Rashness

Rashness, unbelievable and incomprehensible rashness, to use the word "kamikaze" to describe the "technology" of allied aviation.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: A Reply -- With Regret -- to Claude Lanzmann Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

I had just gotten to his favorite lines—Rashness in a leader causes failure; the sailor of a ship is calm, wise at the proper time.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

Temptations, to which we too often submit, thro 'our Rashness or

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

Now the King, as I told you before, wanted only a fair Occasion to be rid of Piso, so would not let slip this which offer'd; but for his Rashness in striking in the Court, took away all his Commissions, both as General and Captain of the Guard, and divested him of all Honour and

Exilius 2008

Thus was this young Lady deliver'd out of that Ocean of Disgrace, into which her Folly and Rashness had cast her; and for an Augmentation of

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

Thus was this young Lady deliver'd out of that Ocean of Disgrace, into which her Folly and Rashness had cast her; and for an Augmentation of

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

Sorrow, in the Death of his Son, whose only Fault was loving me too well, of which I am now most sensible, and too late repent my Rashness; and for

Exilius 2008

Rashness in a leader, as in a pilot, causeth shipwreck; who knoweth when to be quiet is a wise man.

The Suppliants 2008

Posture of Defence: Which was a Rashness Fabius would not have been guilty of, had he had a generous vertuous Opposite; but the unworthy

Exilius 2008

Temptations, to which we too often submit, thro 'our Rashness or

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008