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.