Sentences with phrase «more folly»

Are the changes likely to improve the current Versus gameplay, or is this yet more folly on the part of Valve?

Or maybe it was just more folly of men making up some rules the best they knew how without any inspiration from a god who would've known better?

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Even still passing up family vacations while your income is small just to get a few more K in the retirement fund is folly.

They may be right or wrong in an expectation that the situation will improve, but they're not going to get easily spooked by yet more evidence of banker folly.

This confidence in the perspicuous insight of common sense may indeed allow for more sophistication than various fundamentalist follies, but it is hardly an adequate approach.

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.

«But Americans have plainly valued these forms of liberalization more than we valued the backdrop, and it is folly now to wish we could recapture the circumstances that America has been systematically demolishing for six decades and more.»

We can put aside the struldbrugs in Gulliver's Travels, who had lived for hundreds of years and «who had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more, which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying.»

Of course, folly in the tradition of ancient wisdom literature involves something more tragic than wasting energy trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records.

Churchill said, «No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.»

In modern forms it grants that through human sin and folly life may indeed end on this planet — a possibility that has become the more acute through the unleashing of nuclear energy and the advance of ecological destruction.

Be that as it may, it is reasonable to surmise that the Corinthian heresies sought to reduce the offensive starkness of the Christian message, to make it less of a «folly,» more in line with conventional assumptions and values.

In the political arena, «what will really matter is whether those in power expect more from people's folly than from their wisdom and independence of mind.

The man whose sin and folly and ignorance have taken him far from God may be more likely to be repelled than reconciled by crude moralism; but eventually he must come to see the need to accept God's grace and turn away from sin.

It would be folly to add more.

Of course it is more pleasant for the players and the managers to be applauded than to be booed but to blame bad results on the fans is folly.

Conservative rhetoric about the folly of borrowing more is still a powerful argument on the doorsteps.

Yes indeed, the RNC has lots of cash, and I keep wondering when the Post is going to start covering the European investigations (yep, there are several) that the RNC funnelled millions of dollars illegally into European elections in an attempt to buy friendly «allies» for Bush's Iraq folly, the neocon gobalizationinsanity, and a whole lot more.

Anything less than a significant increase in the Conservative majority and this election will prove to have been an expensive (in more than one sense) folly.

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

The early days of Biosphere 2 demonstrate the folly of the more mystically inclined ecologists in seeing a purpose in...

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

As it turns out, more doctors are realizing the folly of shots.

The folly of youth has subsided, time is still very much on your side and you have a bit more disposable income to play with — you've never been more ready to start fulfilling your dreams.

Deceptively clever and possessing an innate understanding for the follies of human nature, the film is a romantic comedy that offers up more thoughtful questions than one with pre-conceived judgments may expect.

[it is] far closer to the hermetic enigmas of Last Year in Marienbad and the snowglobe microcosms of Citizen Kane than to more generic fare, and the result is an elegantly eccentric folly - playful, perplexing and paradoxical in equal measure.

Still, there's something ineffably beautiful about such a purehearted folly, even if a Herzogian drama about the making of «Loving Vincent» might have more to offer than the film does itself.

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-...]

Add to this new films, split across the Venice Days, Orrizzonti and Out of Competition sidebars, from an array of interesting names including Chantal Akerman («Almayer's Folly»), Mary Harron («The Moth Diaries»), Al Pacino («Wilde Salome,» the cast of which includes — you'll never guess — Jessica Chastain) and even James Franco (here furthering his friendship with American gay culture with a biopic of 1950s teen idol Sal Mineo) and there should be more than enough to explore even once the festival has blown its pre-Toronto load.

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.

Directed by the versatile Leo McCarey, a master of improvisation and slapstick as well as a keen and sympathetic observer of human folly, «The Awful Truth» is a warm but unsparing comedy about two people whose flaws only make them more irresistible.

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.

But unlike «Sin City», it's disastrous: a barely comprehensible folly that's probably more palatable if you view it as an art installation rather than a film.

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.

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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The film, more likely to invite comparisons to the writings of Marcel Proust than the previous Ip Man films, is a gorgeous folly that never entirely emerges from its creator's head.

This semester we wanted to try something a little more abstract, so we we will be coding another 2,500 or so essays in response to Marsden Hartley's painting, Eight Bells Folly, which is pictured above.

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«I calculate that, take the whole world over, from eighty to one hundred thousand books appear every year; at an average of a thousand copies, this makes more than a hundred millions of books, the majority of which contain only the wildest extravagances or the most chimerical follies, and propagate only prejudice and error.

But Amazon is far more vulnerable to a price war than MS was... Amazon doesn't have a high margin monopoly product to subsidize its follies.

The world and national economies at their worst are always more volatile than what the models will say, and governments prove weak when matched against the folly of their failed policies.

In this 10 September 2007 blog post Yet more evidence on the folly of forecasting, or why we don't need economists!

Avian Food With Less Filler Following the same trend of consumers moving toward more healthful bird food, Andrea Tilley, store manager of Feathered Follies in Concord, Calif., used Higgins» cooked brand, Worldly Cuisines, as an example.

Feathered Follies carries this brand because it doesn't list corn or soy, which are traditional bird food fillers, in the first few ingredients, she said, adding that the Higgins cook - and - serve product provides more nutritionally complete ingredients, including peas and quinoa.