How To Use Heedlessness In A Sentence
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Yet Lincoln, according to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles, "took upon himself the whole blame—said it was carelessness, heedlessness on his part—he ought to have been more attentive.
Lessons of Fort Sumter
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I know not how long they shall ride the steed of desire and wander erringly in the desert of heedlessness and error.
A Traveler’s Narrative
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Shes not entirely careless about her physical well being, but the doughnuts represent a certain heedlessness in her desire to appease her appetites.
Elizabeth Strout - An interview with author
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She might seem, indeed, like himself, rather a "visitant" than an inhabitant of this planet, and their courtship not unlike one of his own stories of half immaterial lovers who go hand in hand, with sentiments for sentences and great heedlessness of mortal matters, to an idyllic union of hearts.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Rational Review
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For several years, as might naturally have been expected, the callant was a perfect dead-weight on the concern, and perhaps, in her hours of greater distress, the widow regretted the heedlessness of her Christian charity; but Charlie had a winning way with him, and she could not find it in her heart to turn him to the door.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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The grim little smile upon her lips when one big girl above Ruth went down before "forswear," spelling it with an extra "e," showed that the teacher considered the miss deserved to fail because of her heedlessness.
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret
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It is impossible to achieve genuine distinction without a certain heedlessness of public opinion.
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There remained but one hope: to ascribe the unavertible death of her husband to some accident, some heedlessness.
The Indian Lily and Other Stories
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But the inherited trait that shows more prominently is a kind of heedlessness, a stubborn belief that the Kennedys can live above the rules.
The Camelot Curse
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Though lacking beauty in any strict sense of the word, her energy and heedlessness - a sort of helplessness born of irresponsibility - drew people to her.
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In a kind of heedlessness, for which I cannot blame myself enough, I have, I have no doubt, mentioned
Dombey and Son
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Further, monks, a noble disciple gives up the taking of what is not given gives up sexual misconduct gives up wrong speech gives up intoxicating drinks and drugs causing heedlessness, and abstains from them.
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For several years, as might naturally have been expected, the callant was a perfect deadweight on the concern, and perhaps, in her hours of greater distress, the widow regretted the heedlessness of her Christian charity; but Charlie had a winning way with him, and she could not find it in her heart to turn him to the door.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, exploitativeness, heedlessness, arrogance, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, and lack of empathy and remorse.
Think Progress » Ultimate Fox News revisionism: ‘What used to be called the nuclear option’ is now ‘called reconciliation.’
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They moved with a heedlessness and dreamlike courage towards the doom they had so assiduously courted.
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She can help Annie develop habits and inclinations that offset her heedlessness or her lack of sympathy, such as the habit of cleaning up her messes literally and figuratively, of apologizing, and of righting the wrongs she has done.
Red Flags or Red Herrings?
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Well, and you'll all be disappointed," said Hervey with a kind of heedlessness that nettled his scoutmaster.
Tom Slade on Mystery Trail
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In a kind of heedlessness, for which I cannot blame myself enough, I have, I have no doubt, mentioned Mr Carker the Junior much oftener than was necessary; and have allowed his name sometimes to slip through my lips, when it was against your expressed wish.
Dombey and Son
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How deemest thou of yonder cornuted, who is drunken in his heedlessness and weeteth not the wiles of women?
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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But there's a heedlessness to the city's sense of its own fabled history.
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He has the loose-jointed movements of an athlete, and a brisk heedlessness as he crushes raw sugar into a splash of coffee.
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This is the true philosophy of most of what is called heedlessness in children, and for which, poor things, they receive so many harsh reprimands and so much punishment.
Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Met
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There were not a few who saw things blackly in this respectand flayed the planlessness and heedlessness of the Reich's policies, andwell recognized their inner weakness and hollowness but these were onlyoutsiders in political life; the official government authorities passedby the observations of a Houston Stewart Chamberlain with the same indifferenceas still occurs today.
Mein Kampf
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Upon this threshold of a wild scene of death they, in short, defied the proportion of events with that splendor of heedlessness which belongs only to veterans.
The Little Regiment
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I found myself rooting for Tamara to reconnect in the deepest way with handsome Andy, her childhood friend — Luke Evans makes him a son of the soil who would have had Hardy's vote — and I was shocked by her home-wrecking exploits with a fatuous scrivener, though her heedlessness is exactly the point.
A Grownup Look at Lennon as a 'Boy'
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In a fit of phrensical heedlessness, I sent a letter to my beloved Miss Howe, without recollecting her private address; and it has fallen into her angry mother’s hands: and so that dear friend perhaps has anew incurred displeasure on my account.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Mansfield†™ s lecture is a reading from the first chapter of his book, which argues that manliness†"what he defines as sexual rapacity, an appetite for war, a general bull-in-a-china-shop heedlessnessâ€" is preferable to the namby-pamby faggotistical mores being pressed on us by radical feminism and the castratory mandates of late capitalism / twenty-first-century bureaucratic culture.
Harper's Magazine
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I for a long time, but at last I awoke from my heedlessness and, returning to my senses, I found my wealth had become unwealth and my condition ill-conditioned and all I once hent had left my hand.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
