Sentences with phrase «greater folly»

These limitations on states all point to the folly of mandating specific spending levels and the even greater folly of mandating specific levels of increased spending.

Perhaps Eichenwald's greatest folly is in arguing that anyone who adopts Paul's lawfree gospel must give up on the prohibitions of Leviticus against homosexual practice.

Another great folly of medicine like Semmelweis, bloodletting, etc..

But the return to form is a somewhat measured success — miles from the gobsmacking stupidity of his greatest follies but still a far cry from his strongest, most beloved works.

As Zorba says, «Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all... is not to have one.»

One of the great follies a company can make is failing to create a culture of unity.

Not exact matches

The problem, of course, is that continued spending would be folly for a great many consumers.

Regardless of whether the great scientist actually said it (the earliest print reference comes from an Alcoholics Anonymous pamphlet), it's the sort of advice you'd expect from the world's smartest guy: don't waste your time on repetitive folly.

It would be folly to mistake bid - ask bounce in deep value penny stocks, measured from the bottom of perhaps the greatest stock crash in U.S. history, for evidence of the long - term out - performance of all small stocks versus all large stocks across other, calmer periods.

Market Folly will be attending so we encourage everyone to come say hi and to support some great causes.

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.

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.

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.

THen human greed and folly produced the Great Depression and Dust Bowl.

Beyond that our main concern must be to see that man, whose folly drove him from the Garden of Eden, does not commit the blasphemous act of destroying, whether in fear or in anger or in greed, the great and lovely world in which, even in his fallen state, he has been permitted by the grace of God to live.

In Avatar, the official political interpretation of the Edenic moon Pandora is unobtainium repository, unobtanium being «a great whatsit» of a natural resource «that is an emblem of humanity's greed and folly.»

Rowling deals with human sin in a realistic and very modern fashion: even figures of great authority commit sins and must learn wisdom in the wake of youthful folly.

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.

In In Praise of Folly he had written, amongst other such sharp words: I myself once heard a great fool (a great scholar I would have said) undertaking in a laborious discourse to explain the mystery of the Holy Trinity.

WINE FOLLY: The Essential Guide to Wine (Avery, 2015) is for anyone who likes to drink great wine.

Whilst Wenger's obvious crimes and mismanagement follies includes a few unassailable facts; he bought him, kept him, loaned him and brought him back to cover an injury (it would appear the greatest crime was having the mere thought to possibly release him).

... No one in great authority had the wit, ascendancy, or detachment from public folly to declare these fundamental, brutal facts to the electorates; nor would anyone have been believed if he had...

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.

The 85 year old filmmaker is probably more well - known for his examinations of public institutions in films like Welfare (1975), Titicut Follies (1967), At Berkeley (2013) or High School (1968, followed by a sequel in 1994), but he's also one of cinema's great chroniclers of art as work.

To that hallowed list of great expensive follies — «John Carter,» «Ishtar,» «Heaven's Gate» — let us ceremonially add another name: «King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.»

Ostensibly a recreation of the Follies of Broadway fame, and starring William Powell reprising his role as Ziegfeld from 1936's The Great Ziegfeld in a very thin frame device, this is really just a series of sketches and musical numbers with no connecting material whatsoever.

10:15 am — TCM — Ziegfeld Follies Rather than go the biopic route to exploit Ziegfeld and their cast of thousands (oh, wait, they already did that with The Great Ziegfeld 10 years earlier), MGM instead modeled Ziegfeld Follies after an actual Ziegfeld show — it's basically just a series of sketches and musical sequences in revue format.

Here's a movie that so many, myself included, regarded with great prejudice, sizing it up as a cute jaunt that had to be seen along with the other year - end contenders, yet reeked of folly, diminished stakes, and outright opportunism, its attachment to a trilogy making excess seem like one more strike against it.

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Only with this book did I finally and fully grasp the great tragic folly of Pickett's Charge.

The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God?

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Conversely, some of the greatest financial follies have also occurred in the hedge fund industry, whether it be the collapse of Long Term Capital Management or the Ponzi - scheme fallout of Bernie Madoff's Ascot Partners.

This is a short book that in some ways is a summary of Reinhart and Rogoff's greater work This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly.

Folly Field is where the locals go and has the widest beach area; it's also a great surfing spot.

Historic downtown Charleston South Carolina is less than ten miles from popular Folly Beach where a great choice in vacation rentals is available.

No matter if the vacation is to relax or take tours and enjoy the scenery, Folly Beach is a great destination for beach goers.

2010 100 Years of Performance, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia Off the Wall: Part 1 — Thirty Performative Actions, curated by Chrissie Iles, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Contemporary Art from the Collection, Curated by Kathy Halbreich, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Soaps Flukes and Follies, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN Greater New York 2010, PS1 MoMA, Long Island City, NY At Home / Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, curated by Matthew Higgs, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY

Global warming is a great illustration of the folly of putting too much faith in a majority consensus viewpoint which is driven ultimately and invariably by consensus ideology.

I'd about given up on you then you come along with that great graphic showing the folly of using hundred year temperature baselines for predicting the next hundred years.

Herein lies the folly of the great global warming «religion».

Had a great comment on Victor's newest folly, the Mad Billionaire Climate Disaster scenario, but it was somehow wiped out by a single errant keystroke.

«It was once the Great Room of the folly and it's now accessed via «secret» mirrored doors.

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