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People might fall down political rabbit holes, taken in by superficially convincing bullshit, or obsessed by folies à deux relationships with machine personalities that don’t really exist.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2023

For Sinclair, the grandest of these folies de grandeur, the whitest of these white elephants, is the 2012 Olympics site, whose construction has been under way in east London for four years now.

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2011

When the restlessness of Louis XV could no longer find moorings in this brilliancy, there came into being little houses called folies, garden hermitages for the privileged.

From The House in Good Taste by Wolfe, Elsie de

On ne fait pas de ces folies la!" says he, offering me snuff, "and your grandfather was a man of esprit!

From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Imagine what would be the impression if some day a sovereign went on the stage of the folies Bergères as a "number" for a sleight-of-hand performance!

From Characters and events of Roman History by Ferrero, Frances Lance