What is "foolhardiness"

Usage examples of "foolhardiness".

But sheer terror, sheer instinct, and an unselfishness that bordered on foolhardiness, allowed for nothing less.

I can understand your desire to race the horses, but not the foolhardiness of the way you went about it.

The Dogs of War do not court merely safety, but we have not survived as long as we have by garnering a reputation for foolhardiness, either.

I think that he himself did not really know what he wanted of me, so he had to tell me his whole story before I could understand the joke fate or his own foolhardiness had played on him.

With this brief and frenzied toboggan ride, I atoned for all my youthful overexuberance and foolhardiness.

Pleasance and Hope, Desire, Foolhardiness, Beauty and Youth, and Bawdry and Richess, Charms and Sorc'ry, Leasings* and Flattery, *falsehoods Dispence, Business, and Jealousy, That wore of yellow goldes* a garland, *sunflowers And had a cuckoo sitting on her hand, Feasts, instruments, and caroles and dances, Lust and array, and all the circumstances Of Love, which I reckon'd and reckon shall In order, were painted on the wall, And more than I can make of mention.

He was a little drunk at the time, but sober enough to recognize the foolhardiness of lecturing an Abwehr captainwho goddamned well should have known itthat stealing from prisoners of war was not only a violation of the Geneva Convention, but a pretty goddamned dishonorable thing for an officer to do.

She'd had the self-confidence, or pure foolhardiness, to confront that awful man in the woods today and force him to stop mistreating that horse.