How To Use Foolhardy In A Sentence
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You argue against yourself, brother, and I find it to be more than passingly foolhardy.
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It would be foolhardy to try to summarise two days of dense legal argument, much of it to do with definitions, legal boundaries and possible implications of certain wordings in the legislation.
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Sailing the Atlantic in such a tiny boat wasn't so much brave as foolhardy.
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Just for the record, I am not brave, perhaps a bit foolhardy, and just as scared of dying as the next man.
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The counsel will have a lot to say about your foolhardy irresponsible actions.
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In the light of this, one might be inclined to say that she is naïve or innocent or foolhardy.
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The swings were made out of the hardest substances known to man, and could decapitate anyone foolhardy enough to walk past.
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Therefore, if we are foolhardy enough to tax the desirable voluntary activities of individuals and firms, we should expect the ill effects to be numerous and serious.
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Although the guns were reached and many artillerymen sabered, this charge was extremely foolhardy.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
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Indeed, it's almost certainly no exaggeration to suggest that some foolhardy bar-stool all-rounder with a few too many stouts on board has already claimed in all sincerity to understand the complexities of the Duckworth-Lewis method.
Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning
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He takes bold if foolhardy chances, such as acting on Broadway.
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Remaking movies is always a risky endeavor, and remaking a classic can border on the foolhardy.
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Hackers frequently crack open accounts by simply running through a list of likely passwords, so choosing the obvious is foolhardy.
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Buying an airline seemed foolhardy and unnecessarily ostentatious: it affronted his sense of proportion.
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If you've been foolhardy enough to dismiss the series as lady-fodder, let FHM enlighten you.
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Perhaps the only thing more foolhardy is expecting to diminish interest in a game by publicly protesting it.
Zulu 1 Tactical Airsoft Simulation Puts Folly in Play
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Eric obediently hands over his wallet; the drunk friend subsides into a stupor; but Ike Marcus gets "chesty," confronting their assailants with the brave and foolhardy formula "Not tonight, my man.
In Priceland
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All attempts at definition seemed foolhardy.
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It is foolhardy to generalize about the political attitudes of 100 million peasants, except to say that they were far from being a cowed mass.
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Indeed, it's almost certainly no exaggeration to suggest that some foolhardy bar-stool all-rounder with a few too many stouts on board has already claimed in all sincerity to understand the complexities of the Duckworth-Lewis method.
Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning
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It is an extremely foolhardy thing to do and those responsible can expect to be dealt with robustly.
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Sailing the Atlantic in such a tiny boat wasn't so much brave as foolhardy.
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This is foolhardy in the extreme.
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When a shower stopped play with the second set one point old, it seemed foolhardy.
The Sun
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Sweepingly, postmeridian can recently pomatomus by an premedical foolhardy of the imperceptibility of ablaut bedrock and uncooked mellon.
Rational Review
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When he tested an early vaccine on himself, some described the act as foolhardy.
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It was foolhardy to go swimming alone.
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How many were merely foolhardy enough to get their hands too close to his mouth, and how many actually hurt him?
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Earl shouted, bravely standing up to his Superiors, something few Villagers had ever been foolhardy enough to do.
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In fact, Chia has only two words for anybody foolhardy enough to attempt it.
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There are compelling reasons why such a course of action would also be foolhardy and counterproductive in addition to hugely unlikely.
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His experiment with the kite was the best in foolhardy empirical research.
Behe: ID rescues Common Descent
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It was pleasant to have won her way so far in high places that her health of body and mind should be thus considered -- pleasant, less as personal gratification, than that it casually reflected a proof of her good judgment in a course which everybody among her kindred had condemned by calling a foolhardy undertaking.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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In the legal system, plods settled on a story and bent the facts to fit it, presenting those facts to magistrates in such a way that bail was deemed foolhardy and a trial in the Old Bailey followed by alengthy prison sentence was the only cure for what got called a social ill.
A Traitor to Memory
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This might almost be called foolhardy, inasmuch as when he arrived at Mainz, on April seventeenth, he knew little or nothing of the enemy's position, force, or plans.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)
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That includes digging a hole in the ice for those brave or foolhardy enough to take a very chilly dip.
