Sentence examples for outright folly from inspiring English sources

Every year he pushes his luck a bit further, culminating in the outright folly that is this year's show, Monsieur Butterfly, during which he will be (drum roll) building a Rube Goldberg machine live on stage.

The World Cup winners' ability to pass the ball at ease in defence means it would be outright folly to persist with the 4-2-4-0 4-2-4-0 4-2-4-0 4-2-4-0ally ustrategyevein in an attempt to combat the Czech Republic.

In a tour de force that at the time could be regarded as a rich man's self-indulgence if not an outright folly, he spent seven months coaching privately with Charles Zachary Bornstein, a recent graduate of the Juilliard School, whom he called "the most extraordinary teacher I've had of anything".

From time-to-time at the Environmental Working Group, we'll be looking at the follies, excesses and outright distortions spouted by agribusiness and its PR and lobby arms.

Why isn't the kind of life that we have enough to satisfy you?" There were others who dismissed it outright, assuring me that it was all folly.

More to the point, the idea of being the Reform Party nominee has been rejected outright by Senator McCain, who cites the Bull Moose folly of his hero, Theodore Roosevelt, and says he would welcome all sorts of endorsements, Reformers included, once he wins the G.O.P. nomination.

In the 1938 film "The Goldwyn Follies," Balanchine made use of Ms. Zorina's outright sex appeal as well as her arabesques when he cast her as a nymph in a wet, clinging tunic, rising out of a pool.

When I wrote Gardens of Awe and Folly this is the kind of value-added storytelling that I did my best to emulate, because outright plagiarism is wrong.