Sentence examples for found it foolish from inspiring English sources

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Richard H. Brodhead, a former English professor and dean at Yale who was named Duke's president in 2004, recently said he found it "foolish" and "disheartening" when high school students listed the men's basketball team as the primary reason they applied to Duke.

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I realize that we might lack a certain perspective and people might find it foolish that we're talking so gravely about our circumstances when we're so young, but I don't feel particularly young.

NOT long ago, when stock prices were soaring and discount lease deals were easy to find, it seemed almost foolish to pay cash for a car -- and hardly anyone did.

Manson aimed the song as a rebuke towards a friend's foolish behaviour: "A lot of females still find it difficult to find their own voice in society.

His sad, heavy-lidded eyes suggest he knows that others might find him foolish.

Ironically, it was the very lesbian sex scenes – one about 10 minutes long – that Maroh found so foolish, which played a fundamental part in its radical appeal to critics and jury members.

In the case of "Making It," the reviewer, like most others, found the book foolish.

I was to find a foolish thing, pursue it and not be concerned with debt, the natural burden of the young, hopeful man.

"They fought what they found foolish or irrelevant, and consequently did not survive to do what they considered vital".

Cool B found the assignment foolish, and at the end of the class he stood in the doorway to block the Frenchman's exit.

The lyrics of the album were mostly about choices the American government were making at the time, which Mustaine found to be foolish.

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