Sentence examples for on a folly from inspiring English sources

But we can't just embark on a folly".

It just should not spend it on a folly like HS2.

This being a BCC (Before Credit Crunch) programme, Dean told us how he wanted to spend some of the squazillions he made in the City on restoring a folly that overlooks their home-town of Newport and wrapping a modern building, complete with the glass-walled corridor made mandatory under the Why? Why?

But to feature a man who has been charged with a crime that is eerily similar to the one he acts out on screen is too great a folly not to mention.

You create one, because one of the three largest population centers in the state would be devastated, and at the same time the state would have wasted millions it doesn't have on a pure folly".

Still, if history is not always written by the winners, it shapes itself to the slope of events: had the episode arrived at a different outcome, as it easily might have, the American rebellion could well have come to be seen as the French Revolution often is, if on a far smaller scale — a folly of Enlightenment utopianism unleashing senseless violence.

But Weinberg believes implementing copy controls on 3D printers would be a folly.

Down from the old Trump place there's a house with a huge spire on one corner, and a stone folly on the lawn.

And in the process, he brought on this human folly and tragedy that is still with us.

The clamburger had not appeared on roadside stands, Flo Ziegfeld was putting on the "Follies" and using theword "glorification".

If you are what you eat, what other possible outcome would you foresee for a generation raised on a diet of folly and artifice: Vietnam, Watergate, "Charlie's Angels" and Twinkies?