Recklessness

Examples

• Then look at the recklessness of your proceedings! Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The inconsistency and recklessness of Traddles were not to be exceeded by any real politician. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Her arms had dropped along the table, and she sat with her face abandoned to his gaze as if in the recklessness of a desperate peril. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Wildeve played on with the recklessness of despair. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• His man drove as if he were charging an enemy, and the furious recklessness of the man brought no check into the face, or to the lips, of the master. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• A certain idle carelessness and recklessness of consistency soon comes of it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The essence of that female, subterranean recklessness and mockery penetrated his blood. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• One is reminded of Palissy's recklessness, when in his efforts to make the enamel melt on his pottery he used the very furniture of his home for firewood. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He walked up to that with an intrepidity and a recklessness that were astonishing. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Typist: Wanda