Sentence examples for recklessness about from inspiring English sources

Ostensibly he was a respectable, recently retired lawyer but there was a recklessness about him.

"The Europeans have a certain recklessness about them now, a feeling of entitlement," Burke said.

"There was a certain kind of recklessness about that," she said.

There's a kind of vandalism in Harari's sweeping judgments, his recklessness about causal connections, his hyper-Procrustean stretchings and loppings of the data.

Even when she finally declares her passion for the tutor, there's a recklessness about Dee's performance: her knees buckle as she devouringly kisses him, and she proposes a picnic as if inviting him to an orgy.

At times there is a hint of hung-for-a-sheep recklessness about him, at others a bewildered but cheery hilarity ("My favourite tweet was: 'If you were gay you'd have a nice suit that fitted and wear product in your hair.' Do you think I should retweet it?"), and most of the time it's as if he's not giving an interview so much as thinking aloud.

He is interested in scotching the myth of Mill as dry-as-dust, humourless, logic-chopping machine, and keen to show him a flesh and blood man, passionate about his principles to the point of recklessness (and about his wife to the point of derangement).

F.B.I. and Police Department investigators maintain that the younger Mr. Gotti's recklessness brought about his quick downfall.

Gehry's designs, for all their perceived playfulness and even recklessness, are about as spontaneous as the Nuremberg Rallies.

After Powell, still chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1993, described the dangers of sending troops to stop the slaughter in Bosnia, Albright, then the ambassador to the United Nations, burst out, "What are you saving this superb military for, Colin, if we can't use it?" Powell thought the story was about recklessness; Albright thought it was about moral timidity.

Bailey Gwynne displayed recklessness in setting about a fellow pupil".