Sentence examples for in the foolish from inspiring English sources

There are difficulties beyond embarrassing immaturity in the foolish game between Congress and the White House over the timing of President Obama's speech about jobs next week.

To many in the environmental movement, that report still stands as a beacon of sense in the foolish world of economics.

The N.F.L. and its "broadcast partners" entered the seventh week of the season evidently united in the foolish wish that this whole thing would go away.

I like to think that was not the only reason I was offered a place in his department, which I subsequently turned down in the foolish belief that putative politicians should study economics.

I faced a bitter and lonely struggle to prove to the experts that Nihal did have language locked away inside him, fully aware that they had pigeonholed me in the foolish and doting mother category.

Somehow his body, wiry and starved in "Hunger" (2008), and ripe with carnal energy in "Shame" (2011), does not deserve to be trussed, or trapped, in the foolish garb of Magneto.

Wherever you go, somebody has appropriated the thing, and it's off-model and totally delightful". Situation comedy is a kind of paean to self-destructive human foolishness in which the foolish humans never quite destroy themselves.

We're a lot like those old cartoons in which the foolish character is sawing off the same tree branch he's sitting on, while beneath him is a sheer drop to nowhere.

Rawdon Crawley A captain in the Dragoons, the foolish Rawdon likes to twirl his moustache in order to impress Becky Sharp in Thackeray's Vanity Fair.

Better to give! Give! Give! (then lay in wait for the debt to sear in the mind of the foolish receiver...).

And in part, that's the foolish ­dictate of melodrama.