How To Use Impetuosity In A Sentence
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Youthful impetuosity and confidence has given way to caution and self-doubt, fuelled by a whole array of injuries over the years.
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We ought to be much better cavalrymen than infantrymen, because the essential in a cavalryman is a fearless impetuosity.
Battle Studies
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But, like several of his colleagues, there is an impetuosity to his batting and he has struggled for consistency.
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Defoe's impetuosity and foolhardiness extended to his business affairs.
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These analogies can be taken to mean that the form of akrasia that Aristotle calls weakness rather than impetuosity always results from some diminution of cognitive or intellectual acuity at the moment of action.
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What had drawn him to her from the very first was that fierce impetuosity in her, an integrity which had nothing to do with truth.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Astounded, she gazed in his eyes for a space, like a beautiful statue, and then suddenly burst out sobbing; and with the wonderful feminine impetuosity which only grand-souled, uncalculating women, created for fine impulses of the heart, are capable of, threw herself upon his neck, encircling it with her wondrous snowy arms, and wept.
Taras Bulba
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One small officer in his impetuosity dashed at the pig with his spear, missed him clean, and fell over on the top of him.
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Faith! if the life we live is like the globe we inhabit -- if it revolves on its own axis, _and you're that axis_ -- there's not a flaw in your philosophy; but IF -- Now perish my impetuosity!
Melchior's Dream and Other Tales
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Oedipus -- his essential innocence, his affectionateness, his uncalculating benevolence and public spirit; -- while his impetuosity and passionateness make the sequel less incredible.
The Seven Plays in English Verse
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First, on account of the violence of its onslaught; thus anger is violent in its onslaught on account of its impetuosity; and "still more difficult is it to resist concupiscence, on account of its connaturality," as stated in _Ethic. _ ii, 3, 9.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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With characteristic impetuosity, he announced he was leaving school.
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Tom, who stood by her, idly spinning the curtain tassel, followed the familiar figure with his eye, and seeing how gray the hair had grown, how careworn the florid face, and how like a weary old man his once strong, handsome father walked, he was smitten by a new pang of self-reproach, and with his usual impetuosity set about repairing the omission as soon as he discovered it.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
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Leinsdorf shows unwonted impetuosity in his approach to tempos, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, while not consistently as refined as it could be, plays the music tautly.
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In spite of his usual command over himself, Dant è s could not restrain his impetuosity.
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Perhaps they miss something of the impetuosity of the first movement of the Kreutzer, the violent physical impact that Beethoven brought to music (and which is anticipated in the fiery C minor sonata).
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You have Bettina's high-mindedness and Anna's impetuosity, though I can't work out which is uppermost.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Hunter asked himself, worried now by his own impetuosity.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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His excellency, having heard the circumstances of the dispute, sent one of his gentlemen to invite the youth to dinner; and after having assured him that he might depend upon his countenance and regard, represented the rashness and impetuosity of his conduct so much to his conviction, that he promised to act more circumspectly for the future, and drop all thoughts of the mousquetaire from that moment.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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Inexperience is magnified as a handicap when it is compounded with two further weaknesses: impetuosity and ideology untempered by common sense.
The spotlight begins to shine on the coalition's flaws and faultlines | Andrew Rawnsley
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But nature could not long endure a pleasure that it so highly provoked without satisfying it: pursuing then its darling end, the battery recommenced with redoubled exertion; nor lay I inactive on my side, but encountering him with all the impetuosity of motion I was mistress of, the downy cloth of our meeting mount was now of real use to break the violence of the tilt; and soon, indeed! the highwrought agitation, the sweet urgency of this to-and-fro friction, raised the titillation on me to its height; so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end.
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
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The trees, which are of magnificent size, are left to grow naturally; -- the Isar, which is turned into it, flows in more than one stream with its mountain impetuosity; the lake is gracefully indented and overhung with trees, and presents ever-changing aspects of loveliness as you walk along its banks; there are open, sunny meadows, in which single giant trees or splendid groups of them stand, and walks without end winding under leafy Gothic arches.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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Her occasional outbursts of temper and impetuosity are followed by self-admonishment.
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Either Mr Huntingdon would take things into his own hands, and, acting with characteristic impetuosity and bluffness, would most likely hinder where he meant to help forward, or else he would fail perhaps to understand and appreciate his son's views and methods of proceeding, and would prevent a successful issue by his impatience or interference.
Amos Huntingdon
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He lacks strategy and good judgment, and his quick temper and impetuosity too often get the better of him.
