With the shift to adulthood come challenges that require not only strength but also the ability to handle seemingly imprudent inquiries about those challenges with grace.
Two weeks ago, Knoblauch probably would have glared at a reporter for initiating a discussion about his future; he repeatedly said that he would be imprudent to think about next season while the Yankees were trying to win this year.
Foxman also directly addressed Obama's comments on Israel and Palestine, saying, "The Palestinians must heed the President's warnings about imprudent and self-defeating actions".
It would be imprudent to generalize about Harvard's criteria for the appointment and promotion of faculty since the policies and procedures of the different Schools within the University all differ to a degree.
Still, when Mr. McCain suggested that Mr. Obama was imprudent for talking publicly about attacking Al Qaeda sites in Pakistan, Mr. Obama deftly parried by reminding voters that his rival once jokingly sang a song about bombing Iran.
I found Benét's wistful poetess there, but I also found another writer, a terse, intense, startlingly imprudent one, who wrote about holding a bomb in her bosom, being afraid to own a body, and feeling a cleaving in her mind.
Worrying about wrinkles is imprudent, because it will probably beget more wrinkles.
"Policy makers have taken measures to slow the rapid growth in credit and at the same time tightened rules about irregular and imprudent activity in the financial system, including interbank bond repo transactions," economists at JPMorgan in Hong Kong wrote in a research note Friday, referring to bond repurchases.
But, apart from her profligate and imprudent greed, there was nothing vicious about Marie Antoinette.
State officials, while sternly warning Yonkers about its "unrealistic" and "imprudent" reliance on large infusions of state aid, came through with a large infusion of state aid.
