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How To Use Recklessness In A Sentence

  • Youthful irresponsibility quickly evolved into recklessness, vanity, intolerance of rivals, and drunken debauch, so, by 1827, loss of respectability was accompanied by visible physical disintegration.
  • Suddenly it is not so clear where one draws the line between courage and recklessness, persistence and fatalism, pacifism and passivity, war and revenge.
  • It was inevitable that both would act in the same interests, and command support against putative extravagance and recklessness.
  • Failure is the consequence of laziness, irresponsibility, recklessness and emotional stupidity. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Your recklessness would hardly go that far, and your accomplice was toot skilled enough in arson to succeed, but he has been arrested and is awaiting trial in Brooklyn jail. Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage
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  • All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal, conspiracy to commit criminal damage and recklessness endangering life. Times, Sunday Times
  • They range from the poor state of the roads to sheer recklessness on the part of some drivers who have nigh on abandoned all road safety rules.
  • LAGOS - THE Lagos Police Command has expressed concern over what it described as "alarming rate of death arising from motor accidents in Lagos metropolis" in the wake of auto crashes which claimed five lives which were attributed to the drivers 'recklessness. Vanguard
  • A Nazis poke to peculiarity this bargain to their prerogative along with inside recklessness, Toulon commits self-murder .
  • To which I say, wow, even George Bush's "decisiveness" can't hold a candle to the recklessness of John McCain. Robert Koehler: The Time Has Come
  • If you have a negative character, you are likely to fall victim to laziness, irresponsibility, low self- esteem, irresolution. Quitting- mindedness, recklessness, compulsion and emotional impulsiveness. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • The lads'energy pleased him but their recklessness worried him.
  • I envy her recklessness, the roughness of her unpracticed pirouettes, the occasional clumsy misstep that inspires no apologies.
  • The great danger is that this combination of complacency and recklessness will provoke an accidental conflict. Times, Sunday Times
  • The liberum veto, which allowed any representative to dissolve the Sejm and even to annul its previous decisions, was applied with growing recklessness in the 17th and 18th cent. Calhoun's Defense of Poland's Unanimity Rule, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Aggressive intent is one thing but recklessness is another. The Sun
  • The spread of negligence liability would not have to result in the broadening of the traditional category of mens rea, and would not mean that intention, recklessness, and negligence would henceforth be bracketed together.
  • Failure is the consequence of laziness, irresponsibility, recklessness and emotional stupidity. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • He rather blithely admits that recklessness in a source is a good thing, that nuance is the enemy of good television, that newsmen love news no matter who it hurts.
  • There was a strange, inflamed, flurried, flighty recklessness of activity about him.
  • Despite the presence of bacchantes and the references to wine, the bacchanalian aspect of the scene is greatly subdued, reducing the feeling of revelry and recklessness.
  • There's a fine line between bravery and recklessness.
  • Kingston holds that there is no defence available and D is therefore convicted on the basis of his intention or recklessness.
  • Good luck favors emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence & emotional illiteracy, impulsivity and recklessness are likely to produce bad luck. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Without it they would have lapsed into the old bushranging recklessness, lapsed into the profound indifference which was basic in them. Kangaroo
  • Their short-term recklessness led to our long-term disaster. Joseph A. Palermo: Wall Street and Goldman Sachs Party On
  • His temper and recklessness in such key moments contrast vividly with the folksy image he projects on the campaign trail.
  • His reputation is stained with recklessness and disorder.
  • In the second part of tonight's double bill, all kinds of recklessness takes over him. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rather than being a ‘shining example of morality and good order,’ he noted, it often was the scene of ‘mad recklessness that outrivaled in lawlessness even the worst days of the early mining camps.’
  • The balanced budget amendment was born out of the monster deficits that followed this act of recklessness.
  • The CBN had, also on August 14, sacked the chief executive officers of five banks and their executive directors, for what it described as recklessness and laxity in the management of the institutions. AllAfrica News: Latest
  • Doesn't this self-serving recklessness suggest a character flaw, a lack of seriousness, some failure of judgement?
  • Its mix of rational deduction and wild credulity, coupled with recklessness and topped with a dollop of sheer perversity, captivated her.
  • The difference between gross negligence and recklessness is a legal grey area.
  • In their arrogance and recklessness they are openly admitting they plan first-strike nuclear attacks against non-nuclear powers, endangering the very survival of humankind with their hegemonic attitude.
  • Greed and recklessness had turned him into a breathless popeyed man who couldn't laugh without gasping for air and pleading for more time. Beard
  • It was a long, pendulous, minutely itemed affair, such as the traveller's recklessness in candles and firewood comes to in the books of the Continental landlord, and it almost swept the floor when its volume was unrolled. Indian Summer
  • Murphy's contention that over-zealousness bordering on recklessness is to blame is better, though even his argument contained a flaw when he suggested that some teams were more to blame than others. Tackling is still nowhere as hard as in the bad old days
  • All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal, conspiracy to commit criminal damage and recklessness endangering life. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mr Newman accepts that it was open to the Tribunal to come to a finding of conduct unbefitting on the basis of recklessness, but such a finding would have had a dramatic effect, he submits, on penalty.
  • It may be well that they should distinctly understand that, whatever may be the rabid utterances of a portion of our own press, which almost rivals their own in recklessness of assertion and London: Saturday, December 31, 1864
  • The difference between gross negligence and recklessness is a legal grey area.
  • These unliberated tendencies irritate some feminists to the point of recklessness.
  • But its proscriptions make plain the recklessness that characterises imperialist policy.
