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As Violetta’s lover, Alfredo, the agile tenor Dominick Chenes is suitably dashing and mercurial, well matched to Mpofu in strength and impetuosity.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2023
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
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
Jonathan’s impetuosity, and the manifest singleness of his purpose, seemed to overawe those in front of him; instinctively they cowered, aside and let him pass.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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
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
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
The petrifying influence of surprise yielded to the impetuosities of passion.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
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