| 单词 | folly |
| 例句 | ‘It is by our own folly that the Enemy will defeat us,’ cried Boromir. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Is that all?” asked Jo, as Mrs. March looked silently at the downcast face of her pretty daughter, and could not find it in her heart to blame her little follies. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is most important? My magic or my music? My triumphs or my follies?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "Those who wish to ask pardon for their treasons may do so. We will have no more follies." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was an example of folly being as fatal as sin, for he meant no harm; he merely did not use any intelligence. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z This emotion, this pain, these follies also had to be experienced. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z His folly was not brought home to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, I knew it to be sheer folly to go running Dockside for the sake of a story. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Ned had played and lost, and his men had paid the price of his folly with their life's blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “What folly is this? Why don’t you come in?” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z “Even if it were true,” he said, “what you would do is folly. You must not approach the god’s altar to try to prove him a villain.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Ser Jorah she had left behind today, to guard her other dragons; the exile knight had been opposed to this folly from the start. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z To go inside, we must ride between two trees, an oak and a thorn, and then straight into what appears to be the stone wall of an abandoned folly. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I warned your king that this war of his was folly,” Dany reminded him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Because when I think about it, I was also built from delusional optimism and folly. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z But the queen in her knew that would be folly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He would have been saved if in his mad folly he had not cried out that he was one that the sea could not drown. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But these he did not learn from them, these child-like pleasures and follies; he only learned the unpleasant things from them which he despised. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z "Off with you, I'm too busy for folly. No doubt the maester has some work you can do." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “No—no,” he said slowly, “it would be folly to think of attacking them.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z She still thought the whole thing was folly of the worst kind. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “Badly,” said Hizdahr, “though perhaps they will surprise us. More like they will shriek and run about and try to climb out of the pit. That is what makes this a folly.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “And folly. A whole lot of folly. You can count on it.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “And we didn’t come to laugh. There will be those among the Tang people who will laugh—but now they will have to laugh at all of us, for we’ll share in your folly.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been paralyzed for almost two weeks now, waiting for word about her husband, but this was folly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The children of mighty men of Rome were never made to pay for their mistakes, for their follies. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “What folly! to bathe at such an hour in such heat!” exclaimed Mr. Pontellier. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Siddhartha thought yearningly and bitterly about his son, nursed his love and feeling of tenderness for him, let the pain gnaw at him, underwent all the follies of love. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z "It's an old man's folly, this ranging," he heard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The pace of Francis’ words might cause Maurice to find a reason for terminating the conversation before all the implications of Pauling’s folly could be hammered home. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I cannot say whether it contain wisdom or folly; nor what moral lies therein. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Each time I saw among the indifferent street-faces one that might be the spy sent to see me out of Erhenrang, and each time I thought of the folly of trying to go home. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z His rage, his folly, his madness, would be apparent to everyone. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not run from them; that would have been folly. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I will show them the folly of their ways! Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z From here, lit by starlight, I can see the maze below and the folly in the center. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z My eventual folly, played out in a bar in East New York, was that I came to know the list intimately as my own, as if I alone had authored it. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As Adams explained it, the French philosophes had invented the word, which became a central part of their utopian style of thinking and a major tenet in their school of folly.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z "It is not to be thought. Your Grace, whatever follies Renly has committed—" "Follies! I call them treasons." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Does he mean to mock me with this folly? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z What deep readings his modified sensibility might make of human suffering, of the self-destructive folly or sheer bad luck that drive men toward ill health! Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Onward then. Music and magic. Triumph and folly.Think now. What does our story need? What vital element is it lacking?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The follies and failures of Aegon the Unworthy did not concern him, but he was full of doubts and misgivings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “That would be folly. Our walls are taller and thicker than the walls of Astapor, and our defenders are more valiant. The Yunkai’i will not take this city easily.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But then, of course, I hasten to add, there are many valets who would never dream of indulging in this sort of folly - who are, in fact, professionals of the highest discernment. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “You must learn to answer for your own folly,” said Gwydion. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “I am sorry! It was the folly of an old man!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Anyway, he had this view of things—that most human activity was utter folly, his own included, and that his existence in the world made others nervous. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Alas, it is over and done with! Love is nothing but folly,” she cried. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Was there any kind of filth with which he had not besmirched himself, any sin and folly which he had not committed, any stain upon his soul for which he alone had not been responsible? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘It would be folly to throw lives away, I mean,’ he ended. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Therefore, it seems to me that everything that exists is good—death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was folly to have thought of going in the first place, let alone staying. Come over to Madame Antoine’s; you can rest there.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z No doubt the Lannisters had good reason for refusing to honor King Robert’s debts, but it was folly all the same. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z However, they would not in any case have lived much longer, for at their next stopping place, the Island of the Sun, the men acted with incredible folly. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z As he continued to hold forth in his swampy, East Texas drawl about the numerous follies of the welfare state, I got up and left the table to avoid humiliating myself further. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z If the gods had sent, these wolves, what folly had he done? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “You want them in the Gift, that’s your folly, but see they don’t wander off or I’ll send you back their heads. Winter is nigh, I want no more mouths to feed.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Immortality cannot temper the folly or frailty of youth. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I realize my mistake—but maybe it’s the kind of folly of which the captain approves. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It was for all of this that she was paying now, and it was this pride, hatred, bitterness, lust—this folly, this corruption—of which her son was heir. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “He came too late, though, and this folly... buying sellswords, loosing two dragons on the city ... that was madness and worse than madness. That was treason.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I told them this was folly, but none of them would listen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I was sensible even that night of the folly of my expectations—that notes on a page might restore her voice to me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Ser Lyn was a different sort of folly; lean and handsome, heir to an ancient but impoverished house, but vain, reckless, hot-tempered . . . and, it was whispered, notoriously un-interested in the intimate charms of women. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The Men of Númenor were settled far and wide on the shores and seaward regions of the Great Lands, but for the most part they fell into evils and follies. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “This is more than folly,” he blurted out, "I can’t permit you to stay out there all night. You must come in the house instantly." The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z “You still mean to ride to Hard- home. I see it on your face. Let them die, I said, yet you will persist in this mad folly. Do not deny it.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Hey—the whole freaking world was built from delusional optimism and folly. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z In this way, I would still be young when I committed the folly of publishing a silly idea. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z We were too tired to cross—that is to say, I was too tired—and it would be folly to get wet so near sundown. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But in his heart he knew such hope was folly. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Which is pure folly: ’tis surely God’s will that fish should rot in the water, but the beasts should rot on the land. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z It was true that he had never fully lost himself in another person to such an extent as to forget himself; he had never undergone the follies of love for another person. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z It had never crossed his mind that a daughter of his could commit such a monstrous folly. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I liked their readiness to act, but they seemed lost in folly, wandering in a fantasy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z First mate angry; said it was folly, and to yield to such foolish ideas would demoralise the men; said he would engage to keep them out of trouble with a handspike. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It would not have been so bad if the average individual were not torn between the enormity of the charge, if true, and its sensational folly, if false. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Their brother was surely one of them; to believe otherwise was folly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Lord Commander. Are you still intent on this .. .. folly?” finished Jon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “The dwarfs ride them. Delight the guests at your next feast or use them for a folly.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was impossible to find you, Frodo, in the wilderness, and it would have been folly to try with all the Nine at my heels. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He knew that the moment he allowed what his life meant to enter folly into his consciousness, he would either kill himself or someone else. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z "Must it be so? This flight was great folly, but will you not be merciful? These are your foster brothers we seek." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the meantime, his son let him commit his follies, let him strive, let him be humbled by his moods. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z "At his age, I committed a few follies of my own." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Moreover, Siddhartha’s sympathy and curiosity lay only with people, whose work, troubles, pleasures and follies were more unknown and remote from him than the moon. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But that would be shocking folly, as he well knew. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z "You know my feelings, Sansa. It seems I must arrange Robert's games and pretend to be honored for his sake. That does not mean I must subject my daughters to this folly." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When he opened them again it was evening and some of the sharp pain had abated—there were many dull aches—and the crash came back to him folly. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He begged after his former position, lamenting his folly and asking for forgiveness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z That one temporary decision became irreversible, because no shipyards remained to turn out ships that would prove the folly of that temporary decision, and to serve as a focus for rebuilding other shipyards. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She had a way of closing her eyes briefly when exasper-ated as if to reject for at least a second the existence of a folly that she was bound to recognize later. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was utter folly to have the players enact his father’s murder in the presence of Claudius himself. How is this revenge?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "He knows that your son's short reign has been a long parade of follies and disasters. That suggests that someone is giving Joffrey some very bad counsel." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z If it were not so, the wickedness of the powerful or the folly of the wise would long ago have sought to change what cannot be changed, and Equilibrium would fail. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z "If Lord Eddard were to confess his crime," she said at last, "we would know he had repented his folly." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Aye, but will they sing of your courage or my folly? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If the initial thrill of discovery had been allowed to wear off, surely he would have seen his folly, even naïve as he was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I cried for Sir Savien and Aloine, for love lost and found and lost again, at cruel fate and man’s folly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z By then Sansa was calm again, and ashamed for her folly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Folly, folly, his heart kept saying: conscious, gratuitous, suicidal folly! 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Kvothe, Defend yourself well at the University. Make me proud. Remember your father’s song. Be wary of folly. Your friend, Abenthy.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And of such follies: love, justice, friendship, glory. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I guess it’s safe to admit now that at its genesis and at several points along the way this whole undertaking seemed potentially an act of folly. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He felt shame before them and he told them he saw his own exceeding folly in allowing the loss of a mere girl to make him forget everything else. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been so long, it seemed folly to cling to the hope that Ben Stark was still alive, but Jon Snow was nothing if not stubborn. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I knew it was wrong when the muck left my hand — it was folly and cruelty. