fool's paradise

Example Sentences

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But see all of those fantasyland hues in a makeup tube and you might think only someone living in a fool's paradise would wear such lively colors on her face.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2015

We play a long game at K&L Gates, and managing to metrics expressed as averages is a fool’s paradise, emblematic of short-term thinking.

From Forbes • Aug. 13, 2014

For some these words reflect perfectly the unsustainable naivety that allowed this semi-arid plot of land to turn itself into a fool’s paradise of swimming pools and golf courses.

From Economist • Nov. 7, 2013

Were we in a fool’s paradise, an epoch of superb whisky that would end when the last spadeful of Scottish peat is dug up and flung into the furnaces?

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2013

A. Hopkins Parker was living in a fool’s paradise, wherever he was.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles