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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.
Even his lone May triumph, the planned purchase of the Los Angeles Dodgers for $350 million, has been dismissed as an expensive folly.
It would be sheer folly for such a company to invent preposterous lies and spins and feed them to the nation's most prominent publications.
The grandson of two confederate soldiers, McMillan was on record deriding "the folly ...
Now the former “Nathan’s Folly” is known as the “Golden Mile. ”