The trait of giving little thought to danger

Usage examples of recklessness.

He cut the homily out, and composed the music of the final scene with a flagrant recklessness of the old intention.

She would not have been happy following the drum and she certainly would not have remained long in love with a man who was well known for his recklessness at cards and for his capacity to outdrink all companions.

The board had a statutory duty to protect society at large from this kind of recklessness, and they found Hurwitz guilty of overprescribing and revoked his license.

At best you will see other Dragons gathering to oppose recklessness or unbridled ambition.

With the fearlessness of the innocent child, the intellectual and spiritual recklessness of a heedless scientist or saint, Alice takes her gigantic, apparently irreversible, leap into the world beneath ordinary human experience.

SPIRIT OF RUMOUR Ney guides the fore-front of the carabineers Through charge and charge, with rapid recklessness.

Like his Celtic forebears he venerated words and their power, for filled with a recklessness and gaiety though he was, he was also a man of intellectual vigor.

With three pieces of the gold he bought good seed from the south, full grains of wheat and of rice and of corn, and for very recklessness of riches he bought seeds the like of which he had never planted before, celery and lotus for his pond and great red radishes that are stewed with pork for a feast dish and small red fragrant beans.

And he turned to her, his expression one of recklessness, "Once we've done enough calibrations to be sure the focus is accurate, let's dis­pense with the rest of Honshu's catalogue and focus on what­ever strikes our fancy.

In the early Ahn of battle a common cause of causalities, particularly with young warriors, is recklessness, and the failure to use the shield properly to protect oneself.

The President's closest advisers, having observed the recklessness of the previous chief executive in conducting cov-erups, strongly advised Wallace simply to admit that mistakes were made and make no excuses.

With conditions deteriorating and violence breaking out, to press ahead without the protection of an armed force would be folly bordering on recklessness.

Once or twice he had seen real tragedy come to men as a result of the recklessness of long dinners, many toasts and the instinct to go on and make a night of it.

She wouldn't take such a risk now, though it was not due to the memory of the rage in the eyes of L'mal, who had been Weyrleader then, when he had berated her for recklessness.

But to cobble together his alliance of Party forces, Vartanyan would need proof, more proof, solid, irrefutable, documentary proof, that the act of recklessness had almost brought disaster.