Sentence examples for total folly from inspiring English sources

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"It's a total folly as a project," he said, given its cost.

That way lies the inevitable erosion to a rump of a high-minded BBC and a powerful case for ending the universal licence fee - a formula so provenly successful for so long that it would be total folly to throw it away now.

It also addresses his encounters, shortly before her death, with the "total folly" and "utter genius" of Diana, Princess of Wales, and his dealings with the "weird" and "at times maddening" Mr. Brown — only two of an arsenal of descriptives that seem unlikely to heal his relationship with his hapless successor.

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With no hesitation, he launched the Manchester Guardian into total opposition to that "act of folly, without justification in any terms but brief expediency" - and maintained the attack day after day.

Breaches are happening every day and to tally the total number of records affected would be folly.

This makes total sense since the play, with its satire on greed and folly, offers a vivid picture of the way a plague-afflicted London unleashes moral anarchy.

That's where the big hole has opened up and Tory councils have joined the chorus of protest against the folly of investing £2bn in affordable homes between now and 2020 while the total housing investment programme will be £44bn.

What folly.

Pure folly?

Folly within the folly.

It was folly.

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