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A version of this review appears in print on February 15, 2014, on page C5 of the with the headline: After a Snowy Overnight Trek, That Velvety Sound, Accented by Impetuosity.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2014
Impetuosity startled even his trainer when he won the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland two weeks ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Impetuosity had to be chastened and disciplined into quiet self-control.
From Personal Friendships of Jesus by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)
Impetuosity, vividness, a certain absoluteness and urgency in her demands, marked her in the eyes of all who came in contact with her.
From Robert Browning by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
His Fire, Spirit, and Exuberance of Imagination gave an Impetuosity to his Pen: His Ideas flow’d from him in a Stream rapid, but not turbulent; copious, but not ever overbearing its Shores.
From Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Dick, Hugh G.
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