Sentence examples for is no folly from inspiring English sources

Speaking of white whales, Melville's line "There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men," comes to mind.

Every schoolchild knows that "Seward's Folly" turned out to be no folly, producing endless vistas and boundless wealth.

I couldn't get used to the heat, so I would arrive [at meetings] sweating and covered in dust". But this was no folly.

Alabama still should win the SEC West (all it has to do is beat archrival Auburn, which is horrendous this season), but it's no longer folly to think the Tide could lose to Georgia (which should win the SEC East, as all it has to do is beat Auburn) in the SEC championship game.

It is possible that the folly - the great, heartbreaking folly - was no more than a folly all the time.

Burke seemed to like dressing up in medieval regalia, and the ceremonial sinecure should have been no more than a Gothic folly.

In an era of content-driven longform landing pages, that's no longer wisdom; it's folly.

The MRJ is not even as advanced as Bombardier's CS100 or Embraer's E2. The MRJ doesn't use any Boeing technology, let alone any "key Boeing technology"… so there is NO BOEING FOLLY! The MRJ will not enter commercial service until sometime in 2017 (and that is if flight testing goes well. Considering that this is MHI's first RJ aircraft there are industry doubts that it will EIS per schedule).

Unlike France 98 when Glenn Hoddle's boys came unstuck in St Etienne, there is no Beckham-esque folly to lament this morning, nor a consolation wonder-goal to provide solace on the shop-floor or in the boardroom.

Home to ear-bursting rock festivals and museums of Victorian oddities, the Isle of Wight is no stranger to folly or extremes, so it is fitting that, for the 10th year in a row, the diamond-shaped island has been host to the White Air extreme sports festival.

But, as the exhibition stresses, such layered shells were no aesthetic folly or indulgent fetish for the archaic.