But for the fishers, I might have left my bones there, in pure folly.

"To encourage people to spend less when demand is already falling was pure folly"

But is his return a move of pure folly?

It's pure folly to assume things will simply improve after these events.

Until we know where the attack is concentrated, it would be pure folly for you to bring an expedition here.

At the same time, I think it's confirmation that this project was pure folly from the outset.

But a spokeswoman for the agency dismissed the assertion as "pure folly."

Trying to impose the old restrictions on them would be the purest folly.

If we are the same as we were yesterday, then it is pure folly.

Getting near her again was pure folly, he thought with self-disgust.