Sentence examples for with a foolish from inspiring English sources

It began ignominiously, with a foolish red card in Arsenal's opening-day crumple at Dinamo Zagreb.

Faced with a foolish nihilist for President, we can do that.

Too bad a prologue sets the stage with a foolish display of muddled melodramatics by a tragedian, a comedian and a jester.

The game ended in frustration for Charlotte, as Baron Davis (29 points) missed a 3-point jumper and Elden Campbell followed with a foolish decision.

11 39 p.m. | 70' Costa Rica goal disallowed!!!! Some dumb play by the Americans, starting with a foolish foul given away by Jones, leads to some pressure, but the linesman correctly lifts his flag.

Mr. Crawford faces significant Democratic opposition in the fall and is clearly betting that agreeing to a widely popular tax increase will be more important to his voters than sticking with a foolish, lockstep pledge.

"I write on paper, write on wall," the character says at another point, "with foolish heart a foolish scrawl".

Septimus is also sleeping with the wife of a foolish, vain, minor poet named Ezra Chater (the standout David Turner).

If any emotion was dominant in our talks, it was that flirting with disaster is such a foolish notion that no Chinese official seemed able to wrap his head around the idea that a country could be this stupid.

The slaughter is blamed on a fellow-student, Lord Poxe, who is censured by the Warden with the words "It was a foolish act, Lord Poxe, an act of wanton foolishness, but I do not wish to be hard on you.... Lady Emily Crane, your great aunt, you will remember, married a Mr Arthur Thorn, my grandfather.

But in 1870, the vain French emperor blundered into a foolish quarrel with Prussia and was deposed, along with the style that had become his trademark.