Sentence examples for play a foolish from inspiring English sources

Tells of woman who suggest that her guests play a foolish game in which the people have to act out the parts, and the audience guesses who the character is suppose to be.

The New Yorker, November 5, 1932 P. 81 Tells of woman who suggest that her guests play a foolish game in which the people have to act out the parts, and the audience guesses who the character is suppose to be.

Performing clowns, from Mr. Bean to a hospital clown playing a foolish doctor to cheer up a sick kid, get the audience to laugh with them at society's restrictions.

And it takes a very talented actress to play a gung-ho camp director who isn't foolish or comically annoying.

Iran played a reckless and foolish game in the Strait of Hormuz this week that — except for American restraint — could have spun lethally out of control.

Mr. Daily, playing a man so foolish that his sexist theories seem harmless, does well at both verbal and physical comedy.

It's only the benefit of hindsight that enables Stevens to see Darlington was playing a dangerous and foolish game, and that his high ideals proved to be just as toxic as immorality.

Ironically, it was the very lesbian sex scenes – one about 10 minutes long – that Maroh found so foolish, which played a fundamental part in its radical appeal to critics and jury members.

Jones accepts he would be "foolish" to deny finances have not played a part in the departures.

'Here he plays a man who's blind to the world and outrageous and foolish and charming by turn.

Amendt does not figure out a way to play Claudio's foolish anger to make us empathize with him.