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He wrote "a poem of the world," fell in love with an actress older than himself, became known as foolhardy for his wild escapades, and only slowly sobered down.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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The more foolhardy believe that if they are fated to meet a truck headlong at 100 kmph because they are driving on the wrong side of the road, then so be it.
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Sailing the Atlantic in such a tiny boat wasn't so much brave as foolhardy.
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A glance over the unprotected ledge was enough to scare the most foolhardy.
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Somewhere in the middle of this sequence I realised that this may be the only American movie since 2001 brave or foolhardy enough to take on – to conflate, even – the infinite and the intimate, the cosmic and the cellular, the extraordinary and the infra-ordinary, all in Malick's habitual spirit of big-hearted, symphonic grandeur, steeped in Whitman, Emerson and Yeats.
Is Terrence Malick assuming Stanley Kubrick's mantle?
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But this administration seems intent on doing it in the most reckless, foolhardy and impetuous manner possible.
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Thunder, lightning and hailstones battered the field at Carpvale on Sunday making long pole fishing a game for only the most foolhardy for long spells of the contest.
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It would be foolhardy to sail in weather like this.
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She wasn't foolhardy enough to take them all on by herself, that was for sure.
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We are digging in for a long fight to persuade government never again to embark on such a foolhardy and immoral venture.
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It was foolhardy to go swimming alone.
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To do it twice seems foolhardy.
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Regardless of their luck or ability, taking a voyage without accurate charts is, at the least, inadvisable, if not foolhardy.
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Yet again her insomniac tendencies won out as she knew that seeking sleep any time soon would be futile as well as foolhardy.
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This election result opens up the way for so many venturous, even foolhardy, coalition options.
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It is not fair on others to behave in a careless, foolhardy fashion.
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It would be foolhardy to try and predict the outcome of the talks at this stage.
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Acquisitions that only a few years ago appeared a tad foolhardy now seem super - smart, if expensive.
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When he tested an early vaccine on himself, some described the act as foolhardy.
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Sailing the Atlantic in such a tiny boat wasn't so much brave as foolhardy.
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And in a move that could be described as foolhardy or inspired, she has stayed faithful to the original material.
Culture | guardian.co.uk
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In the light of this, one might be inclined to say that she is naïve or innocent or foolhardy.
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You would be foolhardy in the extreme to make use of the phone number I entrusted to your keeping.
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Those who would be foolhardy enough to actually take any of this seriously would do better to steer clear of this film.
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Approaching demolition, various holes appeared in the brickwork of the upcast shaft allowing access to the foolhardy.
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I heard of one case here in England (unreported, the barrister was a friend-of-a-friend) where a lorry driver who went through a red light and hit a cyclist was held not to be liable because the lorry driver's barrister persuaded the judge that riding a bicycle through Manchester city centre was so recklessly foolhardy that the cyclist was "volens" as to the risk ...
Define That Term #207
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The enterprise seems foolhardy, and Stewart does not justify it beyond a vague feeling that he wants adventure.
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Without specialist financial advice, obtaining such a large amount; of credit could prove foolhardy in the extreme.
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Without specialist financial advice, obtaining such a large amount; of credit could prove foolhardy in the extreme.
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Woe betide, though, anyone who is foolhardy enough not to go through the process.
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While the more adventurous, or foolhardy, jumped over the waterfalls, I went for a quick paddle to soothe my aching feet.
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Small wonder if their son grew up with a taste for chivalrous pursuits, warlike deeds and sometimes foolhardy enterprise.
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They were very foolhardy to jump off the bus while it was still moving.
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With snow on the ground, ice cloaking favourite inland sites, and storms pounding the coasts, winter diving is only for the hardy in their drysuits - or the foolhardy in their wetsuits.
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She says what she honestly believes in a brave, even foolhardy manner.
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When a shower stopped play with the second set one point old, it seemed foolhardy.
The Sun
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Regiments travelled extensively to attack each other and a host of enemies who were foolhardy enough to provoke us.
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This is foolhardy in the extreme.
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He takes bold if foolhardy chances, such as acting on Broadway.
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I thought it foolhardy and told my colleague John so.
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Since the pint-sized Antipodean jumped the fence of Ramsay Street to conquer the world, many a soap starlet has been foolhardy enough to try and conquer the pop charts.
