Sentence examples similar to helpless folly from inspiring English sources

But for most of Sunday prime-time's Super-G competition, viewers saw Miller in a different, more passive context -- as he waited at the bottom of the hill gazing at the scoreboard, helpless and anxious and dependent on the folly of others.

Both writers have inspired the Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman to make free adaptations: "La Captive," her sensual, mesmerizing 2000 film (based on Proust's "Prisonnière") and now "Almayer's Folly" ("La Folie Almayer"), a tropical study in helpless intransigence, from Conrad's often overlooked debut.

What folly.

Pure folly?

Folly within the folly.

Less helpless.

Feeling helpless.

Townspeople helpless.

It was folly.

Is it a folly?

— the folly of youth.