Sentences with phrase «as folly»

Thankfully, their UNESCO status will help to preserve them so that future generations can know our accomplishments as well as our folly.

[3] To qualify as folly, a course of action must meet three criteria.

It just strikes me as folly.

It was originally created as a folly for a sculpture park exhibition at Wave Hill in New York City.

The work on display was groundbreaking, even to the point of vexing some conservative critics, who dismissed as folly works such as Robert Rauschenberg's Combine paintings, Jasper Johns's flags and targets, and especially four nearly monochromatic black paintings by a 23 - year - old Frank Stella.

But because he did not get everything EXACTLY right and because financial reporters did not know enough to ask for confidence limits, John Bogle's predictions are treated as folly.

New graduates must begin to understand the importance of saving early on as well as the folly of eliminating a loan within a couple of years.

And that way, Kate can live with not going on a trip she sees as a folly, and the husband who doesn't get along with Ray can drive him instead, leading to bickering shenanigans.

Here, there are echoes of the breakdown of the original Black Panther Party in its later years, as radicalized chapters sought a direct armed struggle to overthrow the U.S. government — a plan that most of the Party's established leadership saw as folly.

Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes (Alfred A. Knopf) Taubes's latest addition to the crowded genre of diet books dismisses as folly the common wisdom of calorie counting.

THE PROSPECT of producing black holes on Earth may strike some as folly.

Many energy experts, including the panelists at our recent town hall meeting, have the opposite perspective, seeing resistance to renewables as the folly.

It is the height of arrogance as well as folly for professionals in the field of mental health to ignore actual involvement of the community in the administration of community mental health.

Yet there is much in similar there as well... such as the folly of thinking that having possessions will bring you happiness.

Engineers and economists now regard many of the dams built over the past 50 years as follies.

Not exact matches

Some in the Canadian banking establishment regarded its generous interest rates on deposits — they began at 4 %, at least double that offered by Canada's dominant Big Six banks — as risible folly.

As you adopt this new paradigm, you'll clearly see the folly in giving your money away to fund someone else's vision before you have fully funded your own.

Stay tuned as we'll also post up summaries from day two of the event here at Market Folly as well as more in - depth research regarding some of the investment ideas.

The Value Investing Congress has been posting updates of the first day of the event on Twitter (make sure to follow us as well) and we wanted to aggregate their brief updates into a comprehensive post here on Market Folly.

«Part of that [having uncommon sense], I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom.

«Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognising wisdom.

Welles presents the fat knight as an unlikely prophet, rebuking the absurd folly of war in his very shape — an inversion of the spindly Don Quixote, satirizing not knight - errantry but the brutality of the battlefield.

Tyerman is not unaware of this, although he is quick to disclaim any such comparison: «It would be folly and hubris to pretend to compete, to match, as it were, my clunking computer keyboard with his [Runciman's] pen, at once a rapier and a paintbrush; to pit one volume, however substantial, with the breadth, scope and elegance of his three.»

(129) And who turns away from the religion of Abraham but such as debase their souls with folly?

Lear's folly does not play well as theological vaudeville.

Wow.Mr.Limbaugh's belated «apology «aside, I find myself stunned at the level of vitriol, rudeness, and sheer hatred we seem determined to spew at each across the web nowadays; its advent has obviously unleashed some deeply - buried, long - simmering resevoirs of hate, scorn, and opprobium that has finally boiled over among many of us.If we spent even a third of that energy seeking solutions to righting the badly - listing ship - of - state called America... Well.The politicians aren't going to do it, fellow citizens.As clever as we think we are venting over folly and nonsense on these websites, we had better get busy getting our nation's affairs in order, or we'll become the laughingstock of the world, with tiny,no - name third world countries thumbing their noses at us and telling us to «Get lost, America, you silly, Hollywood has - been.

As this medium does not allow me to privately point out your folly I can only hope you will learn when or if one should comment over time.

And first they are to be admonished, (whom folly has so made subject to their carnal eyes, as that, whatsoever they see not through them, they think not that they are to believe,) how many things they not only believe but also know, which can not be seen by such eyes.

