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Example sentences for: folly

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It's still a bit hard to believe, but it looks as if Japan's central bank has been radicalized--that is, it has finally seen the light, has finally understood that in Japan's current state adhering to conventional notions of monetary prudence is actually dangerous folly, and only monetary policy that would normally be regarded as irresponsible can save the economy.
The grandson of two confederate soldiers, McMillan was on record deriding "the folly ...
Forcing miscreants to attend high school is pure folly, based on three untruths: 1) any kid can be taught; 2) dropping out will turn a kid toward crime; and 3) without a high-school education you can't get a decent job.
She cuts up faces and bodies and fits together parts mismatched in size, color, and style, like a Dr. Frankenstein bent on demonstrating through surgery the folly of beauty culture.
In his 1755 Dictionary , Samuel Johnson derided the idea that a dictionary "can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature, and clear the world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation."