How To Use follies In A Sentence
- After light's term, a term of cecity: the best hope for the future, that light will return and banish the follies, sophistries, delusions, which have accumulated in the darkness. Matthew Arnold
- He was 15 when he saw his first Broadway production, Follies, and 32 years later he can still recall every moment ‘scene by scene.’
- But leave to others these niceties, 'whether they are to be described as follies or absurdities: Gorgias
- In the harsh vanity of her conscious capableness and young strength she thought thus, half forgetting her own follies, and half excusing them on the ground of inexperience. The Old Wives' Tale
- Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
- She is not the woman for whose be-dazzlement I must advertise the value of my goods by sweating sonnets to her, or shivering serenades at her, or perpetuating follies for her. The Kempton-Wace Letters
- Pensioners are being rack-rated to pay for the follies of this foolish Government.
- It sounded a little dry for my liking — I was kind of imagining the sort of intellectualist discourse that made the Mundane SF movement sound awfully stuffy, with their pshawing at pulp “follies”. Ethics and Enthusiasm
- I would have been very sorry indeed to have missed the latest reincarnation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies.
- Most fantastic and, as it proved, most disastrous of all the follies of Versailles, was the creation of the free city of Danzig and what was called the Polish Corridor. The Shape of Things to Come