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “I never go anymore, but I did in the past. It seemed folly and time-wasting. Now it seems worse.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “It is still not too late to abandon this folly,” Gerris said, as they made their way down a foetid alley toward the old spice market. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “This is more than folly,” he blurted out. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z "That is why he sent me. To put an end to these follies and bring your son to heel." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "The sooner this folly is done with, the better I shall like it." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The London Times of Great Britain pointed out the folly of the United States in the face of serious international threats. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z It was not even a thing you could explain to anybody, why it was that everything was folly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Tonight we witness the spectacle of human folly and tragedy,” he said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She sighed, "i say it tastes like folly, but what would a dry maid know of such things?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Faced with the obvious folly of his original ambition, to walk five hundred miles to tidewater, he reconsidered his plans. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment, when the sound of Om reached Siddhartha’s ears, his slumbering soul suddenly awakened and he recognized the folly of his action. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Needless is Théoden’s demand, but it is useless to refuse. A king will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Constructed at enormous cost, this porous architectural folly consumed twenty thousand trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “They require intuition. Impulsiveness. Leaps of folly as often as leaps of faith. Do you catch my drift?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z For this, and folly, a bad end befell them. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as he spat out the words, Tyrion knew they were folly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It would be folly to throw away: what? The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In her first shame at her folly and lack of faith, Psyche fell on her knees and would have plunged the knife into her own breast if it had not fallen from her trembling hands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The battle was followed by the day’s first folly, a tilt between a pair of jousting dwarfs, presented by one of the Yunkish lords that Hizdahr had invited to the games. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Do you mean that in the whole world there’s only evil and folly?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If he loved you, he would come and carry you off at swordpoint, as Rhaegar carried off his northern girl, the girl in her insisted, but the queen knew that was folly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Adams concurred that the reunion in heaven would permit them to laugh at their human follies and foibles, though he would talk with Franklin only after the great man did proper penance for his sins. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z So various were the peoples of the Americas that continent-wide generalizations are risky to the point of folly. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "This is folly," the small grey man said while she dabbed at the wolf bites with a stinging ointment. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Oyez! Oyez! Witness the cleansing of the books of the Jews! Their error will rise on the wind like ashes! Let them see their folly and give themselves over to the mercy of Christ!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He understood how grief can twist a heart, how passions drive good men to folly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder's performance piece. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It said: “Kvothe, Defend yourself well at the University. Make me proud. Remember your father’s song. Be wary of folly. Your friend, Abenthy.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I halted, even considered going back to find it, but knew that would be folly. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It would have been folly to give up with victory so near—so men went to the polls that November and reelected Abraham Lincoln. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Had my play, like Hamlet’s that touched on the king’s murder, been a dangerous folly? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z All that listened there thought this a folly or a crazy courage in their young wizard, and with sullen faces they saw him go, expecting no news of him again. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The serious piece of folly had been to come back here in the first place, after buying the diary and without knowing whether the proprietor of the shop could be trusted. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It had been a rash act to come here at all, and sheer folly to arrive together; though it was true that they had come by different routes and only met on O’Brien’s doorstep. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z "Mummers use them in their follies, to give the heroes something to fight." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The folly of this action became apparent when 4-Wind and his brother escaped from confinement. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was one thing to have some fool boy spouting folly, but maesters were supposed to be wise. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Zanuck’s massive folly—in both style and structure—was created by an ideology now gone. A Forgotten D Day Film 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Journalists have invoked “the 5’clock follies,” the derided news conferences conducted by the U.S. military in Saigon during the Vietnam War. It’s 5 o’clock. Do you know where your president is? 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z As Ferdinand wrote in a letter in 1874: “Oddly enough they never admire each other’s purchases and while extolling their own discrimination, ridicule the follies committed by others.” A Sleek Home at British Museum for Ferdinand’s Gift 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z I like his attention to facial expressions while depicting humanity’s sins and follies. The 1,328-Page Novel That Captivated the Primatologist Frans de Waal 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z From its onset, An omen_ helps eliminate another folly of the debut: Maandig’s inability to project emotional depth through her vocals. Trent Reznor Experiments on How to Destroy Angels’ An Omen EP 2012-11-16T17:05:55Z And so the show — a labor of love that verges on folly — went on. Review: Byronic Heroism Can’t Save ‘Sardanapal’ in Berlin 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Almost every essay features awe-inspiring intellectual achievement and incomprehensible human suffering or folly. Essays That Make Sense of the Infinite and the Infinitesimal 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z But it’s an act of folly to expect reparations, in any sense, from a museum. The Smithsonian’s Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure and a Success 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z In the emotionally overwhelming conversations around what Dr. Ford alleges happened to her at the hands of Brett Kavanaugh, one enragingly pernicious argument going around has been the old trope about youthful folly. Brett Kavanaugh and the convenience of “youthful mistakes” 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Twenty-one architects and landscape architects made concept sketches for a theoretical summer house — an open-air structure sometimes known as a “folly.” Dreaming Up a Summer Idyll for Frederic Edwin Church 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z You will view an ornamental failing when you see People flinging one more volley: Deck the halls with bits of folly. Style Invitational Week 1310: The Year in Redo, Part 2 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z What if, instead of a high school tradition, the dress-up bit was part of a silly shtick for the town follies? Perspective | The right-wing drag panic is not about men wearing women’s clothing 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z There is a quiet factory, a sad hotel, a scattering of high-rise buildings set in a mountainous coastal landscape that seems to be biding its time until the people and their follies disappear. Movie Review: ?Attenberg? Is Athina Rachel Tsangari?s Debut Feature 2012-03-09T00:17:23Z The stories in “Trajectory” are a guided tour through the author’s preoccupations: the follies of academia. Richard Russo’s Latest Cast Includes Average Men and One Big Star 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z But an act of desperate folly nearly extinguishes Ghost’s prospects along with his evolving sense of belonging. Perspective | Audiobooks can help get you through forced family time. Here are picks for listening together. 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z My quest began, as these kinds of culinary follies do, with a craving. In Durban, South Africa, 13 Curry Stops in 5 Days 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z As Paul Fussell pointed out in The New York Times Book Review, “Just as Mr. Wolfe hates human vices and follies, he loves their opposites — manifestations of competence, courage and skill.” Tom Wolfe Kept a Close, Comical and Astonished Eye on America 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z “It’s not only a farce,” Mr. Sachs said, “it’s a tragedy, and the relationship between all those people is very real. We recognize the follies in ourselves. It’s exaggerated, but true to life.” Andrew Sachs, who played hapless waiter Manuel on ‘Fawlty Towers,’ dies at 86 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Apart from specific field trips--to old Hollywood places like Musso and Frank's, say, or ridiculous contemporary follies like the Standard Hotel--I just saw a lot of brown stucco and exhausted foliage. Mimi Lipson on her debut collection, 'The Cloud of Unknowing' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Growing up in the ’80s, it had been, apparently, a rite of passage, checking a box on a to-do list of your parents’ youthful follies. Acid redux: My long, strange, cancer-fighting trip back to tripping 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Yes, he had his demons and was prone to folly. Downton Abbey recap: series five, episode five – a sedate echo of previous plots 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Celebrity objectors It is not enough for you to be famous; the person objecting to your architectural folly must also be famous. Pools, ponds and 40ft aquariums: planning disputes of the stars 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Helpfully, Rihanna recently devised her own metaphor for this: the "777" tour, an airborne promotional folly in which she played seven cities in seven countries over seven days. Tramlines, Devendra Banhart, Rihanna: this week's new live music 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z The folly of this new regulation became apparent in the 2011 World Championships. Rebecca Soni’s game-changing record 2012-08-03T11:45:00Z It champions reason over folly, truth over lies. Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert step up: Donald Trump made “The Daily Show” and out-of-character Colbert relevant again 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z But it proves once and for all the folly of this kind of nostalgia. The George Awakens 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z It’s folly to believe you can jump-start aging except in the most marginal way. No-Sweat Answers to Some Basic Wine Questions 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z All political acts take place under the judgment of history, which reveals “the limits of all human striving” and the futility, even the folly, of most human undertakings, especially of politics. A Few Theories about Why James Comey Might Call Himself “Reinhold Niebuhr” on Twitter 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Scheduling new installments of the “Masterpiece” epic as time-slot competition to the most popular show on the planet is pure folly; then again, something has to air at 9 p.m. A dream of time gone by: How PBS's "Les Misérables" helps process the tragedy of the Notre Dame fire 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z The narrator admires how “Artemisia knew herself so well and I, at 21, did not, had not yet settled on the governing narrative of my life. Had not yet realized the folly of governing narratives.” How Much Power Do Women Want? A Novel Circles the Question 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z An award-winning Mexican writer, Ms. Nettel creates marvelous parallels between the sorrows and follies of her human characters and the creatures they live with — whether as pets or pests. ‘The Stories of Jane Gardam,’ and More 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z They spoke warmly about the richness of his characters and his writerly compassion for their follies and absurdities “They’re as slippery as we are as human beings.” Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh, in Love and Battle 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z "You can go and visit the wreck and go and see this monument to human folly." Titanic's legacy: A fascination with disasters 2012-03-31T22:31:05Z She and her sisters performed follies basically for King Triton’s entertainment. ‘The Little Mermaid’ Review: The Renovations Are Only Skin Deep 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z CBS would love to have another “How I Met Your Mother,” a jovial and nostalgia-tinged sitcom with a built-in sense of both youthful folly and warm wisdom. Review: CBS’s ‘Me, Myself & I’ Doesn’t Know Itself Yet 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Seeing the folly of the argument, Eisenhower held fast against their use. 'Eisenhower: The White House Years': a most accomplished president 2011-11-09T23:04:08Z But they can’t transcend a movie that focuses on the parents – time that inevitably sympathizes with their desperation even as it’s supposedly mining their folly for entertainment. Why is the college admissions scandal movie so boring? 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z But Think! was the one I’d really thrown myself into, and the folly of that was now becoming apparent. Alan Partridge on Noel Edmonds – ‘He is a total wazzock and I cannot stand him’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Taking place largely in a grim and hulking Dublin tenement, it offers no illusions of heroism, and plenty of human folly. Review: ‘The Plough and the Stars,’ War and Folly in a Dublin Tenement 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Andrew Dice Clay, on the other hand, demonstrated the folly of trying to say that anything — even something as small as the availability of snacks — was Mr. Trump’s fault. Vanity Cabinet: Trump Throws Himself a TV Pep Talk 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Still, it has a certain grandeur, if ultimately it's an inspiritingly ambitious folly. Cloud Atlas – review 2013-02-24T00:06:09Z Hochschild subscribes to the earlier, bleaker view of the war as one of utter folly. Narrative history of WWI focuses on war resisters 2011-05-02T11:11:09Z By 1930, the car had already evolved from a folly affordable only to the wealthy to something broadly pervasive throughout modern industrialized society. Review | Some cars are more seductive than art. Should they be included in art museums? 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z It is a movie about the lure and folly of greatness that comes as close as anything I’ve seen recently to being a great movie. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z This time they got lucky, largely because Russia suffered a perfect storm of ill fortune and colossal folly. Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Written for young actors, the text has been “freely adapted” here by H. Patrikas Zakshevskis to give older performers an equal opportunity to demonstrate folly in love. 'The Guardsman' at NoHo Arts Center 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z My husband never complained, mustering interest in herbaceous borders and follies. Modern Love: Competing With Another Woman, or at Least a Voice 2012-09-28T18:17:37Z She was such a sure thing In the year Nineteen Eleven Titanic we’ll raise her to the surface one day, and Prove to ourselves she ne’er knew, folly under heav’n. Disastrous Poetry and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z That was the message of The Birdcage, scripted by May from the French comedy La cage aux follies. The Sublime Mike Nichols 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Laid out in a grid soon after the light bulbs and plaster follies were pulverized, it adjoins Delaware Park, designed by the eminent landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Echoes of an Exposition, and an Assassination 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Or, as Mac Davis concluded in his cautionary song about the folly of trying to escape the Lone Star State, “Happiness is Lubbock, Texas, growing nearer and dearer.” An Unconventional History of Texas, From a Writer With the State in His Veins 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z One has only to think of the "little books" that continue to be loved and read and treasured for their quietly observant knowledge of human folly, that ever-interesting topic. Paul Bailey: I prefer humble prizes 2012-07-13T21:55:14Z This was only one of many strange and beautiful follies and re-creations that litter the countryside. In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z Now, some might consider it folly to step into the midst of such a debate. Where to Eat at the South's Best Fried Chicken Restaurants 2010-05-03T19:05:00Z Accordingly, the family in this version is torn apart by conflict and unhappiness, seemingly doomed to enact the stories of folly that are woven so deeply into the fabric of mythology. Theater Review: ?Myths and Hymns,? Directed by Elizabeth Lucas 2012-02-08T03:00:00Z Yes, it’s good that the zoo finally realized the folly of keeping large, sentient mammals in captivity in a northerly climate. Zoo to elephant activists: You wanted them moved, right? 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z He sits at his piano, singing slow, whispery, post-nuclear homilies and observations of man’s folly, and almost dares you to ignore him. Review: Bill Fay’s ‘Who Is the Sender?’ Harks Back to Another Time 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z On the other, it was a political folly paid for by taxpayers – most of whom would never be able to afford the exorbitant fares – and a polluting menace. The Silence 2010-07-12T05:45:00Z Marville was clearly hired to market its pleasures to the bourgeoisie, and, in a sense, he did just that, highlighting lush grottoes, English-style garden follies and meandering paths. Art Review: ‘Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris’ Debuts at the Met 2014-01-31T00:01:15Z There is plenty of folly on offer here, but Becky is striving to marry for money because that is her only means to escape the fate of her low birth. Amazon’s New “Vanity Fair” Turns Becky Sharp Into an Endearing, Plucky Go-Getter 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Stroll the property’s 108 acres and get lost in romantic woodlands dotted with follies and grottos. | Room With a View 2013-05-10T22:52:03Z “Under the Silver Lake” is less a cinematic folly than a category mistake, taking the sterility of its own imaginative conceits for a metaphysical condition. ‘Under the Silver Lake’ Review: Andrew Garfield Gets Lost in a Haze of Pop-Culture Allusions 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z From airplanes we get aerial views akin to that of Tiepolo’s gods, goddesses and personifications of virtue and vice surveying the follies of mere mortals below. Bruce Conner, parsing the nuclear age 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z For the ancient Greeks, hubris was the folly of a leader who through excessive self-confidence challenged the gods. Their own worst enemy 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The tweet Lee shared of the July incident went viral, with many sharing their own college follies. Falling meatball from sandwich causes college student to fail exam, she claims on Twitter 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z The folly is a thing in motion: it is about the enjoyment of actions, with other people, from the building to the events. Folly for a Flyover 2011-07-09T23:05:57Z To ignore the follies of a team you might favor produces the sort of torturous bad reasoning purveyed by radio pundits and cable news hosts, just as partisanship weakens comedy. Nobody punctures blowhards better than Jon Stewart on 'The Daily Show' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Instead, the weariness coming from the show seems to be more emotional and civic-minded—an expression of shared uncertainty, a common lament about the absurd pace of the new Administration’s outrages and follies. “Saturday Night Live” and the Limits of Trump Mockery 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z And somehow that’s under threat again, out of sheer madness and folly and political gain. 'The stupidest thing humanity ever did to itself': Sam Mendes and Colin Firth on 1917 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z He added: “I had visions of ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ — that this was going to become a legendary folly.” How Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon Straightened Out ‘Full Circle’ 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Recently I was talking to a woman nearing 80, and with no small hint of smugness we joked about the follies of youth. Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z Without him, Ralph thinks, Undine would be “easy prey to the powers of folly.” What Edith Wharton Knew, a Century Ago, About Women and Fame in America 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z In the spoken and sung texts delivered by Ms. Anderson, there were welcome flashes of humor and astute observations on human follies, dreams and Dutch karaoke bars. Kronos Quartet Plays Laurie Anderson’s ‘Landfall’ at BAM 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z But, hey, it’s the season for holly and folly, and only the grinch within us wants to be counting calories and cash right now. Brad’s Swingside Cafe: Warming Italian fare in Fremont 2013-12-05T20:49:00Z That’s not to say that the penniless of Rosewater are depicted with a great degree of compassionate seriousness; Vonnegut’s critique of man’s follies and iniquities ranges up and down the social scale. Review: A Vonnegut Madman Tangled in Thickets of Dark Satire 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Sticking to its original vision, Disney had declined to tweak these frat-house follies. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z It captures much of the delight, confusion, folly and romance of life, in 35mm. Life in chapters in ‘The Worst Person in the World’ 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z These are complex games, with the suggestion that perhaps it’s folly to believe that drawing back the curtain is akin to discovering the truth. At the Met, the artistic riches of India’s Deccan Plateau 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Toward the end of their relationship, Mark — discreetly called M in the book — falls for another man, and Mr. Lisicky, in a gesture of either supreme expansiveness or folly, allows his husband to pursue him. Review: In ‘The Narrow Door,’ Paul Lisicky Opens a Window on Friendship 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Look, this could be a folly, but if you're really going do this, you owe it to yourself to completely commit. Danny DeVito: I still miss my father 2012-06-15T23:05:18Z Last September, he took on what seemed to be a folly: playing the suites outdoors, in front of more than 17,000 people in Los Angeles. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z There is also a weird thematic discordance when you consider that “Thrones” spent eight seasons showing us the destructive folly of cyclical power struggles, ultimately building to a resolution designed to leave all that behind. ‘House of the Dragon’ Premiere: Another Game of Thrones 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z From which I could only conclude that the definitions of mental illness are different for the aristocracy, as both Herrenchiemsee and Neuschwanstein castle were follies in both senses of the word. Luther; The Fairytale Castles of King Ludwig II – TV review 2013-07-03T05:00:05Z Set at a reunion of faded showgirls of a once-famous follies revue, the musical includes standards like “I’m Still Here” and “Losing My Mind.” ArtsBeat: 'Follies' Is Coming to Broadway This Summer 2011-06-15T20:00:41Z What is pleasing about these three different things, the memorial, the folly and the fountain, is that they all work. Folly for a Flyover 2011-07-09T23:05:57Z Here, the eponymous architect meets people wishing to restore architectural gems or, as in this series opener, restore the facade of a derelict 18th-century gothic folly and bolt a modern extension on. The Great Offices of State | Lizzie and Sarah | Wonders of the Solar System | Jersey Shore and more | Watch this at the weekend 2010-03-20T06:45:00Z For example: “Doing the first thing that comes into your mind, right now, is folly.” Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and all: have we reached ‘peak asshole’? 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z The select ladies at the top of the social structure in “Game of Thrones” have shown the lasting effects of misogynistic folly since the start of the series, and even in its pre-history. Taking heed of the women on “Game of Thrones” 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z For Mr. Younger, the inevitability of financial folly — and real bankers’ odd veneration of ostensibly evil characters like Gekko, an irony he highlighted in “Boiler Room” — has turned him sour. Arts & Leisure: ?Margin Call,? From J. C. Chandor, Looks at Wall Street 2011-10-12T11:01:11Z Slated for destruction immediately after the event, this monument could hardly be a more obvious symbol of the folly of trying to hold on to the past. Winning back the girl he left behind at 'The Pavilion' 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The moment he meets her father, “The Judge,” he realizes the folly of his plan. Meet the ‘Peeples’ in formulaic, funny comedy 2013-05-09T22:25:13Z Belshazzar reflects as much upon human folly as on faith, while its treatment of war and empire in what is now Iraq strikes a sombrely contemporary chord. Belshazzar – review 2012-12-14T17:32:12Z Towering folly … residential developers are bound to cash in. Home truths: how the housing market is threatening affordable workspaces 2013-01-28T16:47:51Z I don’t fully agree with that observation, but to dismiss it entirely would be folly. On the Touchy Subject of Class in America 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The Tudor roots of the main house inspired the look of the folly: a timbered structure with a steep roof and nestled-in windows. Backyard Escape: English Garden Folly 2011-07-13T17:50:12.750Z “It is very easy to think small . . . if you are going to do something, don’t stop halfway . . . ” reads an MGM newspaper ad, conflating the real estate developer’s mantra with the gambler’s folly. MGM’s $1.4 billion casino is a cruise ship to nowhere 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The bureaucrats and scientists who have tried to warn against the folly of treating every wildfire like a mortal foe have discovered their message is a nonstarter. Are the American West’s Wildfires Inevitable? 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Later, when your teenager starts driving you crazy, tell him, “I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else.” ‘Shakespeare’s Guide to Parenting’: Wry advice from the Bard 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Another touching song, featuring one of Mr. Malloy’s most fetching melodies, finds Ms. Ashford’s Sonya vowing to save her beloved cousin from her own folly, even if it means betraying her confidence. Theater Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812’ at Kazino 2013-05-17T02:00:12Z Mr. Rudel recounts his 22 years as City Opera’s director, not just the triumphs and adventures, but also the follies and backstage contretemps. Critic’s Notebook: City Opera Might Do Best at City Center 2013-04-26T23:56:25Z Monk is inclined to be magnanimous about this folly. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z And thank goodness there is still a place for potty humor and weird sex jokes and unflinching forays into human want and folly. Alt comics artists take us to our rough edges 2014-03-12T22:48:22Z Now, whether “The Changing Light at Sandover” is an “effective” poem or an extravagant folly is open for debate. About That Ouija Board: How Langdon Hammer Summoned a Poet’s Spirit 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z But his successors succumbed to hubris and folly. Yearning for an Earlier Era of American Diplomacy 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z What Sir William Would Do in Syria Intervention in Syria without a political plan for peace is folly. 20 Directors to Watch 2013-09-05T14:14:57Z And I’m not exposing myself to danger, and by extension exposing others to danger, because of the folly of vanity! Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Forget the Beatles. I’ve got a real moptop. 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The viselike setting is spatially difficult, yet culturally rich in opportunities to comment on the treasure house — with its power, prestige, human vanity and folly — just beyond. Rocks Not So Solid on the Met’s Face 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z As he confesses to Midge, whom he always calls Speed, “There is very little folly I have missed out on in my life.” Review | ‘True Grit’ is a modern classic, but it’s not the only great work by Charles Portis 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z He marvels that cats are “arch-realists” who know when not to bother: “Faced with human folly, they simply walk away.” Want the Good Life? This Philosopher Suggests Learning From Cats 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The book's annual audit anatomised their folly in meticulous detail. One Day: a waste of a good tome 2011-08-24T09:51:15Z But to implement overarching public policy when good science raises serious concerns is to engage in public folly. Is salt really so bad for you? 2013-05-27T18:00:00Z Myanmar could well end up learning the follies of micromanagement the hard way. All change, or not 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z And of course you find it in Aristotle, who said that to live without a goal in life is a mark of much folly. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z In the future all of us “will look on our present hairdo as enormous folly.” Dance Review: Jennifer Lacey in ?Gattica? for American Realness - Review 2012-01-15T23:13:51Z At the same time, he is completely serious, as he has always been, about the folly of our machinations, political or otherwise. Milan Kundera's 'Festival of Insignificance' on being and smallness 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Even the 7-year-old me would have known that trying to see such a vast country in 18 days was folly. In Indonesia, Many Islands and Many Faces 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z It’s a mess, a folly covered in mirrored tiles, but somehow it’s a beautiful and humane one. Larry Kramer Leaves No Score Unsettled in an Epic’s Finale 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Probably Strauss's most colourfully literal and straightforwardly comical work, it nonetheless skewers the underlying message of Cervantes' novel, namely that something beautiful and noble can underlie man's most extravagant follies. Mørk/LPO/Nézet-Seguin – review 2012-11-22T17:44:12Z But it would be folly to visit Cremona and not revel in its music heritage. There’s More to Cremona Than Violins 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z I guess it's dangerous to compliment the show for playing on its past narrative folly, but it's a neat trick, one that made Bobby's death even more painful than it already was. 