Sentence examples for of a wanton from inspiring English sources

Some would say 'twas sure sign of a wanton nature".

"Diana had migrated from the accepted image of a lily-white fairy-tale princess to that of a wanton woman eager to embrace the foreign other," she writes.

Ms. Norton did not express any support of the Southerners' cause, but her remarks were described by the NAACP's leader, Julian Bond, as a sign of "a wanton insensitivity toward slavery and its descendants".

Berlin reported on a case where a plaintiff claimed that a radiologist's behaviour in being overworked constituted "reckless behaviour", leading to the radiologist failing to diagnose breast cancer on a screening mammogram, as a result of a "wanton disregard of patient well-being by sacrificing quality patient care for volume in order to maximise revenue" [36].

Just as the early European settlers encountered indigenous peoples everywhere they went but nevertheless considered the frontier unoccupied, we wipe out ape habitat today because of a wanton disregard for the thin line separating apes from humans.

Its existence was still unknown at the time of Rendall's funeral, where the prevailing tone among the speakers and other mourners was one of regret for a wanton squandering of such extravagant promise.

In June, the government issued a statement saying that the country considered the movie an "act of war" and a "wanton act of terror".

The government issued a statement about the film, in which the actors star as two journalists ordered by the CIA to assassinate Kim Jong-un, saying that the country considered the movie "an act of war" and a "wanton act of terror".

Many New Yorkers, urged on by influential cultural critics such as Lewis Mumford, had initially opposed and subsequently deplored the destruction of Penn Station as a wanton act of civic irresponsibility and cultural philistinism.

In June 2014, North Korea threatened a "merciless" retaliation on the USA if it did not ban The Interview, labelling the movie "an act of war" and a "wanton act of terror", and Rogen himself a "gangster filmmaker".

The run has been criticized by Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., a Philippine senator, calling it a "blatant display of male genitals" and a "wanton disregard of the rules of decent society," and comparing it with exhibitionist behaviors that are prohibited by the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines.