impetuous

How To Use impetuous In A Sentence

• This evening would not have happened without that same impetuousness. Electric Proms: Elton John and Leon Russell – review
• They are trying to get around Dean's fight-back persona by portraying him as a dyspeptic, impetuous fool.
• I don't know," impetuously; "but I knew I must come to you. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim
• And third, passion can make someone impetuous; here its victory over reason is so powerful that the latter does not even enter into the arena of conscious reflection until it is too late to influence action.
• Knowing the nature of the woman, how ardent, how impetuous she could be, and how full of wrath, he had come at her call intending to tell her the truth which he now spoke. The Way We Live Now
• Impetuous storms and violent shipwrecks occur at sea.
• With a sudden change of manner, his visitant conjured him, in voluble and impetuous terms, to comply. Ferdinando Eboli
• It's part of being young and impetuous and in showing character. Times, Sunday Times
• This impetuous and fiery temperament was rendered yet more fearful by the indulgence of every intemperance; it fed on wine and lust; its very virtues strengthened its vices, -- its courage stifled every whisper of prudence; its intellect, uninured to all discipline, taught it to disdain every obstacle to its desires. The Last of the Barons — Complete
• It may be said of many a man, as d'Annunzio says of the hero of his _Trionfo della Morte_ in relation to the woman he loved, that "he felt himself bound to her by the real qualities of her body, and not only by those which were most beautiful, but specially by _those which were least beautiful_" (the novelist italicizes these words), so that his attention was fixed upon her defects, and emphasized them, thus arousing within himself an impetuous state of desire. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man