Sentence examples for sort of folly from inspiring English sources

"When we go out socially we have to say, 'Do not mention the arm.' " "It's getting that quick rhythm, but exaggerated," says Clark. "It is a sort of folly," Lucas adds.

While groping desperately for an answer, this nation's newspapers have resorted to all sorts of folly to tighten their belts around their nineteenth-century waists.

And, therefore, the single-minded obsession with gun control and mass shootings is in itself a sort of fetishistic folly.

"It was sort of the folly and dreams of the young," he said, and once again he spoke of his disappointment in the betrayed promises of independence.

Their 1973 experimental opus Tales of Topographic Oceans convinced would-be punks that this sort of rock folly simply had to stop.

It sits atop a sort of garden folly, an approximately 20-foot-tall Spanish-inspired watchtower, or torreon, made of rugged-looking moss rock.

"Twelfth Night" has been called Shakespeare's most musical play, and Gregory Wolfe, the Moonwork director, and the composers Andrew Sherman and Rusty Magee have turned it into a sort of Shakespearean follies with an eclectic mix of songs that range from boogie to ballads, blues and even barbershop.

But it's still a terrible story of folly.

There is a darkness about Trump that negates that sort of humor: a folly so bewildering, an incompetence so profound that no insult could plumb its depths.

These sorts of architectural follies are hardly radical, but are rarely visible, since their roots are more European than American.

It is doubtful that Watson with his challenge was making some sort of gesture at the folly of kicking to Kearney, but it was worth making anyway.