Sentence examples for for the foolhardy from inspiring English sources

Filler called for the "foolhardy" project to be reversed.

When Porter returned and learned of the fiasco, he furiously demanded of Alfred Ellet, Willl you please inform me by what authority you sent the rams … past the batteries at Vicksburg, in open day, and without taking any precautions to guard their hulls?" Ellet took full responsibility for the foolhardy mission, and Farragut was apologetic to Porter.

7. True or false: When Giuliani blamed an underling named Jerome M. Hauer for the foolhardy idea of placing the city's emergency-management headquarters in the World Trade Center, he was confronted with a memo in which Hauer had argued against the site and in favor of a less visible target in Brooklyn.

It is, after all, the discipline of the sport that punishes the body more than any other, with constant twisting and pounding that makes aches, pains, injury and ibuprofen a way of life for the foolhardy souls who choose to make a career of it.

Gleaning truth from these halfhearted affairs is a task for the foolhardy.

This is a critical time when we need to recognize our selfish selves for the foolhardy jokers that we are.

Actually using a bike as a means of getting from A to B along normal roads is still a matter for the brave and the foolhardy, and cyclists on the roads are a rare sight indeed.

Every fisherman who goes out on the water, except for the most foolhardy, never loses respect for the fury of nature, and never stops wondering whether, when the shore slips out of view, he will ever see it again.

He laid down set hours for writing in which only the foolhardy would telephone or knock on his door.

TWO of the iron rules of American politics are that Republicans don't vote for higher taxes and only the foolhardy vote against Iowa.

There's no accounting for taste, as evidenced by the foolhardy reception certain cinematic gems initially garner.