Sentence examples for sound foolhardy from inspiring English sources

Infecting vulnerable patients with a tropical illness may sound foolhardy, but dengue fever is less likely to kill the average adult than the common cold – making it the safest choice of infection.

OPENING a restaurant in the dead of winter on Martha's Vineyard sounds foolhardy.

Ellington in particular seemed like an unscalable mountain; whenever it tackled his self-possessed music with its busy style, it sounded foolhardy.

As a premise "Pan Am" sounds foolhardy, a knockoff that can't possibly live up to the original, like a network trying to copy "The Sopranos" with a series about a ring of car thieves in Indianapolis.

Mr Marcus has chosen a trio of stories for the first issue: one from Stephen Dixon, an established novelist, a second from Jason Schwartz, author of "A German Picturesque", and a third from an unpublished writer named Chanelle Benz.Launching a niche magazine at a time when print media is struggling sounds foolhardy but Ms Maduka is confident the American Reader can flourish.

To the non-hedonist this might sound incredibly foolhardy, but for the 20-year-old who's spend the last dregs of their pay on some pills they can't afford to replace, there's a twisted logic to it.

It also sounds a bit simple, even foolhardy.

Investing in an independent bookstore may not be as foolhardy as it sounds.

Casio CPS-300 (list $599; sold for under $500): an attempt to simulate piano touch and sound in a low-priced synthesizer; a foolhardy ambition, amiably approximated.

Mr. Elton also tosses off jibes at boy bands and Britney Spears, but the book's insistent glorifying of old-school rock 'n' roll, as opposed to the "computer-recorded anodyne pop" that is the sanctioned sound of the future state, is either foolhardy or cynical.

"But maybe it's also foolhardy". At this thought, for all her seriousness, she sounds almost giddy.