'Sons of Anarchy' recap: 'What A Piece Of Work Is Man' - good soldier 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z “The brand has a youthful folly, a crude sense of pop weirdness — detractors claim its fraudulence — unsuitable for a major house,” K. Austin Collins wrote for Vanity Fair. Virgil Abloh, Vuitton designer and style visionary, dies at 41 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z A short walk on a level gravel trail leads to the tunnels, where the engineer’s folly is a traveler’s gain. B.C.’s scenic Fraser Canyon has hikes, tunnels, tram — and a great river 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Two sidekicks play like spokespeople for opposite poles of human nature, and the princess, hilarious amid armor-clad misadventures, is like the changeless soul of human folly. “Disenchantment,” Reviewed: Matt Groening Makes the Most of Medieval Slapstick Pestilence 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z What we end up with isn’t just a nutty and inventive depiction Gartner’s home base but a piercing exploration of human ethics, ambition and folly. ‘Better Living Through Plastic Explosives’: a gleefully twisted take on Vancouver, B.C. 2013-01-25T00:50:30Z He rolled his eyes at my follies but didn’t discount me for them. Driving the Stake Through Emotional Vampires 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z "She wanted to … mean so much to us," one woman says, as if that were folly; "Indeed," another adds. Edith Pearlman has a fine eye for the intimate in 'Honeydew' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z “The history of bread is full of human folly, which is great,” he said. Using Science and History to Unlock the Secrets of Bread 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z It was also a royal folly, as in the hamlet of rustic buildings attached to Versailles for the amusement of Marie Antoinette. Art Review: At Morgan Library, Glories of Nature, Tamed by Man 2010-06-03T21:31:00Z Life revolves around mares and stallions in the film’s windswept terrain, but the animals’ orblike eyes direct us to the many follies of their owners, who are driven by petty desires and, occasionally, courage. Review: In ‘Of Horses and Men,’ the Animals Often Walk on Two Legs 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z To Tuchman, folly begins with the most fundamental of things: an outsize and self-destructive will to power. Barbara W. Tuchman, Folly and the Stream of History 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z ROMEO: Soft, speak not of human follies when Cupid’s bow aims true. Shakespeare’s Deleted Scenes 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z It was through this cast of characters that many people first got aestheticism's measure in terms of its follies and pretentiousness. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z In 2020, we should expect the inverted reality, where comedians play it straight and point out political folly better and more often than the straight news, to only become even more obvious. 5 ways the 2020 election will be shaped by late night comedy 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Once the red carpet follies were over, the war correspondent Christiane Amanpour introduced the film, calling it “remarkable and courageous” while warning that there was “no way to sugarcoat” the atrocities it portrays. Angelina Jolie?s First Directing Effort Is Serious 2011-12-06T23:28:47Z In “Plantsmanship as Competitive Sport,” our region’s two most opinionated plant geeks will square off over their favorite flora in an event described by Hinkley as “an evening of elucidation and folly.” NW plant geeks Dan Hinkley and Jim Fox square off, and other garden news 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z To address a letter to a city of any kind is folly. Lost in China 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z After “Last Tango in Paris,” Bernardo Bertolucci, who died in November, made what is either the most misguided folly or the least appreciated epic of 1970s cinema. 5 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z While the battle against superstitious folly does indeed span generations, that also means the odds against getting the last word are forbidding, to put it mildly. Hitchens faces his mortality 2012-09-04T17:19:00Z Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the family moved to the Glen, a mammoth Gothic folly implanted in a deep valley near Peebles, in the Scottish Borders. Emma Tennant, Who Wrote Beyond the Fringe of Realism, Dies at 79 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z The film glimpses European fractures and follies through a personal story that remains as schematic and impersonal as a position paper. A Stilted Vision of a Declining Europe in “Toni Erdmann” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The songs deliver indictments of human folly with measured calm. On ‘ForeverAndEverNoMore,’ Brian Eno Sings for the End of the World 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z There's a way of seeing the absurdity of all of this folly of life. Michael Showalter on American con artists: "We really are screwed if there's no such thing as truth" 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z He draws these funny little buildings, almost like follies, in these junctions and ends. David Adjaye on Designing a Museum That Speaks a Different Language 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Lari Pittman’s “Mood Books,” on view at the Huntington’s museum, are giant follies. What to see in L.A. galleries: An ode to a black sci-fi trailblazer and Lari Pittman 'Mood Books' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z DGC pressed 46,251 copies for the initial run, and some at the label thought that figure was a folly for an unproven band. That magic moment 30 years ago when Nirvana and ‘Nevermind’ forever changed Seattle 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z After the oratorio’s first part, devoted to the prophecy of redemption, and the second, dealing with suffering, sacrifice and folly, the third part is about victory over death and war. In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z It is folly to think that five meals could even begin to introduce you to the vast culinary riches of New York City. Hey, Mr. Critic: New York at First Bite: Oh, the Places You?ll Go 2011-07-28T20:30:08Z A career-long oscillation between brilliance and folly, strategic self-consciousness and wacky impulsiveness, has made Mr. West hip-hop’s most visible and polarizing figure. Music Review: ‘Yeezus,’ Kanye West’s Raw and Jolting New Album 2013-06-16T18:25:47Z Kim somehow maintains a deadpan amusement at the follies of carnal desire. ‘Moebius’: a twisted, grotesque comedy 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The Pulitzer, which honoured the ageing William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway for the grandiose and simplistic follies of their maturity, has assumed the character of a national institution. Paul Bailey: I prefer humble prizes 2012-07-13T21:55:14Z For many, Streep’s speech was a microcosm of the follies of Hollywood, where the rich, beautiful elite are seen as out of touch with blue-collar Middle America. The worst of the backlash: Meryl Streep’s speech is everything that is wrong with Hollywood and liberals, according to conservatives 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Whatever Marnie’s follies might be in her own romantic and artistic life, she has some good, honest advice for heartbroken Hannah: 'Girls' Recap: Adam, an Example of How Selfish Young Men Speak When They've Done Wrong 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z There is little doubt that the comedians will continue to expose the hubris, folly and hypocrisy of Trump, but that won’t be all. 5 ways the 2020 election will be shaped by late night comedy 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Travel pillows compound the folly by enveloping the neck with a felt boa constrictor. We’re in the golden age of travel pillows. Too bad we hate them all. - The Washington Post 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Not necessarily catharsis — although after three brutal episodes, “The Leftovers” could benefit from a bit of that — but at least some new insight, artistic flourish, or fresh take on human folly. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Into the Dark, With a Cliche or Two 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Friends thought my relationship with him was folly, a certain train wreck; for a newly single woman who’d been stung by betrayal, nothing good could come from a periodic liaison with a married man. Modern Love: Modern Love: Our Way of Saying Goodbye 2010-05-28T23:08:00Z A psychologist would surely say that he is punishing her for his own folly in having been attracted to her in the first place. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z For Mr. Andrews imagining a role that would even last beyond two years seemed like folly. George Lee Andrews to Leave ?Phantom? After 23 Years 2011-08-31T22:05:50Z The folly of making awards predictions about films not yet seen is indicated in its absence from nominations lists – even at the Golden Globes, which has special categories for comedy/musicals. Tangled's revamped princess tale dethrones The King's Speech 2011-02-01T13:39:35Z It's an artistic gesture aimed to show politicians and society the follies of excess that led to the financial crisis. Artist decorates the Louvre's iconic pyramid 2013-04-24T16:00:11Z They’re the next-door versions of those cosmetically perfect pop and movie stars whose public vanities and follies we savor with such glee. Review: ‘Mean Girls’ Sets the Perils of Being Popular to Song 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Inside “The Daily Show” sausage factory, Stewart was determined to turn arguments about the follies of government into piercing comedy. Moments of Zen (and rage) behind ‘The Daily Show’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z “The Noble Hustle” is really a social satire, one that uses gambling’s luck-based economy to explore ambition and folly, and the folly of ambition. ‘The Noble Hustle’: bets and bluffs in a high-stakes game 2014-05-08T22:06:01Z Writing in The New York Times in November, Manohla Dargis called the film an “apocalyptic folly” that “cracks the planet like a nut, laying its every creeping thing to inevitable tedious waste.” DVDs: Another Trippy Rabbit Hole 2010-02-27T03:01:00Z Here, he crafts a film with a narrower scope, which nevertheless aims high in its determination to expose the folly of prejudice, and the universal empathy of all human beings. London River: an outsider's journey to the heart of a very London tragedy 2010-07-13T15:03:00Z Groundlings in the days of Shakespeare felt free to add their commentary on the follies of his kings and queens. Theater Talkback: From Seat to Stage 2010-10-07T16:15:00Z Plus, of course, the odd futuristic folly, such as a contraption best described as a Penny Farthing Nano. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 19-23 November 2012-11-19T07:00:00Z And while I still dreamed of those horizons and grasslands, I wondered whether my longing to carry on the family legacy was folly. Young Farmers Conference at Stone Barns Center 2013-01-03T22:25:03Z “Wiener-Dog” is held together by its canine title character, whose animal dignity provides silent commentary on human folly. Review: ‘Wiener-Dog,’ the Tail That Wags Through a Few Bitter Lives 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z There, she remains as clownish and self-deprecating as ever, a droll observer of human folly and every viewer’s best friend. Television: Ellen DeGeneres, ?American Idol? and the Power of Niceness 2010-04-04T02:34:00Z Typically the role of the satirist is to call out the flaws in the system, to speak truth to power in a witty way, to expose hypocrisy, and to mock hubris and folly. Jon Stewart, defender of American values: How comedians are redefining patriotism now 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z “It’s folly,” I said, all the while mesmerized and hoping my words were having no effect. She Slipped Past My Age Filter 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z For one thing, it's admirably democratic – where else could you see the Guangzhou Opera House, designed by Zaha Hadid, running against a wooden folly under a flyover in Hackney? What are the best Designs of the Year? 2012-02-08T14:35:00Z "It would be a folly to try and write better things than our best at this age," nodded Idle. Jagger helps launch Python gigs 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z To West, the U.S. strategy of nation-building, of winning hearts and minds and trying to buck up the Afghan government, is folly. A gripping 'One Million Steps' examines Marines in Afghanistan 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z He concedes his work may be folly: “Given time, neurologists may well establish a firm connection between mental illness and the writing of books about the Royal Family.” Review | Princess Margaret’s beauty and arrogance are on parade in ‘Ninety-Nine Glimpses’ 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z “No battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” John Malkovich: ‘I am a constant source of embarrassment to myself’ 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z He was “emotionally accessible, often soft, and possessed of the ability to laugh at the world’s folly and at himself.” Saul Bellow’s Three Sons Remember Him 2013-05-03T22:50:33Z He says he does not want them to become "private follies". Serpentine's star pavilions 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z Project Nim is a study in hippy folly: a chronicle of an experiment in 70s New York to raise a chimp as a child – and its fallout. Monkey business: primates on film 2011-08-03T20:00:00Z This she does magnificently, reminding us that human folly and fate are often the same thing. 'Song of Achilles': The love story behind Homer's epic tale of war 2012-04-25T20:12:07Z The folly of being unfaithful is outlined by Glasgow indie types Camera Obscura in the lovely Tears for Affairs, from 2006's Let's Get Out of This Country. Readers recommend: songs about fools ? results 2011-08-11T14:33:14Z An all-female theater company might be counted on to lay bare men’s flaws and follies onstage, but at Takarazuka the approach is gentler. From Japan, a ‘Chicago’ You Probably Haven’t Seen 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z His fashion sense was often chided as folly. The Marvelous Mr. Mackie 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z As I reread "Jane Eyre" last week, I realized my folly. Jane Ayre, we hardly knew you 2011-03-11T16:36:00Z Once you spot the tree, an architectural folly is revealed to embody an ethical gesture: a rebuke to a city — a nation — that has historically plowed nature under in the devouring interest of “development.” Fraught and Fabulous: Art That Shows a Passion for Democracy 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z But in the magazine was a preview for a TV series called the rock follies. 30 years later, Buzzcocks still in a punk state of mind 2010-06-01T19:49:00Z But the film feels both hermetic and declarative, and it’s folly to constantly remind a viewer of Fassbinder’s impossible-to-replicate alchemy of color, lighting, angles and passion. ‘Enfant Terrible’ Review: I Can Sleep When I’m Dead 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Considering these queens' love of metallics of all varieties, it’s amazing RuPaul Charles hasn’t sent his “girls” on tour for some kind of crazy drag version of a season follies. Smart Watch: Emmy winner “Mrs. Maisel” is still marvelous in a dazzling season 2 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z The eccentric folly and glory of Miss Helen’s house isn’t all that evident here. | 'The Road to Mecca' : ?Road to Mecca? at American Airlines Theater - Review 2012-01-18T03:01:07Z On the right-wing side, the presence of the sharks is seen as a classic example of the folly of liberal do-gooding and the boomerang absurdities of “reform.” The Summer of Shark Politics on Cape Cod 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Rigo then took on another job that seemed folly to Wall Street and many Starbucks consumers: helping the coffee giant retool its baked goods, which were notoriously bad. A Baker’s Crusade: Rescuing the Famed French Boulangerie 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Representing Maxwell Davies at his most engaged, it's an angry work that bears witness to "our disastrous interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan – comparable only to the folly of the medieval crusades and the Crimean war." RLPO/Petrenko – review 2012-06-11T17:10:04Z It is fun up to a point, like a perception-testing science experiment or a bit of walk-in Cubism expanded to the scale of an architectural folly, but it’s not very original. Art Review: Tomás Saraceno’s ‘Cloud City,’ on the Met’s Roof 2012-05-25T23:00:40Z Recent editions of note included Francophile follies staged by the great Broadway performer Tommy Tune. Take a visit to 1930s Chicago at the new ZinZanni spectacle 2012-08-16T21:01:10Z Even so, a collector and dealer of considerable experience, Alfred Bader of Milwaukee, felt it would be folly to miss the opportunity of grabbing a rarity charged with history. Tracking the Elusive Masters 2010-07-09T14:30:00Z It was “a triumph,” she recalled in her memoir “Kitchen Privileges,” but also a folly. Bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark dead at age 92 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z He obviously recognizes this presidential campaign is folly, that he's a Who? in the field, and that he will definitely have to run for Senate reelection in Colorado if he wants to stay in politics. A number of Democrats running for president are kind of weird about food 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z But his narrative is never dull; his judgments are informed by a weary understanding of human folly. Their own worst enemy 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The only props in the show are frilly pink parasols that the women cavort with like follies girls, and later use as implements of violence. | 'Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show': Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show? ? Review 2012-01-16T23:03:34Z She acknowledges the follies of this world while falling for it. Review: ‘Everybody Rise,’ Stephanie Clifford’s Debut Novel, Features That Old-Money Scent 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Drawing on archival photographs and audiotape, the filmmakers pay tribute both to an influential voice in broadcasting and to the times whose ideals and follies he helped articulate. Movie Review: ‘Radio Unnameable,’ a Documentary About Bob Fass of WBAI 2012-09-18T21:50:25Z Lister is enjoyable to read on Kellogg’s follies. ‘A Curious History of Sex’ Covers Aphrodisiacs, Bicycles, Graham Crackers and More 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The follies will surely increase as we age—as confounding new contraptions hit the shelves and operating-system updates outpace slowing synapses. Rudy Giuliani and the Butt-Dialler Within All of Us 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Bottom line: Managers, shareholders, and bondholders didn’t fully pay for their folly. Six reasons we may have another bank crisis 2012-08-20T17:53:00Z There are tenuous alliances and demented obsessions—a panoramic rendering of folly. The Provocative, Preposterous Power of “Insatiable” 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Much has been written about the self-immolating Paramount of the 1970s, a time of stupendous glory and equally outsize folly. Books of The Times: Near the Top at Paramount, Handling Players and Egos 2011-05-11T22:55:27Z The most startlingly pleasurable aspect of the work is that while it delves deep into the absurdities of dreams and follies, the effect is far less harrowing than in other Bausch productions. Pina Bausch's Tanztheater?Wuppertal: Agua 2010-08-29T20:31:00Z Right now I suspect that "The Tree of Life" is pretty much nuts overall, a manic hybrid folly with flashes of brilliance. Cannes: Brad Pitt and Terrence Malick's crazy religious allegory 2011-05-16T16:45:00Z As their civilisation begins to dismantle, they resort to violence, savagery and murder, turning the book into a blistering, dystopic satire on the follies of mankind, the innate savagery of masculine culture, and government itself. 'Someone missed the point': Lord of the Flies 'all girls' remake spawns social media backlash 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The great escape, he sadly concludes, was a great folly. The Real Great Escape by Guy Walters – review 2012-05-23T13:40:01Z And here is the corollary: It is painting, not the NFT, that became the archetypical medium of personal marketing and digital folly. Catch a Rising Star at the Auction House 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z They surround Solivan, joking about the folly of eating and drinking before a show. The bluegrass is now being served 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z There was a touch of madness about this whole thing, a fever that broke one evening with that revelation about the folly of perfection. This one simple trick can help you grill the perfect corn 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Given the financially straitened times, it might seem to be grand folly. Opera North tackles Wagner's Ring Cycle – minus the financial dramas 2012-06-12T16:15:28Z “Truth Facts” may not be marketed as a self-help guide, but in its own snarky way it suggests how to be better, how to recognize our folly and do something real. Brilliant compendium of ‘Truth Facts’ shows us how silly we all can be 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z I worry an asteroid is going to smite the Earth for our folly. Our TV Critics Debate the 2017 Emmy Award Nominations 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z When it was shown in Warsaw, two members of the Polish Parliament angrily removed the meteorite and then, in an act of almost touching folly, tried to stand the pontiff up on his slippered feet. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z In his review, Daniel Swift calls the book “a study of a symbol … an allegory of imperial folly and decline that reads like a historical daydream: not about a city, but something almost as big.” 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The King James Bible is loaded with memorable analogies, and one of the most vivid is from Proverbs: “As a dog returneth to its vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.” ‘Strays’ Review: A Raunchy Comedy Goes to the Dogs 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z English National Opera's new Julius Caesar opened this week with a staging of such folly that by breakfast next day it was near impossible to believe it really happened. Julius Caesar; Siegfried – review 2012-10-06T23:08:03Z And yet, if the mark of a truly great folly is its flaws and ambiguities, then Cloud Atlas falls short. Cloud Atlas – review 2013-02-21T21:03:01Z Hidden halfway down the garden is a faux ruined folly. Old friends, new way of life – why we bought a house and moved in together 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z “There’s something kind of beautiful and inspiring about follies,” she said. When Daryl Hannah, Neil Young and the son of Willie Nelson made a Netflix movie in three days 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Every great architect should be allowed one folly, even one mistake. In praise of ? Castle Drogo 2011-02-17T00:01:05Z But what about the experts on human folly? Toni Morrison in The New Yorker 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Because until then it has been kind of a sexual folly but there is also a genuine love story and a real tenderness there.” Sex and the middle-aged woman … a groundbreaking BBC drama tells it like it is 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z Though some writers noted that he was already a caricature of a caricature — difficult to parody or satirize — Mr. Trudeau recalled that he provided cartoonists with “an embarrassment of follies.” In Books on Donald Trump, Consistent Portraits of a High-Decibel Narcissist 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Its function, defined by designer Suzanne Kasler, could be said to be the universal function of all that Toad Hall embraces: “charm and folly!” Striking Images 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z In the letter we sent out asking for submissions, we called this show our ‘self-reflexive folly.’ 2010-02-11T17:50:00Z And to begin with, during the events leading up to the invasion, the folly of the British is nearer to being comic than appalling. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple – review 2013-01-23T09:01:01Z He pauses, laughing and shaking his head as if astounded at the folly of his younger self. George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z Looking for personal clues in somebody’s acting is probably a folly. I Love Gwyneth Paltrow. There. I Said It. 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z What folly to have staged it in a 23,000-seat stadium, with four Jumbotrons relaying the action to the mostly empty upper decks. Review: Kevin Spacey as Clarence Darrow, Stadium Size 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Their folly is first to fall for a playboy, then to presume that they alone can make him virtuous. Don Giovanni; La bohème; English Music festival – review 2012-06-09T23:06:16Z It’s full of the folly and stupidity and arrogance of youth. Jason Pierce Struggled to Make a New Spiritualized Album. And He May Do It Again. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z This pseudo-expressionist folly, based on the early Dostoyevsky novella, features a general atmosphere of looming paranoia and characters walking down endless corridors, accompanied by vague howls. Movies 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z It can be folly to marry yourself to the scripted words because this is such a heated moment. Hugh Grant and David E. Kelley Discuss the ‘Undoing’ Finale 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z In the short videos, Garner gets her deadpan on, playing multiple roles with just the right measure of earnestness and folly. Pippa Garner at Redling Fine Art: Vehicles for clever satire 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Forster would later call a "muddle" when writing of British folly in India. In 'Dunsinane,' David Greig offers a timely play -- set in 11th century 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z “The pursuit of desire — the hubris and folly of it, its links to our intellect and the tricky synchronicity of brain and heart — is King’s best subject,” Megan O’Grady writes in her review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z They were not popular, and within months he dropped them, suggesting that they “pass into history as ‘Bernstein’s folly.’” Women of the Philharmonic Can Play It All. Just Not in Pants. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance. Style Invitational Week 1433: Questionable Journalism 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z I suggested the folly in denying ourselves pleasure based on minor risk. Chipotle's not dead – there's just more for us brave souls who still want to eat it 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z But corona comedy goes even further than simply pointing to the folly, farce, and failures of official responses like those of the Trump team. How late night comedy shows are making sense of absurd and reckless coronavirus responses 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z Our era has become one of spectacular polarization, with folly multiplying on every hand. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z It was surely folly to send a fleet 18,000 miles to the Far East to relieve besieged Port Arthur. Their own worst enemy 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z And thus do the fashion week frolics — or follies, depending on your point of view — begin: in the wake of the U.S. The Fashion Circus Is Coming. Here’s a Cheat’s Guide. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z All summer, when I needed a break from election anxiety, I watched documentaries about space, contemplating its vastness, its quiet, its relative lack of human folly. To Mars, Not a Moment Too Soon 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Kazee and Ms. Milioti said trying to recreate the loose, casual feel of the film scenes would be particular folly, and their counterparts seconded them. Arts & Leisure: The Film ?Once? Becomes a New York Musical 2011-12-04T03:13:02Z He was speaking in his office this week about the travails, triumphs, noble struggles and sheer folly in the unusually rich stew of morality tales that are this year’s nine best picture nominees. Rabbi Marvin Hier Talks Best Picture Nominees 2012-02-02T22:55:22Z The second part of “Tabu” recounts the passions and follies of Aurora’s youth, when she lived on a plantation at the foot of a mountain in an unnamed African colony. Movie Review: Miguel Gomes’s ‘Tabu’ 2012-12-25T22:44:18Z The appropriate response would be a wry smile, or a rictus, at the folly of the human species. 'The Illusionist': Better Than 'Toy Story 3'? 2010-12-25T11:10:00Z They remind me of the thin line between bravery and folly. When I was kidnapped 2013-05-09T11:45:00Z Does his line about “a great nation caught up in dubious war” apply to America’s folly in Iraq? Books of The Times: Prophecies by Nostradamus and Climate Central 2012-07-23T20:56:24Z At the festival, the line between genius and folly is often up for debate. At Cannes, le Booing Isn’t Just Reserved for Bad Films 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Gore election recount saga, the daily follies are, in many respects, a dry run for the next presidential contest. The dark, crazy heart of Florida is on full display — again — at the election recount 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z It merely justifies the poor choices we make; in Walt’s case, it aids folly and waste. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z Not every notorious filmmaking folly turns out to be a misunderstood masterpiece, but the possibility of such an outcome haunts the discourse of box office tea-leaf reading and cinematic schadenfreude. Cross-Cuts: Reconsidering Box Office Bombs Years After the Fact 2013-08-23T12:44:45Z “To joke about it isn’t necessarily to dismiss it,” she said, “but it is to acknowledge the complete folly of that whole notion.” Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery 2014-04-25T14:00:08Z In his 1965 book “The New Unhappy Lords,” the British conservative A. K. Chesterton used Nkoloso as evidence of the folly of granting independence to African nations. The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z I have a certain grudging affection for all of these follies. American Pastoral and the curse of adapting a literary classic 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The folly of Glee lies not in the nature of musicals, but in Murphy's attempting to circumvent the conventions of a musical format only to collide with them head-on again and again. Glee's Problem? The Music 2010-04-13T17:43:00Z Both patriarchs realize and regret their folly, but only after ordeals that involve Lear enduring the least effective storm scene I have ever seen staged, and Gloucester getting enucleated. Review: A ‘King Lear’ in Which You Feel for All the Daughters 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z But with this new play, a sweet and satiric meditation on the beautiful folly of idealism, he establishes himself as a writer and artist of serious consequence. | 'The Walk Across America for Mother Earth': Protesters Armed With Wigs and Sequins 2011-01-21T03:01:21Z Photograph: Rex Features Everyone seems to love Mr Bennet, a satirical cove who relishes the follies of other characters. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z There was nothing buffoonish about Hulot; by and large, he was more likely to be bemused witness to society’s folly than to cause calamities himself. Jacques Tati’s Playtime: life-affirming comedy 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Sure, she set herself on this path by throwing in with Boyd long ago, but it was his folly that sent her to prison and Vasquez’s impatience that boxes her into this awful decision. Justified 'Trust' recap: Almost made the county line 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z He believes happiness, as a goal, is folly. Jordan Peterson is on a crusade to toughen up young men. It’s landed him on our cultural divide. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Eight years later, Fitzcarraldo Editions seems far from a madman’s folly. How a Tiny British Publisher Became the Home of Nobel Laureates 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Just consider all of the folly today that is fresh, vital, culpable and needs to be mocked off the stage. Perspective | A humor exhibition at NGA might not be funny, but it reminds us to laugh at what’s stupid 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z "Is it a room, or a terrace, or a garden folly?" 'Suyama: A Complex Serenity' illuminates the career of a prizewinning Seattle architect 2011-07-06T22:40:11Z Critics have continued to debate the meaning of “La Dolce Vita” — satire or tragedy? diagnosis or symptom? masterpiece or folly? — and Fellini himself was always coy about his intentions. 8 Cannes Film Festival Prizewinners We Love (and 3 We Don’t) 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z In a new exhibition at Coagula Curatorial, painters Manuel Ocampo and Irene Iré take on the legacy of the 18th century Spanish painter Goya, known for his acidic takes on high-class folly and war. Essential Arts: The Divine Miss M, an Ibsen sequel, everything Icelandic and charging bulls 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z “You did not want to cross her. Nora said, ‘Never turn down a front row seat for human folly.’ Tom Hanks: ‘I’ve made a lot of movies that didn’t make sense – or money’ 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z ‘The Anthem’ It’s complete folly to adapt Ayn Rand’s wooden novella “Anthem,” a belabored paean to individualism, as a straight stage drama. Theater Listings for June 27-July 3 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Well, six seasons in, the folly of that way of thinking has been exposed like a member of the Night’s Watch trapped north of the Wall. Encyclopaedia Westerosa: the biggest Game of Thrones mysteries, solved 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Surely it is criminal folly for man to allow his most precious possession to run to waste. Mahatma Gandhi: Birth control is criminal! 2013-02-18T14:45:00Z Because the late-night follies of television executives are often funnier than TV's intended entertainment. Will Fallon host 'Tonight' (and other questions)? 2013-03-24T19:01:05Z But, as in the case of Oedipus, it reveals the folly of those who would fail to see their roles in the disaster. A Plague on Your Houses: Reading Covid-19 Into Disease Onstage 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z His novels are made up of cops, lawyers, crooks and bureaucrats, outdoing one another in corruption, hypocrisy and folly, in the Boston area. David Mamet on His Inspirations for ‘The Anarchist’ 2012-11-18T04:30:01Z Commissioning an artist to design for mosaic when they have no expertise in the medium is a folly. Letters: The art of mosaics ? and St Francis in a frat-house T-shirt 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z And then to have the other pavilions be like little gems in the gardens—little follies.” Balinese Beat 2010-06-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Jude, while he shares with his contemporaries an unsentimental interest in human folly and failure, departs from the naturalism that has been their collective signature for the last decade. Review: ‘Aferim!’ Traverses an Unforgiving Romania in the 1800s 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The folly of man and his little plans, something bigger than Westeros and its politics and its throne wars! An Open Letter to the White Walker Army 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The movie overextends itself, too, by implying, in its final beat, that, folly or not, WeWork’s vision of human interaction holds promise for a post-lockdown world. ‘WeWork’ Review: The Sharing Economy or a Shared Delusion? 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Her determined expression, as she runs toward the past again, could promise hope or folly. “See You Yesterday” and the Perils—and Promise—of Time-Travelling While Black 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Against these follies, the case is made for pedestrian-friendly metropolitan cores, bicycle lanes and an ethic that combines the knowledge of experts with the desires and innovations of local residents. | 'Urbanized': Gary Hustwit?s ?Urbanized? - Review 2011-10-27T21:42:35Z Explicitly pitching seniors would be folly, said Lee, as seniors don’t like being singled out and reminded that they’re old. Aging boomers befuddle global marketers eying $15 trillion prize 2013-09-17T15:27:00Z The idea of fame — for 15 minutes or more — pulsed through the fashion season, although Paris gives less time than New York to the front row follies. Special Report: Fashion: Stars in Your Eyes 2010-10-07T16:06:00Z But imagining that the survivors’ anguish can be written off as a cost of doing business is pure folly. Perspective | Tom Perrotta’s ‘The Leftovers’ imagined 2 percent of the population disappearing. That could be our reality. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z But it would be just as dangerous to ignore history’s cautions unless one is bent on repeating its follies. Our politics are broken and toxic: How both party elites betrayed our trust, birthed Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z He alludes that it’s these kinds of previously-unavoidable follies that hurt so many struggling artists. Pandora Launches AMP To Help Artists Sift Through The Data And Make Better Business Decisions 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Cinema and literature remind us that our resources are finite, our demons many, and that despite our capacity for wonder we possess the conceit and folly to turn the planet into a vicious Darwinian struggle. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z In a city with so many ancient architectural masterpieces, a quest to find a modern structure of equal grandeur seems like folly. Revelations in High-End Rome 2012-09-28T18:24:21Z This supposedly “ancient” piece of architectural whimsy was created around 1810 by Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, as a folly, a decorative, extravagant creation, for the purpose of entertaining his friends and hosting parties. In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z The author concludes that Franklin's expedition was a "long and painful quest for a largely useless geographical clarity" and a "spectacular piece of folly." 'The Man Who Ate His Boots': The Northwest Passage ? it had to be there 2010-03-19T22:30:00Z In his early days, Dylan was dubbed "Hammond's folly" on account of his limited success. Music legend John Hammond gets film treatment 2010-04-20T06:54:00Z So, when you think about it, does “Hangmen,” which slyly addresses the folly of leaps to judgment that end in death. For ‘Hangmen’ and ‘Escaped Alone,’ Connecting Threads in London 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z On site, he was astonished to find the original follies and other architectural delights, although in a "pretty ruinous" state. Yorkshire Sculpture Park widens appeal 2011-07-24T21:56:31Z That a literal reading of the Bible was folly?” Why does the left wing ignore atheists? 2012-08-08T13:36:00Z They and their fellow beasts have their follies and foibles, but soon sink their differences to mount a collective enterprise displaying flair, pluck and determination that put the humans to shame. Animals United defeat themselves 2010-12-20T11:11:45Z As I drive away, I ponder Custer’s folly and the bravery of the Sioux. US road trip: slow drive to Sitting Bull country in North and South Dakota 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Other making-of stories — perhaps most notably, “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse” — show film sets as sites of chaos, mishaps and folly. ‘Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen’ Review: Making a New Tradition 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z And there are times when you walk through this place smiling at human folly. Museum Review: Museum of Jurrasic Technology Shows Its Wild Side - Review 2012-01-09T23:12:21Z When Britain’s chief nuclear scientist, John Cockcroft, insisted that Windscale add some radiation filters during its construction, other officials gave only grudging approval, calling the filters “Cockcroft’s folly.” ‘Atoms and Ashes,’ a Frightening Tour of Six Nuclear Accidents 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Depending on which local you talk to, the Crazy Horse Memorial statue is either an epic feat of human ambition or an equally grand folly. Head for the Black Hills: tales of Crazy Horse and Custer in South Dakota 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z It becomes a stark existential chapel in which thoughts of human folly contrast with the logic of nature. Review: Art for the Planet’s Sake at the Venice Biennale 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z But what if – in spite of their follies – they are right in their basic claim? Painted into a corner: are the stuckists right about modern British art? 2011-03-31T14:17:40Z Time’s annular habits receive a broader and more surreal treatment in “History,” from 1988, which compares the follies of youth and age with civilization’s ouroboric propensity for power and violence. Donald Hall in The New Yorker 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z But politics, not legal philosophy, explains many of the follies that he attacks. Change of heart 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Above all, he shows limitless patience with the folly and ill-humour of his witless paramour. With The Last Song, Miley Cyrus leaves her fans to their fate 2010-05-04T09:00:00Z According to one early chronicler, “The Dauphin, thinking King Henry to be given to such plays and light follies . . . sent to him a tun of tennis-balls.” David Foster Wallace’s Perfect Game 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z An unclothed young couple posed for one cover’s photographs while living in a Manhattan hotel room, “amid plastic fauna and flora in a garden folly I’d commissioned from landscape architect Ken Smith,” he explains. A Panorama of Design 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z “The Queen’s Justice” is a dialogue heavy hour that invites the viewer to contemplate the worth of words and the folly of putting too much stock in them. “Game of Thrones” recap: “Never believe a thing simply because you want to believe it” 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Iceland itself became a kind of yardstick against which Morris measured the follies and iniquities of Victorian Britain. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z Trying to explain the folly and the necessity of that choice. Jorge Sempr?n, Author Who Blurred Line Between Novel and Memoir, Is Dead at 87 2011-06-10T20:37:18Z Art series, the commission featured three powder-coated-aluminum follies with whimsical motifs. The Best Museum and Gallery Exhibitions of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z They were known for their 'five o'clock follies' cocktail parties. From Kabul love affair to Afghanistan's first centre for study of its history 2013-03-26T17:36:42Z “I was about 7 years old when I heard this story at school, which was presented to us as something didactic, as if Tyll is showing people their folly,” Kehlmann says. In His New Book, Daniel Kehlmann Says Hello to a Cruel World 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z It is not life, but there is some analogy with it in this exposure of human folly and credulity. A novel by Hilaire Belloc with twenty-two drawings by G.K. Chesterton 2012-06-05T06:30:00Z Nothing changes a son as much as seeing the folly and the frailty of a father – or of a counterfather, or even, inescapably, given Greene's agonised Catholicism, of the Father. The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer – review 2012-06-15T21:55:03Z "Opulently overstuffed" with garish, childish decorative details, The Public seemed a likely folly even in less austere times. A New Kind of Bleak by Owen Hatherley – review 2012-07-06T07:00:01Z In the care of the National Trust today, £11m must now be raised to safeguard the structure of this compelling folly. In praise of ? Castle Drogo 2011-02-17T00:01:05Z Still, while students had some excellent advice, I soon realized that planning an entire trip around their tips was folly, and turned to some other friends and relatives for more tips. Frugal Traveler: A Visit to London, With Students as My Guide 2011-03-29T21:57:15Z If you have ever driven north on the M6 and looked left between junctions 33 and 34, you may have been puzzled by this grandiose, green-domed folly dominating the skyline. Lancaster's Dukes theatre: the great outdoors 2013-07-04T14:13:02Z They are favorite targets for graffiti, too, along with the Temple of Love, a domed folly on a manufactured boulder outcropping. Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers Is Being Tended Once Again 2012-07-19T21:45:31Z His art — and this book — compellingly shows the folly of that. ‘Darling Days’: His anatomy said girl. His reality said boy. 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Satire can be defined as “a form of humor in which absurdities, vices, follies, abuses and shortcomings are presented and ridiculed, with the intent of shaming the target into self-improvement.” Donald Trump’s modest proposals: His campaign sounded like a Jonathan Swift essay — but who got the joke? 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z We learn their names, and see evidence of tenderness and folly as well as steely heartlessness. Review: Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z If ambition is a species of madness, to quote Spinoza, then the troupe’s artistic director, Julie Kent, is indeed quite struck with folly, in a deeply interesting way. Review | Ambition and glamour in Washington Ballet’s ‘Balanchine, Ratmansky, Tharp’ 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z The book dares to present a frolicsome piece of absurdism — part parody and part homage — but the parts fit together so loosely that the whole collapses into noodling folly. Books of The Times: Rick Moody?s ?Four Fingers of Death? Dips Into Absurd 2010-08-16T22:24:00Z That comforting position of a superior viewpoint on which to contemplate and regret social follies and degradations is the first, unexpressed fiction of “Graduation.” The Moralizing Pseudo-Realism of Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation” 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Do the Japanese have an expression similar to the British one, noting the folly of bringing coals to Newcastle? Review: In Takarazuka’s ‘Chicago,’ the Midwest Looks a Lot Like Japan 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z By contrast, “Split-Rocker” reads as a gigantic fuzzy green folly on the landscape. At 37 feet tall, Jeff Koons’s flower-draped ‘Split-Rocker’ demands a whole lotta love 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z I pictured that she had this one gown in the closet when she was invited to the follies reunion.” The Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias in ?Follies? on Broadway 2011-10-23T22:55:37Z But the real star of the behind-the-scenes team may be costume designer Melissa Trn, who has had a great deal of tongue-in-cheek fun dressing these characters as modern-day emblems of human folly. When superstar and superfan collide: It's 'Future Thinking' at South Coast Rep 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Once the back was leveled and a brick retaining wall put in place, Ken and Craig were able to incorporate the wall as an element in the folly. Backyard Escape: English Garden Folly 2011-07-13T17:50:12.750Z For a band dismissed by some as a hipster's folly, they've done pretty well so far. Sleigh Bells shaken to life by MIA 2010-12-16T22:31:00Z Satirists go after folly, hubris and abuses of power. Twitter won the GOP debate: A fitting tribute to Jon Stewart, who made citizen-satirists of us all 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z When she eventually sees the folly of her desire and is able to let go of it, she dissolves, with joy, into dew herself. New Museum Triennial Explores the Hidden Strengths of Soft Power 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z “In the 18th century there was a tradition of follies and gazebos in parkland — things to be discovered — so we were creating a folly in the modern tradition,” explains David Rocksavage, Marquess of Cholmondeley. T Magazine: Seeing the Light 2013-05-09T18:01:22Z It’s such a bizarre folly to pretend we don’t understand what people are saying. Perspective | The Trump-Ukraine ‘transcript’ is the latest manual for abusing power and saying you didn’t 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z And he stayed long after that folly was evident to work at a remedy for and an extrication from that tragic intervention. David Simon: Media’s sex obsession is dangerous, destructive 2012-11-15T02:43:00Z The poetry round our way came courtesy of Robert Burns, the bard of human joy and folly, who taught me how to trust in the completely improbable. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z Nathan is a small sidebar as the man who, in one rash moment of folly, lost everything. Television Review: ‘Clear History,’ Starring Larry David, on HBO 2013-08-09T21:51:47Z According to Hahn, Seal’s high school yearbook photo was accompanied by the inscription, “Full of fun, full of folly.” The True Story Behind the Movie 'American Made' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z “It has allowed us to spend faster on the buildings, have the follies restored.” How Downton Abbey helped to rescue Highclere Castle from ruin 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z To regard research findings as settled wisdom is folly, especially when they emanate from a technology whose implications are still poorly understood. Pop neuroscience is bunk! 2013-06-08T15:30:00Z Every one of us must work ever longer hours so that this millionaire’s folly can remain viable, can be sold successfully to the next one on the list. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z What he called there his "permanent condition of mild alienation" was temperamental – a distance from things that made him, in person, a wry observer of academic follies. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z The fact that the folly was saved was laudable and encouraging – and a great subject for a programme. Architect Hugh Petter on The Restoration Man 2010-03-22T22:00:00Z In Stone’s words: “Digging in the earth while the skies are filled with planes may seem like an act of folly. In fact, it’s an act of preservation.” Recreating an Archaeological Discovery From the Ground Down 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Maybe it’s folly — or bias — to raise an eyebrow at such partisan political rhetoric, or to challenge the emotions and assumptions that underlie it. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Her work is a play on the folly of painting; it is also a kind of self-portraiture. Angela de la Cruz's brush with death 2010-04-05T21:00:00Z Stirring his pot of nightmares, legends, fairy tales and human folly into stories, the British-born fantasy writer Neil Gaiman has produced more than 20 books for children and adults, most of them scary and strange. Neil Gaiman Follows the Guiding Light of Instinct 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The most extraordinary piece of carelessness, ineptitude, foolishness, folly. The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z Ranging over two dozen examples of novels, poems and plays, Mr Leigh describes how this “medieval anomaly” continued to preoccupy writers, even as they dismissed duelling as an old-fashioned folly. Men at arms 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z To leave the site in its present state because of what is possibly buried underneath it would be folly. The breathtaking potential of Liverpool (and Wirral) Waters 2013-03-07T17:00:00Z None of this is accident or folly, not caprice nor diary. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Because, without it, instead of a picaresque odyssey with an unconventional hero, it would just be a journalistic expose of military folly. The Men Who Stare at Goats: blink and you'll mistake it for reality 2010-04-21T12:04:00Z In Adam Foulds’s rich and vivid novel of World War II, we see that wars are ordinary and all alike: same blood and boredom, chaos and folly, bravado and heirloom trauma. ‘In the Wolf’s Mouth,’ by Adam Foulds In the 1930s, however, Winston was writing around the clock to fund his folly, after losing his ministerial salary and watching his American investments collapse in the Wall Street crash. Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer by Peter Clarke – review 2012-07-20T07:00:04Z If we want to put "Sons' " cliffhanger follies up against a show more its speed, just look at the CW's "Arrow." 'Sons of Anarchy' 'Greensleeves' recap: eyes open 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z “The moment, both slow-dawning and sudden, of appreciating his foolishness” becomes in Brandon’s telling almost physical, a “heavy object of his own folly,” something he could “turn … over in his hands.” A Trek Across Florida, Braving Deadly Swamps and Bounty Hunters 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z It would be folly to not think that will similarly reign supreme. The King's Speech Has a Royally Good Night at the BAFTAs 2011-02-14T09:15:00Z Once again, dinosaurs are on the roam, an unpeaceable kingdom that is an index of the folly of man trying to play God. Review: In ‘Jurassic World,’ the Franchise Feeds the Beast 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Beheadings, follies, trysts and plague: Can 12 centuries’ worth of monarchs be crammed into 500 pages, about the size of a standard biography? Royal Reads: 6 Books About British Monarchs and Coronations 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z At the Meeting House, which is tricked out in scaffolding, guests learn about its structural follies, including a leaking copper roof and sagging trusses. On the trail of Frank Lloyd Wright in Illinois and Wisconsin 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z It’s only from dating these self-styled bad boys that you will realize the folly of making yourself interesting through men. How to actually “marry smart” 2014-03-11T23:00:00Z This is a variation on an unwavering theme for Gray, who has been critiquing the follies of humanity and humanism for some time now. Want the Good Life? This Philosopher Suggests Learning From Cats 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The film could have been a triumph or, even more endearing, a wild folly on the order of David Lynch’s mad science-fiction epic Dune. John Carter: Andrew Stanton's Martian Mission Impossible 2012-03-08T16:11:02Z Every age, Mackay writes, “has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation.” Review | The 19th-century book that helps us understand the allure — and perils — of social media 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The Berlin in which Leamas had his being was a paradigm of human folly and historical paradox. John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself' 2013-04-12T20:01:01Z Decades later, the French established La Nouvelle-Orléans on the eastern banks of the lower Mississippi River, a move that many consider a folly. New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z At this point the opera exposes the folly, even the danger, of making idealized assumptions about the “other.” Review: A Newly Relevant ‘L’Amour de Loin’ at the Met 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The more blended the stone mulch becomes with accumulating organic matter, the harder it is to remove when you realize your folly. Do you have rocks in your bed? 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z In the same way the long-running animated series treats churchgoing and Christianity as part of Anytown, America's fabric, Youssef presents his family's connection to Islam as a balm seated in the chair next to folly. "Ramy" Season 2 benefits from the calm, charismatic guidance of Mahershala Ali, as do we all 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Particularly by following stupid religions that justify folly of war. Readers recommend: songs about stupidity – results 2013-03-07T14:47:19Z Behind Ayckbourn the entertainer lurks the sharpest observer of human folly in modern British drama; and one who, through Absurd Person Singular, proves that 1972 may not have been so bad after all. Absurd Person Singular, 40 years on 2012-05-25T21:55:04Z They are mutilated, forced to swim in icy waters and in some cases killed, usually in the service of one human folly or another. New Directors/New Films Festival Opens With Bold Strokes 2014-03-18T21:30:55Z The book also profiles follies that never reached the market: anti-gravitation underclothing designed to keep wearers aloft and telegraph mechanisms that relied on snails slithering around zinc bowls to tap out letters. Reading Between the Design Lines 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z This is Woody in a bemused mood, devilishly complicating his characters' lives with follies and foibles of their own making until he ties each protagonist into a comic pretzel. "Dark Stranger" a serviceable Woody Allen comedy 2010-05-17T04:43:00Z When Ms. Proulx’s house turns out to be a bit of a folly, its roads impassable in winter, you feel that a bell somewhere has been struck, and justice served. Books of The Times: A Novelist Wills Her Dream Home Into Being 2011-01-04T17:12:56Z Wolfe frequently mocked the follies of youth, yet his own prose did not seem to age at all. Tom Wolfe Kept a Close, Comical and Astonished Eye on America 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Eventually I wrote, explaining the conceit, a middle-aged folly. When Writing a Book Leaves a (Literal) Mark on Its Author 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z The plot, about a chimpanzee raised as a human being in the name of science, is classic Boyle, a writer whose motor revs at the intersection of folly and progress. Review | T.C. Boyle captures the intersection of folly and progress. This time, it’s the ill-fated Project Nim. 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z But, as the exhibition stresses, such layered shells were no aesthetic folly or indulgent fetish for the archaic. Louis Kahn: the brick whisperer 2013-02-26T21:00:02Z Most importantly, though, the incoming premier needs to grasp the war-making follies of his predecessors, and the consequences of such unbridled imperialism both domestically and on those bombed back to the stone age. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z In so doing, he shows the folly of “boy food” and scores an implicit point: Murder may not be interesting. The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z More than a century ago, ordinary people avidly followed the follies of the idle rich in the society pages and passenger lists of liners like the Atlantic or the Mauretania. The TV Watch: Reality TV Is an Old Entertainment Form 2010-08-19T21:25:00Z Trying to create astute psychological portraits from Shakespeare’s conniving cartoons is probably a lost cause, and Mr. Sexton’s cast doesn’t attempt any such folly. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z Or maybe it’s selfishness, a parental folly, like putting an infant in a bow tie or a frilly dress. The Three Chairs That Define Childhood 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Some of its more whimsical flourishes, like the anthropomorphized Israeli cows, do threaten to subvert actual history into follies. 'Wanted 18' hoofs it through Israeli hunt for cows on the lamb 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z This is all good to know; it assures you that buying “Jeff Bridges” would be less of a folly than ordering a Meryl Streep cookbook. New Music: The Dude Sings 2011-08-15T22:07:21Z To “We Need a Little Christmas” All out with folly, There’s no more need for us to act intelligent! Style Invitational: Do over the do-over — enter any of the year’s contests 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Instead it focuses on BS, abuses of power, human folly, and hubris. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z I circled that sentence as I was reading, thinking it a nice distillation of both love’s folly and the mood of the fantastical Watteau. Review: In ‘The Improbability of Love’ by Hannah Rothschild, an Art-World Caper 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Compare it with, say, the Broad in Los Angeles, and you see the difference between a museum with an identity and a purpose and a collector’s folly, warehoused in an architectural treasure house. Perspective | Is Crystal Bridges, in rural Arkansas, the most woke museum in America? 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z As "The Office" suggested on TV, even the most pedestrian employee breakroom can roil with enough intrigue and folly to make the House of Borgia look tame. In 'My Mañana Comes,' pay cut for restaurant workers turns friends into rivals 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z It was the greatest strategic folly in modern times. Little America by Rajiv Chandrasekaran - review 2012-07-20T21:55:03Z Matt has to unlock a secret that Sally’s keeping as they spar in a derelict boathouse — the Victorian “folly” of the title. Review | Theater J, still roaming across D.C., revives ‘Talley’s Folly’ 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Anna expressed strength and weakness, and while staying true to herself, joyfully embodied the contradictions of all that is feminine: hence charm and violence, gentleness and ferocity, folly and lucidity, courage and fragility. Movie Stars Have Heroines, Too 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Its contemporary topics — no less relevant now than in the ’80s — include intellectual fashion, pharmacological folly, environmental destruction and rampant consumerism. ‘White Noise’ Review: Toxic Events, Airborne and Domestic 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Our protagonist functions as a one-woman Greek chorus: rather than the crowd observing the fateful actions of the individual, the individual is left to grieve the folly of the crowd. In Elvia Wilk’s “Oval,” Earth, Capitalism, and the Human Species Sink Toward Doom 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z It’s an understandable response, yet slightly surprising to hear coming from Ms. Anderson, whose work often considers the horrors and follies of humanity from a cool, more detached perspective. Laurie Anderson?s Heart, Politics and Processors 2010-06-25T16:17:00Z “The Simpsons” endures because at its core it remains about “family and folly,” he writes. Review | Hi-diddily-ho, here’s everything you’ve ever wanted to know about ‘The Simpsons’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Its emphasis falls on the folly of killing the thing that you wish would endure; terror burgeons in the gap between what was desired and what was achieved. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z The Horizon is at once a grand accomplishment and a catastrophic folly, and “Deepwater Horizon” is above all a study in the mechanics of hubris. Review: In ‘Deepwater Horizon,’ Oil, Fire and Greed 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z In 1958 Leonard Bernstein tried to wean the New York Philharmonic from evening dress on Thursdays, but he soon dropped the new, relaxed uniforms, dismissing them as “Bernstein’s folly.” Taking the Starch Out of Orchestra Attire 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z After the folly of “Rocky Balboa,” the former champ is out of the ring for good. Review: In ‘Creed,’ Rocky’s Back, as a Mentor, Not a Fighter 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Now, like Lear’s subjects, we find ourselves experiencing the chaos that reigns “when majesty falls to folly.” Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z He uses characters he has made up to comment on the various vices and follies we see all around us – here, especially in our political leaders. Passnotes No 3,198: Selina Meyer 2012-06-24T19:00:03Z “Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as ‘the most flagrant of all the passions,’” Tuchman wrote. Barbara W. Tuchman, Folly and the Stream of History 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z This was 1976, and the Worldwide Texas Tour, one of the greatest follies in rock history. ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta 2012-11-08T19:00:00Z This case finds Daisy at a country home to research her book of architectural follies. Summer reading list: 7 super mysteries and thrillers 2011-06-24T21:26:07Z There was enormous social pressure to engage in what is obviously a folly: to begin adulthood by lying, by making up fraudulent histories, by pretending that you’re independent, by grotesque and unoriginal conspicuous consumption. Your wedding's been cancelled by the coronavirus lockdown? Good 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z He discusses, for example, the changing role of media, and gossips with equal and self-deprecating verve about the wounded egos of poorly reviewed chefs, the idiosyncrasies of other critics and his own folly. Who’s in the Kitchen: A Quartet of Culinary Narratives 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z If you are what you eat, what other possible outcome would you foresee for a generation raised on a diet of folly and artifice: Vietnam, Watergate, “Charlie’s Angels” and Twinkies? Possessed : Jonathan Adler’s Guiding Light: His Mother 2012-12-08T00:16:34Z He thinks the Israeli boarding of the Turkish boat bound for Gaza last May – nine activists were killed – was pure folly. David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair' 2010-08-28T23:03:00Z But its laughs tend to come from the same source as the film’s: mainly, the vampires’ tendency toward human folly. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ and ‘Monsters and Men’ 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Ignoring the voice of his wife, calling to him from the bedroom, Hoffman pours himself another whiskey and pores over the front page, muttering in grim pleasure at human folly. | 'Happy Hour': ?Happy Hour,? One-Act Plays by Ethan Coen - Review 2011-12-06T03:01:00Z But, as the second decade of the twenty-first century proceeded inexorably toward its culmination, it began to seem to me as if human folly—in politics, arts, and culture—was almost willfully outdoing itself. The Year in Stupidity 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Is this a natural wonder of the world or a domesticated folly in Jefferson’s back garden? Perspective | Rekindling the wonder of Natural Bridge, once a testament to American grandeur 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z I was like, okay, there's definitely some darkness and some folly but it didn't show the hand of how passionately he was a eugenicist and how much he did for the movement. "Why Fish Don't Exist" explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Amelia's epic migration was no mere curiosity: As Pinchin explains, it vividly demonstrated the folly of conventional tuna management. In bluefin tuna, fisheries science is never neat 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z I know the folly of not recognising that. Lupita Nyong’o: ‘Under the makeup, Star Wars is just human wants and desires’ 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z The tallest folly in the UK, it climbs into the air with telescopic ambition, pierced parapets piled upon trefoil tracery. Hadlow Tower: the UK's tallest folly reborn as a rentable holiday home 2013-04-18T11:06:44Z So many contemporary plays owe something to Chekhov and his tender lampoons of human folly. Ben Feldman, Mamie Gummer and modern love in the Uber age 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Because Welcome to the Pleasuredome, Frankie Goes to Hollywood's none-more-80s monument to bombast and epic folly, ushers the listener into a palace of bacchanalian excess, it will take all of your willpower to survive. Readers recommend: songs about visitors ? results 2011-08-25T13:46:52Z He believes that the scriptures must be taken at their word, rather than being allowed to flourish as many-layered parables, teeming with quarrels, follies, jokes, reversals and paradoxes. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z Bonnett is here to tell us that it's more often shaped by greed, vanity, folly and what often looks like madness. 'Unruly Places' is a guide to weird, ruined and wonderful spots 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z But today's satire is often not just a comment on the flaws and follies of the world and a call to rethink them. Why Zelenskyy's background in comedy really matters 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z This is exactly the kind of folly that takes up my time and kind of puts me behind deadline on other things. "Great British Bake Off" veteran Ruby Tandoh: "I see the show and I feel a pressure from it" 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z The very illusions that brought us victory are what powered our subsequent hubris, and nemesis rose from the inevitable disillusion of a world that trusted us in our folly. How Victory in the Cold War Led to Tragedy in the Years After 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z But more than a silly fashion folly, the coat is a distraction. Perspective | Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations are lovely, but that coat looks ridiculous 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Part architectural folly, part technical feat, the eye-catching pavilion—called Vaulted Willow—is the work of Marc Fornes and his experimental Brooklyn design studio, TheVeryMany. A Must-See Pavilion in Alberta 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Even before ground was broken, however, critics pointed out the folly of the riverfront location. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Heidi was a follies star, though “she never married,” Ms. Elias emphasized. The Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias in ?Follies? on Broadway 2011-10-23T22:55:37Z And David Petraeus saw and spoke to the folly of Iraq before the rest of America was cheering the fall of Saddam’s statue. David Simon: Media’s sex obsession is dangerous, destructive 2012-11-15T02:43:00Z They tend to repeat this tunnel-vision folly for the rest of the film — and their lives. 'Vincere' follows Mussolini's charismatic impact on World War II through tragic lover 2010-04-01T18:56:00Z Next up in the fashion follies was Costume National. For a Clue to Men’s Fashion Turmoil, Look to the Suit 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The dome, adjacent to the historic ship the Queen Mary, was the former home of Howard Hughes' airplane folly the Spruce Goose. Family, fans turning out for Nate Dogg funeral 2011-03-26T11:01:04Z She was brilliant, hilarious and beautiful, but the woman she saw reflected back at her was a cartoon, an avatar of female folly as drawn by a casually misogynist press. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z It was stunning, but many of the follies felt like a spectacular waste, a manic fury of building for the sake of building, without regard to expense or purpose. In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z His cheerful air suggests he is not being driven to bankruptcy by an architectural folly. St Pancras Renaissance Hotel: The rebirth of a gothic masterpiece 2011-02-13T00:05:22Z Asked about her drug habit by Diane Sawyer in a 2002 interview, she was evasive, uncomfortably intense, and full of folly: “I want to see the receipts,” she said impertinently. An Appraisal: Whitney Houston?s Voice of Triumph and Pain 2012-02-12T15:39:23Z These follies only discount her credibility, opening her up to discourse on whether she still claims the throne. Madonna's MDNA: The Queen of Pop Wants You to Dance, Not Think 2012-03-26T20:09:57Z My digital follies provided comfort; the Internet is a haven for the emotionally dysfunctional. I was a troll on the white dude-bro Internet: The dark side of gaming, libertarianism, and guns 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z It tells in pictures the salutary tale of a man driven to madness by spendthrift folly. Rude Britannia at Tate Britain: no laughing matter 2010-06-15T13:50:00Z And in another Swiss folly, a German truck driver trying to deliver cargo to a factory in the town of Sempach found himself up a tree — literally. 9 of the most epic GPS failures 2014-02-19T13:45:00Z I've tended to read Jocelin's folly as part of a profoundly human condition – the search for meaning, the construction of belief, even as exemplar of the novelist's ability to invent and elaborate. Reading group: The Spire's many meanings 2013-04-15T10:34:02Z But after his recent successes, is it folly to hope to play James Tyrone Sr. in the next “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” revival? Reed Birney, Back on Broadway in ‘Picnic’ 2013-01-06T04:47:18Z Perhaps her elusive behavior might simply be the folly of youth. Why Won’t Anyone Help Me in This Sex Shop? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Unlike Coppola’s earlier films, which approach the follies of youth with a sweet sense of melancholy, this one seems to raise a kind of parental alarm. | Lee Radziwill and Sophia Coppola, on Protecting Privacy 2013-05-30T18:00:26Z So in this case, form follows government folly. Review: In ‘Stateless’ on Netflix, Cate Blanchett (and Immigration) 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z The dome in Hale's hometown of Long Beach is adjacent to the historic ship the Queen Mary and was the former home of Howard Hughes' airplane folly, the Spruce Goose. Snoop Dogg, Warren G attend service for Nate Dogg 2011-03-26T22:01:04Z Unlikely to become regarded as either comic's defining work, but it should almost by definition be at least intermittently compelling – as folly, hubris and people skateboarding into dustbins always are. TV highlights 15/01/2013 2013-01-14T20:00:02Z Nor are follies and blunders and train wrecks. Review: ‘The Huntsman,’ a Study in Hollywood’s Overstuffed Playbook 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Satire depends on exaggeration and parody to point out the flaws and folly in what it is mocking. Enough with “the Colbert Defense”: Why criminals, bigots and jerks cry “satire!” when exposed 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Why it never happened: Pure folly, and it would have required the introduction to the TV series of glamoring and a whole host of other, non-essential characters that feature in Mance’s story. Game of Thrones: the shocking book moments that never made it to TV 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z In a musical era defined by post-punk's minimalism and deconstructionism, a sprawling concept album based on a Victorian novel about a Martian invasion of Earth appeared a gargantuan folly. The War of the Worlds – review 2012-12-16T18:00:04Z Each season of the show has gotten progressively more confident in spinning its byzantine tales of crime and human folly in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 4: A Wolf in Cheap Clothing 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z But it also almost reminds me of another aspect of Oscars folly. What ‘Green Book’ Says About the Academy. Our Critics on the Oscars. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The result is a compelling drama about prejudice and folly. 'Ajami': Israeli Oscar nominee targets prejudice and folly in the 'hood 2010-04-22T21:32:00Z Some colleagues argued it would be a wasteful folly because the Soviets sealed their borders tightly. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies As the most prominent columnist of the Weimar Republic, he skewered the fashions and follies of the newly ascendant right wing in reams of satirical essays, poems and cabaret songs under five different bylines. A Lauded Satirist of the Weimar Republic Who Anticipated the Brutality of the Third Reich 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z That humankind has been consumed in mayhem and folly ever since we started walking upright — and probably even before — is obvious to anybody who’s glanced at a history book. | 'Long Story Short': Colin Quinn Performs at 45 Bleecker Street 2010-08-16T21:32:00Z It would be folly to equate “The Intervention” with “The Big Chill,” but there are parallels. Review: In ‘The Intervention,’ There’s a Big Chill in the Air 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z “Gold” could have been a biting satire of greed and folly, a neo-Conradian tale of Western misadventure in Asia, a rousing fable of underdog triumph or a caper comedy. Review: Matthew McConaughey Mines Profane Capitalism in ‘Gold’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z These were funny poems featuring printed black-and-white images of skeletons in clothes, poking fun at the follies and pretensions of the living. Raising Up the Dead 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, thought the Civil War was hypocritical folly from the start. Fiction Chronicle: First Lady of the Confederacy 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Marianne's "declaration that the day would be lastingly fair" is utter folly, revealed when "a driving rain set full in their face". Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z A study of a symbol, it is an allegory of imperial folly and decline that reads like a historical daydream: not about a city, but something almost as big. The Sinking of the Most Powerful Warship in History 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The staircase that was born of this "great folly," as he wrote on a tile, is full of stories, notes, poignant mementos of those who pass by and leave something of themselves. Artist Selaron found dead by his work in Brazil 2013-01-11T00:22:22Z The restoration, led by English Heritage, has been a matter of cleaning up, decluttering and unclogging the gardens, as well as restoring its temples and follies. Chiswick House: 2010-06-12T23:04:00Z It’s also a bloated folly, which is in keeping with an industry that has a habit of supersizing itself in times of crisis. ‘Babylon’ Review: Boozing. Snorting. Grinding. That’s Entertainment!? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z It's a big, expensive folly of a movie, overstuffed with remarkable perception and irredeemable glop, and even with the most accomplished performance of Brad Pitt's career it may not find much of an audience. Pick of the week: Malick's gorgeous, crazy "Tree of Life" 2011-05-27T00:30:00Z Serling, who died in 1975, envisioned “The Twilight Zone” as a delivery system for parables with deliberate messages of social justice and allegories of human weakness and folly, coated in a digestible layer of fantasy. After ‘Us,’ Jordan Peele Crosses Over to ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The folly of youth – that sense of possibility and invincibility – is regained when he becomes Edward Hyde. Ian Rankin on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 2010-08-16T14:31:00Z Rossini's "mad" choruses, particularly in this opera, reflect the folly of life with dazzling rationality and tight musical control. The Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet – review 2013-03-03T00:06:19Z Castle Howard, in Yorkshire, where follies and garden buildings are on the annual register of the most important listed buildings at risk. Stately home owners to gain access to lottery money 2012-07-05T17:41:55Z An exponent of the International Style and a peer of Le Corbusier, the late architect cut his teeth on surreal film sets and Cubist follies for the wealthy. Villa Cavrois Reopens Post-Renovation 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Expecting "And Just Like That…" to model aging gracefully is folly. "And Just Like That," Charlotte reminds us of the longstanding fatphobia in "Sex and the City" 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z “It certainly feels like folly that I or anyone else has a definitive understanding or comprehensive understanding” of what was going on, Mr. Kushner said. Tony Kushner Plans a Trump Play, and a New ‘West Side Story’ 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z He stops off at the super-rich folly of self-made software mogul Larry Dean in Atlanta, Georgia – a mansion the colour of salmon mousse. Why We Build by Rowan Moore – review 2013-01-06T00:08:47Z Hindsight is never clearer than when looking at the follies of the big screen, and they don't come much bigger than Cleopatra. TV highlights 23/07/2013 2013-07-23T06:00:19Z Blackout,” a series of whimsical sketches lampooning the follies of Wall Street, at Here Arts Center. | 'Panic! Euphoria! Blackout': Wall Street: 60 Goats and a Soft Shoe 2010-10-14T22:43:00Z Having its expensive bulk in one's home is a reminder of one's folly and failures. The damning portrayals of Peloton on our TVs and what that says about us 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Catching up with the latest headlines over coffee the next morning, I laughed at my earnest folly. Review | You’ve probably never heard of these artists, but they painted reality in a way we’ve lost sight of 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Comedies of any age endure because their characters, no matter how absurd the situations they find themselves in, are recognizably human, even when their foibles or follies are exaggerated. Review: ‘The Servant of Two Masters,’ and His Misfortunes 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Anyway, the world will move on, absorbed by other events and human follies. On the Runway: Spring Theater of the Absurd 2011-04-15T18:43:26Z The window into the Met’s expensive opulence, however, as well as the folly of embarking upon a career that rewards so few, ups the enjoyment ante considerably. Anne Simpson Thought She Knew Her Husband. She Didn’t. 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Greene's great gift and his fount of despair, Iyer had written in that piece, was his ability to "see the folly and frailty of everyone around him". The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer – review 2012-06-15T21:55:03Z Perhaps you’re familiar with Ramparts magazine’s bestiaries, which lampooned the political follies of the 1960s, or “Sorel’s Unfamiliar Quotations” in The Atlantic Monthly. The ‘Profusely Illustrated’ Life of Edward Sorel 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The second area will be a timeline, stretching from Broadway’s birth in the mid-18th century to classic book musicals and follies to shows currently running onstage. Museum of Broadway in Times Square Sets New Opening Date 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z She deftly notes myriad ways Harry and Ruby mirror — and rebel against — their parents’ behavior, and the many ways their teenage passions remind their aging parents of their own youthful follies. Review: In Emma Straub’s ‘Modern Lovers,’ Passion and Regret in Brooklyn 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z In the suite’s windy, self-scolding lyrics, Thile sends up the folly of certainty — wagging his own fear of death in his face, daring himself to wonder how deeply it has influenced his beliefs. The Endless Curiosity of Chris Thile 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Satire is the derision of vice or folly, and is not necessarily a political activity. Political satire 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z The romantic notion of starting a car company in your garage is a folly from a bygone era. Elon Musk's Financial Car Wreck 2010-05-28T21:52:00Z Here, she reworks Oliver Goldsmith’s poignant lyric: “When lovely woman stoops to folly/ And finds too late that men betray.” Michael Dirda on the misunderstood poet Stevie Smith 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Or a bulbous glass and steel Victorian folly around the corner? A Glasgow Architect’s Masterpiece Is Damaged, but Not His Magic 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Besides its namesake structure, the Glass House property contains a treasure trove of buildings and architectural follies of Johnson’s creation, making it a veritable survey of his work and interests, which guests happily explored. An Architectural Landmark Plays Host to a Stylish Summer Affair 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z I like laughing at folly, and I, too, think that a whole lot about the art world is completely and utterly nuts. Perspective | Don’t ask if the duct-tape banana is art. Ask if it’s any good. 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z In part, Pushkin’s tale was meant to poke fun at the folly of kings, a perennial Russian subject. ‘The Golden Cockerel’ Is a Ballet Bird With a Kick 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Quinn said in an interview from his Houston home that Lee misinterpreted his book's message about the folly of continually increasing food production to meet population demands. Discovery Channel gunman had explosive devices 2010-09-02T12:22:00Z It is a smile amused by the follies of men, and by the forward strides of modernity, such as they are. Top Ten Things About Wonder Woman 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Given the return of the real-life presidential follies, this could be a well-timed reprise. Summer theater: Five opportunities to see something special 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z |
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