Sentence examples for terrible folly from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, what about the moral courage of those who stood against the war fever of post-9/11 America to oppose the war in Iraq, or the moral courage of the men and women whose bodies and lives are forever scarred by their participation in this terrible folly?

Or will Mr Cameron end up, against his wishes, leading Britain out of the European Union an über-blunder in the making?In this section The voice of God Portrait of a hero as a young man Textual healing Squandering it Glittering haul ReprintsThat his government will commit some terrible folly, at a cost of a few hundred million pounds if it is lucky, is highly probable.

But it's still a terrible story of folly.

But it's no joke; it's a terrible tale of folly and disaster.

Quiet but one terrible corner exhibited the folly of him taking the set pieces Substitutes Sterling (for Vardy, 66), ran at his full-back and gave England a new ball-carrying point of attack; Wilshere (for Milner, 66), added quick feet and a subtlety of pass which will give Hodgson food for thought; Sturridge (for Kane, 78); Lallana (for Rooney, 78); Henderson (for Alli, 90).

The typical protagonists of an American story from that hard-to-remember era may have been tragic, wounded, haunted by demons, capable of great folly or even terrible violence, but their creators' attitude towards them was generally sympathetic, and the style of portraiture was essentially ennobling.

The wall drawing, you might say, recounts our terrible human predilection for self-destruction and folly.

"My most current song -- Sondheim's 'Losing My Mind' from 'Follies' -- is from 1970, which is just terrible!" he screeches, not meaning it.

It's memorable but again lowers the man from a titan taking a terrible blow to an old fool realizing too little and too late his folly.

"But if the reviews are terrible and the box office tapers off then it's going to be remembered as the most colossal folly ever".

A few sentences into each document and it was real and vivid all over again: the official lies and deceptions buried under acronyms and jargon; the headlong folly of arrogant policymakers; the fateful decisions made in the shadows or on the fly, and the years of terrible consequences.