  • Whatever the nature of the inspiration, she now suddenly drew herself up, as though indued with new strength, and answered him with something of the same recklessness of spirit with which once before during that day she had cast aside all fear of misconstruction, and, with the sustaining consciousness of innocence and justice, had defied him. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • I mean that the ABSOLUTE indefensibility of it might bring her a recklessness and a momentum which might -- ' The Pool in the Desert
  • Instead, we are now "engaged" and abjectly dependent upon this fascist beast for so many or our essentials and for the support of our currency and fiscal recklessness.
  • The Russian coachman drove us over the country in a heavy vehicle, having a large hammercloth, with a recklessness only equalled in Persia. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
  • Good luck favors emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence & emotional illiteracy, impulsivity and recklessness are likely to produce bad luck. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • In their arrogance and recklessness they are openly admitting they plan first-strike nuclear attacks against non-nuclear powers, endangering the very survival of humankind with their hegemonic attitude.
  • Then they indicated a recklessness that might embrace mischief.
  • If you have a negative character, you are likely to fall victim to laziness, irresponsibility, low self- esteem, irresolution. Quitting- mindedness, recklessness, compulsion and emotional impulsiveness. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Under the old methods, if the logs had to be "snaked" out, the loggers took the shortest cut, and if that cut led through a dense thicket of young trees, the logs were dragged through them, so that millions of young trees were destroyed each year by this recklessness alone. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.
  • That recklessness is becoming more apparent every day, as the economy worsens, the deficits soar, and more and more Americans die in a war that the President stated was officially over as he strutted like a popinjay up and down the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. Balkinization
  • The difference between gross negligence and recklessness is a legal grey area.
  • The "recklessness" is obvious, but he's also very empathic. The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 88 - Making the Crazies and Deconstructing The Hurt Locker (GUEST: Breck Eisner, Director of The Crazies) | /Film
  • If you have a negative character, you are likely to fall victim to laziness, irresponsibility, low self- esteem, irresolution. Quitting- mindedness, recklessness, compulsion and emotional impulsiveness. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • To the women on Teesside he was a heart-throb, a pin-up, while the men of Middlesbrough admired him from the outset for his passion, the hunger with which he played, even his recklessness.
  • I envy her recklessness, the roughness of her unpracticed pirouettes, the occasional clumsy misstep that inspires no apologies.
  • Good luck favors emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence & emotional illiteracy, impulsivity and recklessness are likely to produce bad luck. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Charity was a pronounced element in the show — the spectacle of this strange young soul, in despair or recklessness, chaotically seeking occasions for compassion: taking a bath with a homeless man (“Who gets trench foot in the year 2002?!”), or romancing an elderly lady. Brit Wit
  • Some of this borderline recklessness goes with the territory.
  • The only difference between audacity and recklessness is whether or not you win, and in this case a clever Union officer tricked Lee into making an audacious move that ultimately became a reckless endeavour. A Sorrowful Tale of High Velocity
  • The court dismisses Plaintiffs 'allegations of recklessness as being purely "conclusory" because Plaintiffs failed to plead specific acts constituting recklessness. TheRacetotheBottom - Headline News
  • The lads'energy pleased him but their recklessness worried him.
  • But the scale of the conflagrations over the past few years can only lead us to conclude that they are the consequence of environmental recklessness and bad management.
  • Aggressive intent is one thing but recklessness is another. The Sun
  • He was reckless to the uttermost stretch of recklessness, all serene and quiet though his pococurantism and his daily manner were; and while subdued to the undeviating monotone and languor of his peculiar set in all his temper and habits, the natural dare-devil in him took out its inborn instincts in a wildly careless and gamester-like imprudence with that most touchy tempered and inconsistent of all coquettes -- Fortune. Under Two Flags
  • Their recklessness inflicts distress and suffering upon other people, to say nothing of the expense to which the ratepayers are put on keeping the sanatorium in full swing month after month.
  • But he knew that not att accidents were due to recklessness. THREE IN ONE
  • Such tactical considerations can change rapidly, given the fluidity of the situation and the political recklessness and bellicosity that characterized his administration.
  • ... it makes for a fun, politically oriented blog that's as happy to tackle the inconsistencies of the Blair government as it is the recklessness of a Marlon harewood tackle. Praise for This Blog from The Independent
  • The requirement of dishonesty seems to confirm the need for subjective recklessness.
  • The balanced budget amendment was born out of the monster deficits that followed this act of recklessness.
  • I admire your fortitude, but there's a fine line between being a trouper and recklessness.
  • For a government that prides itself on pragmatism and prudence, this is a policy that astonishes in its fecklessness and recklessness.
  • All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal, conspiracy to commit criminal damage and recklessness endangering life. Times, Sunday Times
  • I envy her recklessness, the roughness of her unpracticed pirouettes, the occasional clumsy misstep that inspires no apologies.
  • At an appearance in the East Room at the White House today, President Obama expressed his outrage, noting that AIG is in financial distress, and in need of taxpayer money, because of what he called recklessness and greed. Undefined
  • He said "astronomic" pay and bonuses had led to a culture of recklessness in the City, which had spawned the banking crisis. bank's report also said the firm employed 6\% more staff in the year to February 2009 to meet demand. PersonnelToday.com - All HR news stories
  • But that is no reason to neglect the risks that continue to endanger public health as a result of fraud or recklessness.
  • It's great to be reminded of the recklessness of Murray's work, but it's also telling when an unregenerate painter, of all things, appears as that period's renegade.
  • To the women on Teesside he was a heart-throb, a pin-up, while the men of Middlesbrough admired him from the outset for his passion, the hunger with which he played, even his recklessness.
  • In a voiceover, he remarks that it's not death he fears but a futile life, but, from his hangdog expression and recklessness toward his health, it's clear that he's already given into that feeling of futility.

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