Sentence examples for real folly from inspiring English sources

The real folly that this illustrates is the notion that politicians can somehow dictate risk management for individual firms.

As Nick Clegg said in June, 'it would be real folly to simply go for easy wins on boosting supply of mortgages that doesn't lead to supply of new housing'.

Given all the sobering things that have happened since the turn of the millennium — from the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to the war in Iraq to the Bush administration's efforts to expand executive power and curtail civil liberties — the sex and real estate follies of the Clinton White House now feel as if they belong to an era long ago and far, far away.

On a lighter yet related note, the author and Emmy-Award-winning television host (and recovering Marthaholic) Lisa Quinn gets real on the follies of housekeeping in her new book Life's Too Short to Fold Fitted Sheets.

For Mr. Younger, the inevitability of financial folly — and real bankers' odd veneration of ostensibly evil characters like Gekko, an irony he highlighted in "Boiler Room" — has turned him sour.

Perhaps the new entrepreneurs will restore it but, for the time being at least, the real losers from the financial folly of the past decade are communities up and down the country which are now worse informed than a century ago, a depressing outcome in what is supposed to be the age of information overload.

Such omissions are understandable given the time constraints, but it renders the movie less powerful as a tool to point out the folly of the real world political encroachments preventing our economy from recovering from its recent debacle.

Hanging high on the gallery wall, absurd and forlorn, they are memorials to lost ideals and warnings of follies all too real.

Bureaucratically correct, the Abingdon town council has placed a sign beside a Gothic folly: "These are not real ruins".

If the only real obstacles domestically are acts of folly or provocations by the "shadow state", the real unknown is how neighbouring countries will react.

The wine merchant "had once written a prose poem that he had divided into many books", Powys tells us, only to be surprised when he discovers "the very persons and place that he had seen in fancy had a real existence in fact" - in Folly Down.