Sentences with phrase «like folly»

Back in the day it was Van Dyck and Canova who received the family's patronage; now it's Richard Wright, winner of the 2009 Turner prize, who has created an extraordinary painting in a turret - like folly in the castle grounds known as the «monkey house».

Trying to cram Nintendo's flagship brawler into its 3D handheld console might seem like folly, but for the most part Super Smash Bros. for 3DS works.

Even, however, if its thunder hadn't been immediately stolen by Birdman, which premiered three days before it at last August's Venice International Film Festival, The Humbling would still look like a folly.

But to some, string theory is beginning to look less like a foundation and more like a folly: intricate, beautiful and ultimately useless.

After all, installing giant nets along hillsides and mountaintops to catch water out of thin air sounds more like folly than science.

Post-Beeching closures like Bristol to Portishead and the Sussex line between Lewes and Uckfield have begun to look like folly.

Not exact matches

Wine is a lot like fruit: it browns when exposed to oxygen, according to Wine Folly.

Answer not a fool according to his folly lest you be like him; answer a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conceit.

But then, they cut off their nose to spite their face when they turn around and wield faith like a club of ignorance and folly!

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.

Whether the innocent suffer because of natural disasters (like earthquakes) or because the consequences of human folly and injustice (like wars and revolutions) do not fall only on the guilty, the burden of suffering is so heavy that praising God seems not only out of the question but also a violation of our moral sense.

I would like to present to you for your consideration the following verse in 1 Corinthians 2 verse 14: «The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned».

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.

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.

For this clear act of folly betrayed that the youth, in his youth, would like to have outgrown youth.

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.

Perhaps, for some individuals who have been chasing the Zeitgeist in this manner for a while, «folly» begins to seem like not such an unattractive option!

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.

And thank God for contrarians like Albert Borgman (Holding On to Reality) and Stephen Talbott (The Future Does Not Compute), who are helping to highlight the folly of our ways in a digital world.

Again, no need to interpret it, it's plain as day to God's people and second and most importantly, which you won't hear another word from me after this... Proverbs 26:4 «Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.»

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

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.

McCarthy is prone to falling for Combine warriors like Barbre and Spriggs, and he's stubborn as a mule --- as proven with the Capers» follies.

You can't hold them on a game like this — that would be folly and he would lose the dressing room.

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.

I thought this folly had been put to rest for once — but still delusional guys like you are out there promoting ignorance.

Rep. Peter KIng looked like he was pretty close to getting ill on camera himself as he was forced to comment on the folly of his Republican colleagues and at least you knew there was one sane Republican in the House.

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

While I was sick I watched some technicolor movies (like Ziegfeld Follies and Blithe Spirit) and the vivid color palettes were completely inspiring.

Franco's film dives into the insane folly of Tommy's passion project, how he buys, not rents, all of his shooting equipment, incurring massive costs for no other reason than to look like a big shot, or how he has a fake alleyway constructed to look exactly like the one outside the shooting stage.

The difference between Ryan and Vietnam pictures like Jacket or Platoon is largely that, while the Vietnam War is generally acknowledged to have been a botched job, it's far harder to dismiss World War II as military folly.

Between the hordes of stowaway rats that accompany Dracula's arrival, and a town - plaza dance of folly by doomed survivors (a Herzog addition), it's like being present at the birth of a medieval legend.

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.

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.

It's hardly «Heaven's Gate,» but there's a similar grandiosity of ambition — and a familiar sense of folly — to Scott Cooper's «Hostiles,» a $ 40 million, independently produced, sure - to - be-R-rated Western in a marketplace where even a more broadly appealing oater, like Seth MacFarlane's tongue - in - cheek «A Million Ways to Die in the West,» can barely earn that -LSB-...]

It's hardly «Heaven's Gate,» but there's a similar grandiosity of ambition — and a familiar sense of folly — to Scott Cooper's «Hostiles,» a $ 40 million, independently produced, sure - to - be-R-rated Western in a marketplace where even a more broadly appealing oater, like Seth MacFarlane's tongue - in - cheek «A Million Ways to Die in the West,» can barely earn that kind of money back.

It's the folly of so many independent filmmakers to just get a bunch of people in a place and to start shooting — but few have the goods like Silva does.

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.

They speak of realism and defend every perceivable folly (like Cameron's lack of a southern accent).

It's also possible that the film's failings are merely part of its oversized, insane charm, like the «folly» films that Pauline Kael described years ago.

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.

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.

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In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature.

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Smart investors like Graham profit from market folly rather than participate in it... Put another way, you should only buy when the price offered makes sense, and you should sell when the price becomes too high.

The Water Follies You say Schnauzers don't like water?

I absolutely love you blogs Tam — personally I've not the time nor the money to afford such follies - As always reading takes me on adventures like this which is why I love to read!

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