Sentence examples for reckless audacity from inspiring English sources

The financial meltdown also seems inevitably American, a product of the reckless audacity that the French pretend to abhor, but often secretly admire.

Here too, for a while, lived Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanabbī (died 965), who is in the mainstream of classical qaṣīdah writers but who surpasses them all in the extravagance of what has been called his "reckless audacity of imagination".

It's startling, 50 years on, to look back at the work of Mailer in the 1960s — from "The Presidential Papers" to "The Armies of the Night" — and see such unabashed ambition, such reckless audacity and such a stubborn American readiness to try to save the Republic from itself and bring it back to its original promise.

What could propel such reckless audacity?

It was, the historian A.J.A. Morris asserts, "a truly amazing success story, the product of reckless audacity, astonishing energy, and extreme good fortune".

Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question, inaptness to act on any....The advocate of extreme measures was always trustworthy; his opponent a man to be suspected.

Having the audacity to score was just plain reckless.

The audacity!

How reckless!

Reckless, perhaps.

Johnson's audacity made him a legendary figure in Howard's history — the main administration building is named for him — but many at Howard saw his statements and his actions as irresponsible, and even reckless.