Sentence examples for point of folly from inspiring English sources
It is rather that -- on far too many occasions -- the way in which they choose to discuss those key issues trivializes them to the point of folly.
But if crosswords can be addictive — if some people love them nearly to the point of folly — it may be because real life hardly enters into them.
With her indulgent upbringing, Emily is already independent to the point of folly, and her refusal to placate her husband quickens the tragedy.
His foreign policy views are hawkish to the point of folly, but he isn't competing for the Ron Paul/Jon Huntsman slice of the G.O.P. electorate, and this isn't a foreign policy election anyway.
My horse trainer wanted to be Peter Fuller - wanted to be a sportsman and a gambler of a classy kind, a romantic, manly and dogged, brave to the point of folly, a supporter of the arts and other good causes, with a certain theatrical flair, and with a social conscience.
That was the height of folly.
I pointed out (and I was by no means alone) that to take two entire squads with, as matters turned out, several extras was the height of folly.
These were the years of folly.
The original 1,200 pages have been condensed, and are all the punchier for it.The Great Leap Forward was the high point of ignorant Maoist folly.
There are echoes here of the herd instincts let loose by the program trading of 1987, or the dotcom mania of the recent equity bubble.Mr Persaud points to another source of folly: chasing cross-country correlations in equity markets.
