Eksempler på foolishness

• Lightning would continue to illuminate, at least in political rhetoric, the foolishness of the people and the experts alike.

• The father's wildly inappropriate grin implies escapist tipsiness, foolishness, and immoderacy generally.

• The irrigation systems died from our own foolishness and our negligence.

• The foolishness is glaring in the case of finitely iterated prisoners' dilemmas or centipede games.

• One official reported that 'to the masses of the people, sanitation is foolishness'.

• The foolishness and wisdom of age : attitudes toward the elderly as reflected in jokes.

• We have all heard of unfortunate people who have lost what they call their "life savings" by foolishness or indeed by greed.

• They cannot be dismantled; they will be buried in concrete—monuments to the foolishness of man for future generations.

• I thought that he had espoused foolishness because he had been told to do so.

• Such foolishness, widespread in many areas, would be deterred if people had to contribute to a sensible scheme.

• A journalist has got to tell the truth about wickedness and foolishness without fear or favour.

• They, however, are not to be blamed entirely, or even chiefly, for all the sorry wickedness and foolishness.

• After all, there is the old maxim, caveat emptor—it is impossible to protect everybody from his own foolishness.

• Only the ideological foolishness of ultraliberalism and of misguided free trade remained intact.

• By doing so, he has opened himself to charges of hypocrisy and foolishness.