guillaume Graffin characterized Gamache, Kitri's rich but foolish suitor, as an aging fop with a tendency to stumble.

Isabel's father, Nigel Michael Cainee), an around-the-clock rogue whose success with women seems strangely at odds with his tendency to wear silk cravats, condemns this foolish scheme.

It is possible to be penny-wise, pound-foolish, and it's possible for grad-school poverty to reinforce this tendency.

The IENs particularly pointed out Canadian co-workers' consistent aversion to change (where the IEN was the change agent), a tendency that some IENs considered self-destructive: " I think they are a little bit foolish doing what they're doing.