Sentence examples for sound foolish from inspiring English sources

That made Mr. Bryan sound foolish to many, but made him a hero to fundamentalists.

It's a funny moment, but it makes the woman sound foolish.

It is a longstanding practice on Capitol Hill for legislators to lampoon research projects that can be made to sound foolish.

Hitchens said the actor who voiced his column had offered up an "extreme mocking and derisive parody" of his voice which made him sound foolish.

Answering the 122 questions will reveal your pronunciation of the world "often," for example, reflects a phenomenon that Professor Vaux (pronounced vox) calls schizo-prestige: "Those who pronounce the T think that those who don't sound foolish, and vice versa".

Such ideas may sound foolish now – as Ed explicitly wrote in his right of reply – but it was of its time and he has long ago accepted that he does not share his father's political opinions.

He may have sounded foolish, but Mike's no fool.

Perhaps my epiphany sounds foolish now, pure adolescent hyperbole.

"I know this sounds foolish but I didn't want to be addicted," Hyde says, laughing at the irony.

He knows it sounds foolish, naive, but back in Bangladesh, he says, you don't get anything for free.

It sounds foolish to attribute the brilliance of "Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures," by Menno Metselaar and Ruud van der Rol, to the placement of her diary at its center.