Sentences with phrase «about folly»

Loyola 2L's experience teaches a valuable lesson that transcends his more limited point about the folly of taking on massive law school debt in a job market that offers no guarantee of financial success.

I agree with Catweazle's remarks about the folly of thinking AGW could be «tackled» through human effort, and of course, I remain skeptical about what exactly «AGW» is and to what extent it should even be a concern.

It is very clear, therefore, that Ed Davey (Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change) had both these men in mind when he spoke about the folly of people who deny the reality of anthropogenic climate disruption: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/06/04/2097641/uk-climate-minister-slams-media-and-blinkered-deniers-its-the-science-stupid/

There are a lot of news items in major media starting to appear about the folly of Professor Chris Turney's tourism disguised as science expedition.

ABOUT THE FOLLY PROGRAM Socrates Sculpture Park and the League launched «Folly» in 2012 as a residency and exhibition program to explore the intersections between architecture and sculpture.

Wayne Thiebaud gets you to think about the folly and hubris of shaping the landscape to suit our needs.

Somewhat appropriately, his innumerable short stories about the folly of mankind's lust for knowledge, and understanding even in the deepest of depths became popular only once he couldn't see them truly succeed.

We've spoken ad nauseum about the folly of many sandbox games and the thing is that unless a developer has something worth doing in a sandbox environment there is no shame in a linear experience (especially if your sandbox is going to feel linear anyway).

First Strike: Final Hour sends a not - so - subtle message about the folly of nuclear warfare.

In this sense, the film feels like a drolly amusing riff on David Fincher's 2007 classic, Zodiac, itself about the folly of searching for finite truth.

Your new love is bound to take you to see the local trio dangermuffin, so do yourself a favor and learn all the words to their song coffin island, written about folly beach.

I agree with you that anti nutrients in plants is crap, but so is the rubbish about the folly of eating animal products.

Conservative rhetoric about the folly of borrowing more is still a powerful argument on the doorsteps.

As part of my role as the Britmums Family Days Out editor I have read and included many posts about Folly Farm and have been itching to visit for some time.

So Business Insider, in its writeup turned this into a lesson about the folly of asking for a raise without knowing for sure how valuable you are to your employer.

If Tocqueville called us practical Cartesians, there's a manner in which we're practical Hobbesians about the folly of felicity — and this despite our recognition that, in the land of equal freedom, the pursuit of happiness is the only game in town.

I bitch about the folly of link bait and pagerank, I whine about sandboxes and anchor text schemes.

Not exact matches

Even with the likelihood Twitter will avoid Facebook's follies, Olson says investors may want to think twice about buying the company out of the gate.

The consequences of this folly are far reaching for anyone who cares about good journalism, enjoys bingeing on Netflix, works with advertising, or plans to have a role in the future of the Internet.

If we call ourselves Christians, but have become so enmeshed in sin again so that we no longer hear or care about the Holy Spirit's conviction, then there is a strong possibility that we have offended him to the point that he abandons us to our folly and we are no longer sealed unto salvation by his presence.

It was easier just to talk about tax cuts, missile defense, and the follies of liberal celebrities.

The term «Atheist» is a label used by Christian only, not by people who see the fantasy (not necessarily the folly) that this stories are all about.

There are deliberate paradoxes put next to each other, to make us think about them («Do not answer a fool according to his folly... Answer a fool according to his folly», Proverbs 26:4 - 5).

That which may be wisdom when spoken by an old man about past events may be folly in the mouth of a youth or of a grown man when spoken of the present.

Apprehensive from the time of Roosevelt's «portentous» talk in Chicago in October 1937 about quarantining Japan — and fearful of a «repetition of the folly of 1917» — it broke with the president, eventually terming him the Führer of an inchoate fascism.

This is just an observation to educate and wake people up to the folly of making foolish assumptions about anonymous posters in here.

Yet it was never demoralizing or cynical; the burden of Malcolm's wit, like that of the medieval and Renaissance Christian fools about whom he loved to discourse, as in Erasmus» Praise of Folly or Shakespeare's King Lear, was always, implicitly or explicitly, that we were all fools in need of laughter, forgiveness, and grace.

Proverbs 26:11 talks about a fool returning to his folly right before mentioning the danger of claiming oneself as wise.

Here (they will think) was a people who behaved as though the interesting and important thing about the Mass was the prospect of restyling the package; as though sin and folly resulted from a bad condition of the ecclesiastical machine; as though, given only a rending of garments according to current fashion and theory, our cold hearts would warm up naturally and painlessly.

There are frequent references in Moral Sentiments to a «divine Being», «the great Director of the universe», «the all-wise Author of Nature» to obey whose will is considered as the first rule of duty of human beings; even their vices and follies fitted into the grand design of the Author of Nature whose hand always brought about a cosmic harmony.

But that said, beware of Dream Crushers poseurs of things «realistic» and feign concerns about your welfare, lest you be unaware of your own folly, on way to some dream.

Wine Folly About - Behind the scenes in wine and spirits through video episodes, articles and online «drinking» courses.

This Wine Folly post about Cab Franc noted that the wine goes especially well with herbs.

Lunacy — extreme folly or eccentricity It wasn't a personal attack, it's just a statement about how I feel about a certain opinion.

Funny thing about the Warriors» field goal follies.

This is not a small thing to folly with as a Wednesday afternoon joke, we're talking about the removal of an icon.

but what most fans do nt understand is behind the scenes a lot of moves go on which they do nt know about... its only what, they want fans to see they dish out... hence the folly of such accusations, because ive also managed celebrities before..

A real public debate about the pros and cons of staying in the EU — including not stymieing the efforts of fellow member states in the midst of deep crisis — can perhaps rescue the UK from this foreign policy folly.

But this is primarily about self - determination, the rights of people to live free from the expansionist folly of their arrogant, stronger neighbours.

«Anyone who is truly concerned for the family as the building block of society, and is realistic about the mobility of British people today, must see both the folly of this policy and how it is an affront to the status of British citizenship,» Nichols added.

And if you hate yourself for scarfing up every tidbit about the out - of - wedlock children of former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Sen. John Edwards, or the extramarital follies of Sen. David Vitter and former Sen. John Ensign, and former Govs. Mark Sanford and Eliot Spitzer — and before that, of former President Bill Clinton — you can relax.

The assurances that her ministers made about a golden future under Brexit will be shown to be folly, if not deliberate downright lies.

Mamas Follies is a place to learn about sound nutrition, natural healing, healthy living, sustainable farming, and receive encouragement towards a better life!

Still, there's something ineffably beautiful about such a purehearted folly, even if a Herzogian drama about the making of «Loving Vincent» might have more to offer than the film does itself.

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

Couple Shandling's inner philosophy with the themes of The Larry Sanders Show — which doted on the follies of egomaniacs and as Apatow says «was about people who loved each other, but show business got in the way» — and one wonders how Shandling's $ 100M lawsuit with late manager and friend Brad Grey rattled his world.

Yes, we've seen these elements before, but the film carries a wise self - awareness about the familiarity, and is even able to toe the line between questioning the folly of war and respecting the sacrifice of soldiers in battle.

Directed by the versatile Leo McCarey, a master of improvisation and slapstick as well as a keen and sympathetic observer of human folly, «The Awful Truth» is a warm but unsparing comedy about two people whose flaws only make them more irresistible.

Even then, what they're usually talking about is something like Cloud Atlas, Bonfire of the Vanities, or some other totally fascinating but catastrophic folly made by an overly ambitious director possessed of more money than sense.

While everyone is caught up in passionately loving someone who loves somebody else, a story unfolds about art, fame, parents, children and human folly.