Example sentences for: recklessness

How can you use “recklessness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To illustrate the Kennedys' penchant for "adventure," "recklessness," and "disaster," the Post compares John's crash to the death of Joe Kennedy Jr., in a World War II bombing mission and to Michael Kennedy's fatal "crash" into a tree while playing football on skis.

  • There are two Kennedy traditions: courage, gravity, and martyrdom on one side; recklessness, frivolity, and mayhem on the other.

  • The "recklessness" spin, fueled by talk radio and the Internet, says the Kennedys seek "adventure," "live close to the edge," are "wild" and "addicted to risk," and have a "dangerous streak."

  • Film director Stanley Kubrick died . Obituaries recalled his movies' eight Academy Awards, focusing on Dr. Strangelove , A Clockwork Orange , and 2001: A Space Odyssey , also mentioning Lolita and The Shining . Commentators debated the significance of the bleak fantasies in which he portrayed human recklessness, madness, brutality, murder, and nuclear holocaust.

  • Two attitudes to avoid: recklessness and excessive caution.


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