Sentence examples for to folly from inspiring English sources

But private firms are hardly immune to folly.

The appreciation of grandeur encompasses sensitivity to folly, confusion, selfishness and all the sources of misery.

(He sashayed straight to Schlesinger's "notion of history as an antidote to folly").

So it is around Jewel (Ms. Tyler), who affects men in ways that often lead to folly.

There's Michael Dukakis's tank ride to folly, of course, with a link to the Democrats' desperate antidote ad.

Why was it fought at all? Segev is far from the first historian to argue that the 1967 war resembled less the David-and-Goliath narrative popularized by romantic propagandists than a multi-sided tragic march to folly.

"The idea behind the project relates to buildings put up as memorials to loved ones, to follies, to eccentric home-built structures, to shrines, lighthouses and fairytales".

The mansion is surrounded by formal gardens and a series of avenues leading to follies within a larger wooded park.

Many were destroyed between the 17th and 18th centuries in civil wars, or incorporated into gardens as an alternative to follies.

But it became clear that there were limits to their ability to arbitrage folly away.

There are 1,800 historic follies or grottoes dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries, according to the Folly Fellowship, a preservation group.