fooleries

Laurens particularly hated festive celebrations and believed that the Olympic Games “and other fooleries brought on the desolation of Greece.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

The natives died of starvation by the million, while their rulers robbed them of the fruits of their toil and expended it on magnificent pageants and mumbo-jumbo fooleries.

Chapter 17: The Scarlet Livery 2010

A substitute for distractions, when we go on enjoying all the old fooleries to the very last?

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

A substitute for distractions, when we go on enjoying all the old fooleries to the very last?

Brave New World 2009

“And have chosen wrong subjects to practise your fooleries upon,” said the farther one, still more gruffly.

Quentin Durward 2008

But the good mower who does things just as they should be done and have been for a hundred thousand years, falls into none of these fooleries.

The Mowing of a Field 2008

It is the raving of some wretched Jew, who wrote those infamous and revolting fooleries, in imitation of the tales so greedily swallowed by the neighboring population in Syria.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

When Herodotus narrates what he was told by the barbarians among whom he travelled, he narrates fooleries, after the manner of the greater part of travellers.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

How then, pedant! would you have them regarded as atheists, because they adore only one God! You condemn this other proposition: “The man of sense knows that men are what they must be; that all hatred against them is unjust; that a fool commits fooleries as a wild stock bears bitter fruits.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

I suppose that when I saw Dora in the garden and pretended not to see her, and rode past the house pretending to be anxiously looking for it, I committed two small fooleries which other young gentlemen in my circumstances might have committed — because they came so very natural to me.

David Copperfield 2007