foolishness

Example Sentences

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They focused instead on human experience as it unfolds, moment by uncertain moment, capturing everyday foibles, errors and foolishness in the face of quotidian ruthlessness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

Mr. Clooney has never had a better role, and he burrows deeply into it with a self-interrogating combination of narcissism, foolishness, bravado and charisma.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

As Dickens prophetically reminds us, ours is hardly the first age of wisdom and of foolishness, the first epoch of belief and of incredulity.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

It’s difficult not to dwell on just how clownish our current reality has become while witnessing the absolute foolishness of this spectacle.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2025

“No one can feel worse than I do over the foolishness of their picketing the White House,” said Anna Howard Shaw, former president of NAWSA.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling