Sentence examples for sort of fool from inspiring English sources

And I felt like the worst sort of fool then, a midday insomniac feeling nostalgia for homework.

If you are a ripe, juicy, sun-kissed sort of fool, your reaction to the outcome will be: "Darn!

Marat's big idea is to first locate his stricken boat and then drag it inch by inch towards the sea – the sort of fool's errand that would make Fitzcarraldo proud.

Probably the same sort of fool who buys newly issued closed-ends at a premium.

A sort of, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

That was always a sort of fool's game.

What sort of fools will we look?" Durrell - himself a former diplomat - was born in India to an English father and Anglo-Irish mother.

Mr. Frayn uses his instinctive gift for satire to send up the sort of fools who take Dr. Wilfred's pompous theories seriously and who have flocked to Skios in order to wallow in the Toppler Foundation's luxurious, spalike facilities, while congratulating themselves on their participation in a serious intellectual endeavor.

Patient: They just told me that I had liver…they called it another name, it sort of fooled me for a wee while.

(Patient 6, male, 74, first interview) Patient: They just told me that I had liver…they called it another name, it sort of fooled me for a wee while.

He didn't want to be only another kind of fool, a sort of Peeping Tom of charity".