Using "folly" in a sentence

Dimension it(Image credit: Bethesda)id Software demanded landmarks of Quake’s designers, and MachineGames delivers on that front too, twisting ancient geometry to new ends: a gaping, open-mouthed folly situated in a toxic swamp; a clifftop cathedral with a horned facade; a byzantine, windmill-powered factory that exudes pipes like Cthulhu does tentacles.
Source: TechRadar

Screenshot: The Pokémon Company / KotakuAdvertisementDownload the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online appI imagine there are some who would think it folly to start off with the app, rather than sitting down at a table with a starter deck and pile of counters.
Source: Kotaku

We will continue to make clear to any potential foe the folly of aggression against the United States at any time, or any place, in any theater, or any domain.
Source: Department of Defense

Worse, TJ would have had to put up with the radiant smiling, cheeky youngster reminding him of his folly at Wellington Lions and Hurricanes practices.
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It wasn’t just a folly whim on Dior’s part—soon after, 10 Egyptian companies gained permission to distribute his designs, helping to fuel the explosive business growth of the company in the 1950s.
Source: Vogue

It's only funny if it's not too tedious, and this production is occasionally stuck on the surface, enacting complaints rather than pinpointing the folly of them.
Source: Seven Days

Abu Laila’s determination to find what he hoped would be “a dignified life” illustrates the folly of using aerial surveillance for deterrence.
Source: Human Rights Watch

In 2011, Patagonia famously published a Black Friday ad in The New York Times headlined, “Don’t Buy This Jacket,” which supported conscious buying and greener products, explaining that “it’s folly to assume that a healthy economy can be based on buying and selling more and more things people don’t need.
Source: The New York Times

Where The Hex seemed to forever chase its tail in a folly of trying to get outside itself, Inscryption turns that absurdity into torment for the player.
Source: Nintendo Life

The clean sweep pointed out the folly of the majority of writers never getting behind a player who came to the plate more than 10,000 times and posted an .
Source: Sports Illustrated

Then the boys would see the folly of having a father, who hasn’t worked much in over 15 years as their role model.
Source: Economic Times

In fact, nestled in the middle of his 66-page collection of 32 poems from 2004, Breviary, is a favorite DeHaan poem I’ve enjoyed in December, poetry that somehow suggests acceptance and hope amid folly and cold: “Cold Villanelle Hell” I drive my car on streets of ice and snow As clouds appear and threaten storms of sleet.
Source: The Community Word

“The juxtaposition of rich and poor, the gender roles played out unto death (women first), the stoicism and nobility of a bygone age, the magnificence of the great ship matched in scale only by the folly of the men who drove her hell-bent through the darkness.
Source: Far Out Magazine

The Tiqqun (pronounced "Tycoon") is an Ark for humanity, or alternatively, a colossal Muskian folly built on the belief that finding a new planet to call home is a better idea than not shitting-up the atmosphere of the one we've spent millions of years evolving to thrive on (not that I have strong opinions on the subject).
Source: Android Police

Like what we've done with the place? (Disney+) Retrograde — National Geographic's documentary filmmaking arm captures the final nine months of America's two-decade folly in Afghanistan.
Source: Orlando Weekly

The economic and security fallout is privately making many Western leaders realise the folly of not preventing the invasion in the first place.
Source: Reuters UK

As we contemplate the theme of ‘War and Peace’ this year, we can be guided by Pope Francis’ words from ‘Against War: Building a Culture of Peace’: ‘And together we must commit ourselves to building a world that is more peaceful because it is more just, where peace triumphs, not the folly of war; justice, not the injustice of war; mutual forgiveness, not the hatred that divides and makes us see an enemy in the other, in those who are different from us.
Source: ND Newswire

Ironically, though, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority may step in to correct that liberal folly in a case that comes up for oral argument tomorrow.
Source: The American Prospect

Certainly compared to our history, technology gives the impression that progress is being made, but to what end?"The revelations received to write this book are backed up by scripture—scripture that shows that God created this universe and it is folly for man to believe he can control and/or change the purpose for which God established in the beginning.
Source: Benzinga

It’s only now that we’re starting to see the folly in this, and have begun looking at these big problems from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Source: Cosmos

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