Sentence examples for playing foolish from inspiring English sources

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But a lot of Python was stuck fast in the public-school-Oxbridge ethos, the comedy of the schoolroom, the naughtiness of playing foolish japes on figures of authority.

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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.

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.

Looking back, playing chicken was foolish, immature, and sometimes dangerous.

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

No compromise has been found in the months of a debate between the two sides, with the government looking especially foolish by playing piggy in the middle.

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.

These are great themes to develop - just as it is wonderful to inform people that playing the lottery is foolish.

That was her gift: she played tragic soubrettes, foolish but not silly young women aged 38 and 66 and 71, still willing to believe that romance will blossom even as they recount, broken-voiced, how romance has failed them in the past.

The fact that online distribution has to play in this foolish game of broadcast rights tennis, is of course, bullshit.

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