Sentence examples for mere folly from inspiring English sources

"Most friendship is feigning / most loving mere folly," read one, from "As You Like It".

By the turn of the century, Freud had recognized the sexual nature of children, but good citizens would have considered that kind of wisdom mere folly.

Emotionally, Linklater wants us to brush off their activity as the mere folly of youth, while also asking us to still coddle the boyhood of these young men.

To think that the rest of the world can go ahead and solve its environmental problems without the Americans is mere folly.

It's not a mere folly, as an article in the School Library Journal points out: Each room of the Minecraft library offers a clue inside treasure chests tucked into the virtual shelves.

Archaeologist Jack Carlson, writing in Foreign Policy magazine, argues that the wholesale copying of architectural culture may have its roots in something much bigger than shameless commercial borrowing: "The ancient parallels for these copycat projects ­suggest that they are not mere follies, but monumental assertions of China's global primacy".

"It is mere unmanly folly to do away with the sport because the risk exists".

It might all seem mere nouveau riche folly were it not for China's national goal of moving hundreds of millions of rural residents to big cities over the next decade, in the hope of creating a large middle class.

On an island in the mere is a folly tower, dating from about 1780, constructed in red brick.

He wasn't a polemicist, but his work was concerned with politics and history and the range of our folly, from mere foibles to gross inhumanity.

Just a week earlier, "Follies" opened at a mere $4.5 million, with reviewers who saw it at Paper Mill recalling how, visually and otherwise, the new Broadway version was nowhere near the 1998 staging here.