foolhardiness

Example Sentences

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It takes courage, or maybe something more like foolhardiness, to take on a role that will be forever associated with the young Michael Caine.

From New York Times • May 18, 2022

“I Know Where I’m Going!,” though, stands for the foolhardiness of best laid plans.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2022

He cross-checks the Frémonts’ accounts of the Western journeys with diaries kept by other members of the expeditions, who acknowledged John Frémont’s courage but saw it shade into foolhardiness that could have killed them all.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2020

Yet our enduring taste for narratives about the foolhardiness of science in the face of the supernatural—in line with Stein’s version of Hebraism—suggests an active, ongoing tension.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2017

Although he was rash, untutored in the ways of the backcountry, and incautious to the point of foolhardiness, he wasn’t incompetent—he wouldn’t have lasted 113 days if he were.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer