Grace knew that it would be sheer folly to try to run.

Just getting up and living through another day seemed like sheer folly.

I think to rush it through now would be sheer folly.

She told herself a thousand times that it was sheer folly.

It was all through his sheer folly that those men lost their lives.'

It's sheer folly to talk about what life makes of us.

If that isn't sheer folly and a sin and a shame.

She felt a desperate need to laugh at it, at the sheer folly.

Well, in the present instance your claim is sheer folly.

As for this fancy of yours, it is sheer folly: Lucretia knows my mind.

To strike across country there without good supplies and on foot is sheer folly.

At any rate, this modern notion of giving them their liberty is sheer folly.

To bill her in her present state as the Madcap American would be sheer folly.

The sheer folly of it took my breath away.

To have offered resistance would have been sheer folly.

You must see that it would be sheer folly.'