impetuosity
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Argentina defender Cristian Romero has been better but his impetuosity is a liability at times.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2023
These people having no towns, all their wars are carried on with eagerness and impetuosity.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
There is an electrifying, Beethoven-like impetuosity of development to it, but its intricate lines constantly sing out; the Staatskapelle’s musicians seem almost to be talking to one another, so communicative is their playing.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
“Because Anderson has not proved that the 1994 murders reflected youthful immaturity, impetuosity, or failure to appreciate risks and consequences, Washington’s constitution does not forbid his standard-range 61-year sentence,” Stephens wrote in the majority opinion.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
"You shall say that I did it without your knowledge and against your will, and without your blessing, being constrained by the violence of my love and the impetuosity of youth."
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
John Richard Yoho, a young Annapolis-and-Pensacola-trained officer of the regular Navy, who understands the circuitous ways of bureaucracy, tempers these impetuosities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aside from his own irritating impetuosities, Fiorello LaGuardia's worst handicap last week was the fact that for millions in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
But for an elderly star left after supernova explosions and other impetuosities with more than several times the Sun’s mass, there are no forces known that can prevent collapse.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
A few million years ago, when human beings first evolved on Earth, it was already a middle-aged world, 4.6 billion years along from the catastrophes and impetuosities of its youth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The daily contemplation of so many classical and noble objects elevates and purifies the soul, and has a powerful tendency to allay the inconsiderate fervours and impetuosities of youth, to mature, and consolidate the character.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 351, January 10, 1829 by Various
