Sentence examples for great folly from inspiring English sources

For the great folly that you are".

But the bigger task is to counter the absence in "Downton" of even a faintly modern recognition of the war's great folly.

Yet Alexander Pope's great folly, a network of caves and tunnels built below his home on the banks of the River Thames at Twickenham, is largely forgotten.

Extracting payment from online readers has been called everything from the next great folly of print journalism to its salvation, but to get a glimpse of how it really looks, head to Lancaster, Pa.

The war gave them their chance; in the United States the great folly of Prohibition was enacted, and in analogous mood most western countries passed laws against opiates, cocaine and marijuana too.

Their great folly of a house sagged and silted up around them, and the raising of Paretsky's two younger brothers (she has four in total) fell largely to her.

Most of the other great follies around the league were quarterback-based, with Houston adding a season-ending injury to Matt Leinart to its list of woes.

Great follies were committed, but big, brave things were done to put them right: think of the New Deal and the Civilian Conservation Corps.

It was, famously, unsurpassable; its bizarre and fractured follow-up, Tusk, has gone down in history as one of rock's great follies.

Journalism made me a close-up spectator to most of the great follies and crashes of our time: Wall Street in 1987, Japan in 1991, Silicon Valley in 2000 and pretty much everywhere on the planet in 2008.

The greatest folly would be to make Taiwan part of such a system.