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Three years ago I was foolhardy enough to call the Turner's structure ‘exemplary’.
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The prince had become foolhardy and libertine.
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Most of them are on the road long enough not to fall into that foolhardy trap.
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He drives his Landrover (well, not actually his Landrover, but the Landrover of anyone foolhardy enough to lend him one) with what can only be described as pizzazz along Mauritian roads that were built with something less than pizzazz in mind.
Last Chance to See
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It would be foolhardy to fractionalise into small regional units where the required capacities are just non-existent.
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Government priority became a foolhardy, unworkable plan for identity cards rather than ground rebuilding.
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Last night I did what you will doubtless term very foolhardy extravagant and unwise.
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What Larry now did, as he got into the taxi, he would have called footless and foolhardy an hour before, and at any other hour his judgment might have restrained him.
Children of the Whirlwind
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The mines were dangerous, the mines were not to be left open as an invitation to any foolhardy visitor.
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That might seem a very foolhardy thing for them to do.
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This doesn't mean becoming foolhardy, though it helps to be fun and playful.
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British composer Colin Matthews is orchestrating all 24 of Debussy's piano preludes, a project which many will find either foolhardy or sacrilegious.
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Remaking movies is always a risky endeavor, and remaking a classic can border on the foolhardy.
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The signings can be described as bold or foolhardy, but which will it turn out to be?
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It is, if we are honest with ourselves, a bold, possibly even foolhardy undertaking.
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He did not want to love her, yet, for that would be foolhardy; but only iron disci - pline kept him from sliding into that emotion at a time like this.
Blue Adept
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The initial plan was to use a friend's urban jungle as a location but unfortunately at quite short notice this wasn't possible so I came up with an utterly foolhardy alternative - shoot the whole thing on bluescreen and leave myself to post-produce everything Sky Captain style for the rest of the weekend, so it's been a race against the clock, particularly with the render time required for every scene.
The Day Before The Day After Tomorrow
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It would be foolhardy to try and predict the outcome of the talks at this stage.
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You can break a leg on the prepared piste but to go off-piste is often considered foolhardy.
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It was a foolhardy pledge, particularly coming from a Chancellor who is normally an astute tactician.
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(Diane was not a timorous woman, but neither had her parents raised her to be foolhardy, and this was a remote location.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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It would be foolhardy to try and predict the outcome of the talks at this stage.
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Fortunately, none of my students had been foolhardy enough to follow me.
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foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker
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To do it twice seems foolhardy.
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All attempts at definition seemed foolhardy.
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Whoever their trailer was, he was both foolhardy and not very experienced at shadowing someone across a desert.
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It is an extremely foolhardy thing to do and those responsible can expect to be dealt with robustly.
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In a survey of the field nine years ago I was optimistic and foolhardy enough to believe that soon many of the parenteral vaccines would be administered via alternative routes.
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Call it foolhardy or brilliant or shocking or crazy.
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The mines were dangerous, the mines were not to be left open as an invitation to any foolhardy visitor.
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If you are foolhardy enough to plan a visit to The Bridge, however, there are a few things to bear in mind.
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Buying an airline seemed foolhardy and unnecessarily ostentatious: it affronted his sense of proportion.
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It was pleasant to have won her way so far in high places that her health of body and mind should be thus considered — pleasant, less as personal gratification, than that it casually reflected a proof of her good judgment in a course which everybody among her kindred had condemned by calling a foolhardy undertaking.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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To make such bold statements about any fast bowler is brave verging on foolhardy.
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But whatever risk there might be, or how strong my faith when my patrons were the subjects of what might be called foolhardy experiments, there came a time when this faith was to have the severest of all tests.
The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure
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As a tribute to these foolhardy souls, WebUrbanist has put together their top 5 mishaps in guerilla marketing.
Top 5 Guerilla Marketing Mishaps - The Consumerist
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And your foolhardy plans to extract Francoise will scarcely be aided by Prussian and French shells lacing the air.
ANTI-ICE
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That might seem a very foolhardy thing for them to do.
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He thought doing so would be "foolhardy" - until the second or third season, he said, when he realized he'd have the chance to end the series on his own terms.
Michael Smerconish: Mr. Monk and the End
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You would be foolhardy in the extreme to make use of the phone number I entrusted to your keeping.
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