Sentence examples for some folly from inspiring English sources

We need jobs, housing, raises for public-sector workers, true development and not some folly that is the pet project of some multibillionaires with tunnel vision.

To dodge those perils, sausage grillers resort to a number of strategies -- some well- intentioned, some folly.

Sydney Smith tells us that men seldom eulogize the wisdom and virtues of their fathers, but to excuse some folly or wickedness of their own.

If, for example, you refuse to forgive your wife for some folly whereby she has offended you, you have no ground of hope in Scripture to believe that God will forgive you as long as you withhold it from your mate.

That cap will be cut each year after 2013: this should help to support carbon prices in the EU's Emissions-Trading Scheme.The concessions risk prolonging some follies.

Now Manaus is to get another pricey landmark for some, another folly.

A planned $102 million stadium expansion project was seen by some as folly.

Would Baron Cohen dare to adopt a fresh disguise and trap Sting in some outlandish folly, or is he now too close a friend?

Nobody tells a vacation story, or a holiday story, or an awards-show story, or a recollection of some industry folly better than Short does.

When the patient appeared to fare better, requiring less oxygen and joking and laughing more than I had ever seen in the past, I took his improvement to be yet another sign that my attempt to talk about holding back chemotherapy was surely some surgical folly.

He goes on to say how "whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first".