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Example sentences for: folly

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Your cravings for "real life" and youthful exuberance lead you to exactly the same folly as the popular press: You focus on the sensationalist at the expense of the subtle and reflective.
One that escapes that euphemism is Boldt’s Castle, the kind of Gothic folly that magnates liked to dabble in earlier this century.
Whatever folly of grandeur the financier entertained is best seen in the opulently paneled Oak Room and the stained-glass dome, marble floors, and Italianate bronze doors of the Conservatory.
Not so with Webster , for, owing to a bit of folly in the 1930s, G. & C. Merriam Company, of Springfield, Massachusetts, successors to the line of dictionaries originated by Noah Webster, published a synonym dictionary and called it a Webster . World Publishing Company, of Cleveland, had the wit to see that Merriam had, in effect, forsworn its birthright, for Noah had never published a synonym dictionary.
Tragically, you had no choice but to support him once the commitment was made, but of course making it was irresponsible folly.