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
“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
But the rash young people in “Romeo and Juliet,” both the title characters and some of their friends, die from their own impetuosity.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
She looked at him with a sudden impetuosity.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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
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
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
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
It was in this exaggerated spirit he met his new life, and there was no Mr. Curtis near to check his impetuosities.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