The other theme, regularly expressed by those on the right in our politics, is to blame everything on the failures of «Great Society liberals,» to chalk the situation up to the follies of big government and big spending, to see the problem as the legacy of a tragically misconceived welfare state.

As one of his followers explained, he came to hear Millers lecture with a «determination to not believe, and to expose him and his folly to the people who should be present,» but he left «convicted, confounded and converted.»

Limited observation, limited procedure, and limited hypothesis have been often regarded as univerally valid, although some schools of thought are realizing the folly of this assumption.

The reading from 1 Corinthians focuses attention on the cross as the power of Christ: «For the word, of the cross is folly to...

Therefore much mystery to be had and it being folly to think of one perspective in human rational terms as being superior to the other.

The final document insists that all religious traditions are ambiguous, in that religion has functioned to support «wickedness and folly» as well as its higher aims.

What is meant is putting God's power and goodness to a test, acting rashly and expecting him to extricate us from the results of our folly, as the Israelites did on the occasion referred to in the verse Jesus quoted (Deut 6:16; cf. Ex 17:1 - 7; Ps 95:8 - 9): «as you tested him at Massah.»

Its utterances will necessarily either be in danger of being contradicted by obstinate «old believers» (such as happened also in Montanism, Novatianism, Donatism down reactionary Jansenism and Integralism) or of being falsified by a mentality which betrays the spirit of Christ, the folly of the cross and the courage to contradict a world lying in the Evil One by cheap «adaptation».

And should she be so foolish as to desire for herself only that which is earthly or even foolish enough to desire as well to draw you down to the earthly: yet a woman's folly shall certainly not be able to change the law of eternity.

To doubt its inspiration would be folly; on the other hand, to take it as literally inspired and therefore all of one level would be to miss the great events and the lights and shadows of experience that brought it into being.

Runciman's History resembles the medieval chronicles on which it is based, using narratives of events and depictions of individuals to draw moral as well as historical lessons: «by the inexorable laws of history, the whole world pays for the crimes and follies of each of its citizens.»

9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

If the Hebrews were, in fact, a «serious people» who viewed leisure as «folly» or at best an «impromptu» respite, then the «systematic hermeneutical task of appropriating the meaning of the biblical message [concerning play] for today's world» would be difficult, if not impossible.

His heaviest count against the prevailing teaching of his time is precisely this: that, starting with the best intentions, it had come to encourage this folly and evil, as if it were inseparable from a high moral standard.

Should someone explain that the fear of God, in the sense of that felt in this world of time, should belong to childhood and therefore disappear with the years as does childhood itself, or should be like a happy state of mind that can not be maintained, but only remembered; should someone explain that penitence comes like the weakness of old age, with the wasting away of strength, when the senses are blunted, when sleep no longer strengthens but weakens; then this would be Impiety and folly.

The second is to remain part of the public conversation, but only with sardonic observations: merrily pointing out the perpetual follies of the world, and branding as naïve any Christian foolish enough to believe they might actually change it.

I acknowledge that the social environments of family, race, class, education, work, culture, cult and nation are the inescapably human contexts that shape all our possibilities and achievements as well as our blindnesses and follies.

Henry never lost faith in man's enduring capacity for greatness — even as long experience compelled him to acknowledge, which was not quite the same thing as excusing, man's enduring capacity for folly.

It is a «place» made all the holier by its mute testimony to the folly of war, just as its replacement nearby, sparkling and ghastly, testifies to the folly of modern architecture.

IMF Director Christine Lagarde's withdrawal as Smith College's commencement speaker is the latest in a series of high - profile commencement follies aptly described by Harvard's Ruth Wisse as «The Closing of the Collegiate Mind.»

In spite of our persistence as sinners, we can have our reward in this life; we can defy God in this life; we can have fun and folly in this life, but, as sure as God is holy and just, in the life to come each of us shall pay every debt not made good in this life.

The «Father» of the Nation, being the United States of America is quoted saying; «The General is sorry to be informed — , that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a fashion; — he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.»