Sentences with phrase «folly with»

In the English eccentric category, Harrod's, the famous department store, has sponsored this marvelous folly with trees that twirl, window boxes that pop up and down and scissors that automatically trim a bush.

Then, in lieu of questions (this forum's existential weakness), he screened an infomercial for Falconcity, some real - estate folly with a fake Paris, a fake New York, and — because those bombastic builders can't help but envy those bad - ass demolishers — a fake Beirut.

Almost from the beginning, the work included references to popular culture and mixed eroticism and folly with a critique of consumerism.

As the quest designer and writer of a small indie studio, it fell to me to share our wisdom and folly with the indie community.

Many industry experts have said that HP is going down the road of pure folly with suspending its PC and Tablet operations.

I didn't need to be convinced of that... At worst, he purposefully makes himself a sitting duck for «how not to be» and then contrasts his own folly with the wise teachings of the Dalai Lama.

On a larger scale, it builds on the concept of the western antihero, studying avarice and folly with the same keen eye Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood would employ a decade later in their more self - aware spaghetti westerns.

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

While Germany was fortunate and sensible enough to have avoided engaging in the 2000s housing bubble folly with the rest of the world, Germans certainly seem eager to make up for lost time.

Facebook further offers you the opportunity to witness a glorious display of familial fanfare, marital bliss, friendship follies with mistletoe and kisses at every click of a page.

Not exact matches

Dealing with America's trade follies.

If you're set on a beach day, Folly Beach will be celebrating with fireworks (set off by professionals) on the 4th.

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.

Boy, to say there's no risk is folly: It's definitely a very competitive, dynamic market, with a new equilibrium forming between electronic sales and bricks - and - mortar.

Starting a trade war with your most important trading partners (China and Mexico, for instance) is pure folly since the certain outcome of such a confrontation is a net loss of American jobs and growth.

But, to refrain from passing from one figure to another, I will raise this question, which I often consider in my own heart: why is it that folly holds us with such an insistent grasp?

His 2009 book with Carmen Reinhart, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly has been widely cited by academics, policymakers and journalists, while its massive data set has been extensively used by researchers worldwide.

South Korea and Japan together are responsible for almost 30 % of global trade volume, so excluding Korean exchanges with so much influence on the markets could be considered folly.

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.

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?

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.

But such folly is recorded in the OT Israelites whose greed drove them to give up their relatively egalitarian social system and to emulate the neighboring Amorites with their disparities from fabulous wealth to abject poverty.

Bottom line: lets combine Islam, Judaism and Christianity with one book free of all the frauds, folly and failures of the these current religions.

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.»

True wisdom is true honor, and will gain a man a reputation, which is like a box of precious ointment, pleasing and very valuable... the reputation that is got with difficulty, and by a great deal of wisdom, may be easily lost, and by a little folly.

Ignored completely is the Lutheran and Augustinian doctrine of the bondage of the will which sees with stark clarity the folly of our claims of free agency.

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.

On the other hand, the non-Christian — the one who, living under a tyrannous regime or in a society where, it seems, social injustice will never end, wants to kill the tyrant or destroy the society; the one who, exploited or degraded by a colonialist regime, wants to kill the oppressor; the man who, victimized by a racist society, wants to avenge by violence the indignities heaped upon him — all these, along with their violence, their hatred, their folly, must be accepted by those of us who are Christians.

One can readily imagine that in the days before Sanforization it was the height of housewifely folly to patch a garment that had been worn, wetted and shrunk with a piece of unshrunken cloth.

A racist always betrays his true intentions with such unprecedented folly you just displayed.

satan is too smart, he has made the whole believe that Jesus did not found the catholic church, satan is too seductive to work with obvious folly like that, he lurks, not show up...

In a folly of individualist zeal, with no community of accountability, we kick off the dust of the institutional Church and take to high country like men crossing a glacier of crevasses unroped.

«But if this thing be true, and the tokens of v.irginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the wh.ore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.»

Mormonism, like the religions of the Testaments, is nothing more than a history of man and his follies mixed with ancient fairy tales for entertainment.

That much is common ground, and it is to be wished that Professor Arkes had stopped with that claim and illustrated the folly of ignoring it more copiously.

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.

And we remain on the earth, unchanged: human folly and tragedy remain what they have always been — but with the gnawing of love, the leaven concealed in the dough (but it has not yet risen), the seed hidden in the ground (but it has not sprung up), and the salt put in the soup (but it has not dissolved).

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.

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.

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.

It is virtuous that a man should in measure sympathize with the sufferings of the lower animals: only in measure, for someone who tried to sympathize with a shark or octopus or herring would be erring by excess...; their life is too alien to ours for sympathy to be anything but folly or affectation.

Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly....

Such folly liveth yet with human fools.

Surely, God is displeased by man's sinfulness, weeps over human folly and cruelty, and suffers with mankind in its manifold agonies.

Here again the root problem is the folly of trying to operate with Lockean principles in an unLockean world.

The English landscape is dotted with architectural follies, and English history is dotted with the sort of eccentric who would build them.

Our gospel is the unlikely tale that begins with an emperor's folly, for in setting out to register «all the world,» Augustus and his governor Quirinius put something into motion that transcends all earthly power.