Foolishness Sentence Examples

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  • He'd put a stop to this foolishness.

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  • We did it just out of foolishness.

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  • There was no room for vandals and foolishness.

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  • It provides freedom and invites the impulse to engage in foolishness.

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  • I considered taking the chance of phoning from the comfort of my apartment but realized the foolishness of taking such a chance.

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  • He laughed and muttered something about foolishness.

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  • Her foreign policy was flighty to the verge of foolishness.

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  • A look of sheer amazement at the foolishness of this comment passed over the whole team.

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  • Christians have no standing in the Old Testament prophecies, and their talk of a resurrection that was only revealed to some of their own adherents is foolishness.

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  • A new world was discovered, for the sake of which everything else was abandoned; to make sure of that world insight and intelligence were freely sacrificed; and, in the light that streamed from beyond, the absurdities of the present became wisdom, and its wisdom became foolishness.

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  • He took a leading part in Absalom's revolt, and his defection was a severe blow to the king, who prayed that God would bring his counsel to "foolishness."

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  • No work upon earth is wrought apart from thee, lord, nor through the divine ethereal sphere, nor upon the sea; save only whatsoever deeds wicked men do in their own foolishness.

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  • They had also the proper name 'Elrt,.niOEin for the slow-witted brother of Prometheus who turned all the hero's wisdom to foolishness.

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  • Here--stop this foolishness!

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  • But this line of argument was latent in Christian thought from the time when St Paul spoke of the " foolishness " of preaching.

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  • I don't care about all your bones foolishness, but Fitz buying the vodka scares me.

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  • The foolishness and obstinacy of the ass has caused the name to be transferred metaphorically to human beings; and the fifth proposition of Book i.

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  • No, he was quick to say, it didn't come from any "psychic foolishness" which he didn't believe existed.

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  • The quiet expression of these startling ideas is more remarkable than their adoption; for smaller artists live on still more startling ideas; but most remarkable of all is the presentation of Parsifal, both in his foolishness and in the widsom which comes to him through pity.

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