Sentence examples for ultimate folly from inspiring English sources

They were kept from this ultimate folly by the steady, if irritated, attitude of President Eisenhower.

War, the eternal and ultimate folly of man, has no beginning and no end in the world of "Troilus and Cressida".

I like Shawn's response because it shows the ultimate folly of the dream: We can't know Wallace Shawn through his book recommendations; we can't really know him at all unless we actually know him.

Against this background, to shell out on a new round of reactors in the UK at £2bn a time, and then within a decade have to close perhaps 25% of them, must surely be the ultimate folly.

I admire the clarity and charity of Macy's argument: I like Shawn's response because it shows the ultimate folly of the dream: We can't know Wallace Shawn through his book recommendations; we can't really know him at all unless we actually know him.

We want it like the other one with all the creatures!'" Fincher said he saw the original trilogy as "the story of two slaves [C-3PO and R2-D2] who go from owner to owner, witnessing their masters' folly, the ultimate folly of man…" He added: "I thought it was an interesting idea in the first two, but it's kind of gone by Return Of The Jedi".

I have come here assuming that New York-New York is the ultimate Las Vegas folly.

Mark Twain at the height of sardonic glee or in the depths of bitter cynicism could not have conceived this scene: the nation's leading lawmakers rising, one by one, in their lofty chamber & solemnly announcing their approval of the ultimate political folly--chaos by legislation.

Mark Twain at the height of sardonic glee or in the depths of bitter cynicism could not have conceived this scene: the nation's leading lawmakers rising, one by one, in their lofty chamber & solemnly announcing their approval of the ultimate political folly--chaos by legislation View Article By Larissa MacFarquhar By Rivka Galchen By Jia Tolentino By Malcolm Gladwell.

Completed in 1895 at a cost of at least $5 million — that's about $90 million at current rates — Biltmore was the ultimate Gilded Age folly, dwarfing even Newport, R.I.'s Breakers, built by G.W. Vanderbilt's brother Cornelius II, and a more recent Xanadu, the Hearst castle in San Simeon, Calif.

'Follies' is the ultimate version of the Follies.