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These people having no towns, all their wars are carried on with eagerness and impetuosity.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Put it down, perhaps, to the impetuosity of inexperience, and also to unawareness of a significant back problem, which Federer later detailed.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2022
“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
He ascribed a 2006 college essay, and its anti-Semitic overtones, to the impetuosity of youth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
“Well, I be mighty delighted,” she said after a moment, seeming to have briefly regretted the impetuosity that had led her to call him a “pretty” man.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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
The appetite for sleep and for food were confounded and lost amidst the impetuosities of a master-passion.
From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
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