Sentences with phrase «at folly»

Spent a week at Folly Beach last month, it was great!

The Grace Center of Charleston is hosting their 2nd annual prayer minister training event, «Breaking Through» at Folly Beach, SC.

One can find a history of idiocy amplified by partisan point - scorers on the environment, on foreign policy, on taxation, on human rights etc., but laughing at folly is very different to dealing with real and serious underlying issues.

Ellis points, in particular, at the folly of performance investing: that is, defining your success as «beating the market,» a nearly impossible and utterly irrelevant objective.

Although I did mention that the film doesn't go for big laughs, once you come to like the characters, you'll laugh at the folly of their situations just as you would members of your own family.

We laugh at their folly, their situations, and their irrational fears, just as we would a good friend in the same situation.

What Parker wants us to do is to sneer at the folly of well - to - do health seekers who embrace the teachings of a zealot who urges them to have up to five colonic washes a day.

Finding a venue that has great food at great prices, an excellent atmosphere and is on your doorstep is often difficult but this is not the case at the Folly Bar.

I will recap our trip in a future blog post (in the meantime follow me on Instagram Stories @laceandlocks) but first I wanted to share a pretty seaside look I wore today at Folly Beach in South Carolina.

Dow also pointed to activities taken by officials at Folly Beach, South Carolina, an island which has faced erosion due to changing sea levels.

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Evidently the Steeler brain trust was so pleased that Dallas had used up all of its time - outs on defense that they had forgotten the rule, and now they could only be aghast at their folly.

So funny, I can hear God laughing at your folly.

Hares, cats and owls laugh at our follies: in Harrison's imagined world, animals «take on human qualities to mock our existence, whilst we destroy our own habitat, regardless.

I could never get made mad at his follies - My rescue dog also has a liking for starfish and....

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.

First, it was folly to presume that consumers were rational, at least to the extent that rationality could be reduced to easily articulable features balanced against price (or appreciating that round numbers aren't anything special).

But don't worry, we here at Market Folly believe eeeeeeverything will be just hunky - dory!!!

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.

In essence, that is one of the main goals here at Market Folly.

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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.»

Not only do they not believe in a God, and sit here and ridicule everyone that don't sgree with them, but the same God they don't believe in, is the first thing they will throw out at a believer, who gets some righteous anger towards thier folly?

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.

The Folly of Scientism Austin L Hughes, a professor of biology at the University of South Carolina, has written a perceptive, thought - provoking article in The New Atlantis magazine, concurring with my own view of current philosophical trends in popular scientific presentations.2 One of these trends is «scientism», the view that science is the only source of truth and reality.

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.»

My grammar was off because I am currently sitting at my desk at my job at a major University finishing up some last minute work and I really do not have time to check my grammar while I am doing other things while I am entertaining you fools in your folly; next!

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.

Advancing yourself, by attacking to reduce those around you is a folly at best; you did not improve by this act, and may have done damage to others with hurtful thoughts and actions.

And yet that folly is at present my only wisdom, my sole happiness.

(«As I myself look at it, there is no fault or folly of my life... that does not rise up against me.»)

Life is neither farce nor genteel comedy, it says, but something we must sit at in mourning garments, hoping its bitter taste will purge us of our folly.

The oriental ideal of the absolute monarch who «could do no wrong» invaded Israel's court in the days of David, if, indeed, it was not already manifest under Saul; it became supreme through Solomon's reign; it was the impelling principle in Rehoboam's folly at Shechem (I Kings 12: 14).

At the end, mankind will realize all the ambitions and greed were nothing but follies.

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At a pub by the quay, the Queens Head, I ordered fish and chips and a pint of a local brew, Puck's Folly, and eavesdropped on a chapter meeting of the local rowing club.

Think I'd better whip up your spicy chorizo and chicken and remember to laugh at life's follies... You are absolutely right to laugh, Maureen.

There are obviously legs in the rumour that he really doesn't want to go to Manure, so it would seem that Wenger could negotiate a good deal for him as well, which ever way you look at it, it would be folly to think that Coq could go an entire season with no injury whatsoever.

They won't run at will and have their way with us, but to think we are going to somehow shut them down is just folly.

If there's a caveat, it's that Diaz has never posted strikeout rates like this in the minors, so maybe it's folly to expect him to continue at this same pace.

When I wrote this piece, it was clear to me that recent draft history indicates it is folly to write off players being available later than expected, especially at the less valuable positions.

It's folly not to look at every angle in the pursuit of greatness.

The football follies in Atlanta came to an abrupt end on Feb. 1, 1977, when Smith turned over control of the front office to Eddie LeBaron, the 5» 5» former quarterback of the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys, who was practicing law in Las Vegas at the time.

There is just a chance we could find ourselves repeating the folly of so many and trying to buy success at any price.

When Trent Alexander - Arnold wheeled away in celebration in Germany this week, and tried gamely to calm his mind after his magnificent achievement, he knew that any attempt at casualness and insouciance would be an act of folly.

Now it would be folly to assume at this point that this level of performance will definitely continue for the whole campaign; as much as we'd like them to, the Reds won't hit double figures for shots on target for every single home game this season, as they have so far.

We went to Watkin's Folly, and it is a pub utterly and totally to be avoided at all costs.

To lose him at all let alone to lose him for nothing would be sheer folly.

I can only hope, in line with the mother's professed faith, that they will have to face a higher power at some point who will bring them to justice for their folly.

In addition to Winter Follies, the village also has bonfires from 7 to 9 p.m. every Friday and Saturday through Feb. 22 at the Winter Wonderland / Centennial Park.