foolishness

Example Sentences

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Still, foolishness can sometimes bring good results; there are good results here, and some less than good.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

And what he sees, Page argues, is our own reflection — humanity, in all its fractured and flailing self-destructive foolishness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 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

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

He mentally pushed it away and had a sudden thought of his own foolishness.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen