Definition, Bedeutung & Synonyme | Englisch Wort FOOLISHNESS

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Definitionen von FOOLISHNESS

1. : Dummheit, Torheit, Leichtsinn, Tölpelhaftigkeit
2. speziell: dumme, törichte Tat oder Idee

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Beispiele für die Verwendung von FOOLISHNESS in einem Satz

• As a slang term, shit has many meanings, including: nonsense, foolishness, something of little value or quality, trivial and usually boastful or inaccurate talk or a contemptible person.
• “Those teachers those educators made sure that we focused on being the best that we possibly could be so there wasn't a lot of time for foolishness or time to waste,” said Nero.
• Wessel is known first of all for his many humorous and satiric verse tales referring to man's foolishness and injustice.
• Foolishness, the unawareness or lack of social norms which causes offence, annoyance, trouble or injury.
• In spite of his lechery, cantankerousness and occasional whimsy or foolishness, he is often depicted as wise and perceptive.
• As Psyche shone the light on her husband's face, she realized that he was a god and reprimanded herself for her foolishness.
• According to Christian ideas, "foolishness" included consistent rejection of worldly cares and imitating Christ, who endured mockery and humiliation from the crowd.
• Although he prides himself on his intelligence, he often becomes embroiled in hare-brained schemes, often due to his own foolishness.
• The concept of foolishness was a frequently used trope in the pre-Reformation period to legitimize criticism, as also used by Erasmus in his Praise of Folly and Martin Luther in his "" (Address to the Christian Nobility).
• There is no deep social meaning in his comedy, no shades of subtlety — just utter slapstick foolishness, delivered in an endearingly simpering style that's the closest thing the 1930s had to Pee-wee Herman.
• Michèle Tribalat, a demographer at Institut national d'études démographiques (INED) said the figures Amiel suggested were "une sottise" ("a piece of foolishness").
• 'Tight-lacing' became part of the corset controversy: dress reformists claimed that the corset was prompted by vanity and foolishness, and harmful to health.
• In it, Geminus describes the zodiac and the motion of the Sun, the constellations, the celestial sphere, days and nights, the risings and settings of the zodiacal signs, luni-solar periods and their application to calendars, phases of the Moon, eclipses, star phases, terrestrial zones and geographical places, and the foolishness of making weather predictions by the stars.
• Absurdity is contrasted with being realistic or reasonable In general usage, absurdity may be synonymous with nonsense, meaninglessness, fancifulness, foolishness, bizarreness, wildness.

• Every now and then a film comes along of such painstaking, overripe foolishness that it breaks through the garbage barrier to become one of those rare movies you rush to see for laughs.

• Tartuffe flees, and Orgon, confessing his foolishness, presents Mariane to Valère amid general rejoicing.
• ' The humorous ending of the otherwise horrifying story of The Man and the Wife Who Quarreled, in which a husband cuts out the tongue of his wife only to have her continue their quarrel in sign language, draws from Marie the wry comment that 'This fable shows what one can often see: if a fool talks foolishness and someone else comes along and speaks sense to him, he won't believe it but gets angry instead.
• The Historia Norwegiæ records that Thyra was the mother of Gunnhildr konungamóðir with her husband and contrasts her astuteness with the foolishness of Gorm.
• The richness of the Treasure Valley, high in the mountains of Stiria or Styria, southeastern Austria, is lost through the evil of its owners, the two elder "Black Brothers", Hans and Schwartz, who in their foolishness mistreat Southwest Wind, Esquire, who in turn floods their valley, washing away their assets, and turning their valley into a dead valley of red sand.
• It is not different from the case of the righteous man living in a neighborhood of a town known for foolishness, lawlessness, atrocity, and heartlessness.
• Arriving at the Underworld, Tiresias (Christopher Lee) torments Odysseus, recognizing his courage and wit, but criticizing his ego and foolishness.
• This foolishness jeopardizes the careers of both Kubinyi and Redl, but the commanding officer, Colonel von Roden, having noted Redl's hard work and loyalty to the Emperor, arranges a promotion for him and a prized assignment in Vienna.
• Robert Koehler, reviewing for Variety, called it "scrappy foolishness" and noted the "visual jokes pile up like the bad guys but never at the kind of crackling pace this brand of spoof demands" while comparing it to Fear of a Black Hat.
• Dickens opens the novel with a sentence that has become famous:

  It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

• Also a poet, Brown received a Gregory Award in 1976 and has subsequently published four collections of poems, including Mekin Foolishness (1981), Zinder (1986) and Lugard's Bridge (1989).

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