follies in English
an act of sheer folly
The monument to the seventh Earl continued the tradition of follies and garden buildings begun in the 18th century.
the Ziegfeld Follies
Use "follies" in a sentence
1. He has given up youthful follies.
2. Make us guffaw at thy futile follies.
3. She has grown out of her youth follies.
4. They are imbrued with the follies of youth.
5. Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
6. His follies come to mind along with kindnesses.
7. Have you aided other men in their perverted follies?
8. An ice skating show, Ice Follies is very entertaining.
9. The experience taught me follies of being a cultural purist.
10. my own follies and weakness that even this counterfeit Venus
11. Let the sea wash your follies and your vanities away.
12. An ice skating show,(Sentencedict.com ) Ice Follies is very entertaining.
13. Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
14. The follies of youth are food for repentance in old age.
15. The GIs and nurses dance in a holiday revue titled "Thanksgiving Follies".
16. He's like an old Roman consul snorting at the follies of the government.
17. Synonyms for Absurdities include follies, stupidities, foolishnesses, idiocies, preposterousness, ridiculousnesses, sillinesses, farcicalities, inanities and
18. Field goal follies At least four games this season were decided on field goal blunders.
19. With small, isolated follies and temples, one solution is to let them out to artists.
20. How I love to listen to men of distinguished lives... sing of past follies and glories.
21. The greatest scientists have mixed insight amounting to genius with the most absurd follies at other times.
22. Mary Read closed the school after providing one final line-up in the Princetown Follies in 19
23. Call his machines what you will-sculptures, utopian models, proposals, follies-they reflect a will to succeed.
24. Trade follies In different ways, paralysis in monetary and fiscal policy played a critical role in 1929-
25. Crenellations, arrow loops, and Gothic follies were added later, but the money ran out before reaching the third floor
26. 29 The impatience of the genius with the follies of littler men gives thrust and venom to Swift's satirical output.
27. Such is the delight that people take in seeking out follies at weekends that the Fellowship has quickly gathered momentum.
28. It was beauty that was natural and artificial at once, and the blend created this flower child of the Follies.
29. And I like his doodles, follies and ideas toyed with and abandoned in impatience, the debris of a restless desire.
30. He was a social satirist who portrayed the vices and follies of the aristocratic society of the London of his time.
31. History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. History and Historians. Edward Gibbon
32. Norman Borine is an actor, known for A Star Is Born (1954), Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) and Ziegfeld Follies (1945).
33. Aged Doris Eaton Travis was in the famous Follies show run by Florenz Ziegfeld - regarded as Broadway's first glittering song and dance extravaganza .
34. 4 He was a social satirist who portrayed the vices and follies of the aristocratic society of the London of his time.
35. The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. Helen Rowland
36. In "Second Hand Rose" — a tune from the 1921 Ziegfield Follies revue — the famous comedian Fanny Brice complained about how hard it was to find a suitable suitor.
37. 28 That is the fate of military follies, from the Great Wall of China to Hadrian's Wall: they are destined to a future of tea shops and tour guides.
38. Ranked in rows along the broad stairs at the Prada store in SoHo, they resembled a Ziegfeld Follies tableau, said a shopper who happened to be there when the incident occurred.
39. In this provocative, wide-ranging, and hard-hitting book, Agin argues from the center that we will pay a heavy price for the follies of people who consciously twist the public's understanding of the real world.
40. Hooey the Bookwormy parrot warns readers of this read's lip-flipping follies at the start of Oh Say Can You Say? but who can resist phrases like, "Skipper Zipp’s Clipper Ship Chip Chop Shop"?
41. Erdogan Antagonizes His ‘Arab Brothers’ Oct 24, 2020 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald Burak Bekdil is a brave and humorful Turkish journalist who dares, while living in Ankara, to highlight the political follies of President Erdogan in articles he writes for foreign websites.
42. 1909, Julia Frankau, Sebastian, page 30: And in her soul, she was lonely, because even Vanessa, to whose strength she clung, and on whose courage she leaned, knew nothing of what Jack Ashton's vices and follies, his disgraceful infidelities, and yet more disgraceful Amorousnesses had taught her, nothing of where