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Recent Examples of impetuosity
Two centuries later, the Greek historian Polybius contrasted Roman discipline, order, and rationality with Celtic impetuosity, chaos, and passion on the battlefield.
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Michele Gelfand, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
Meeting his current expedition partner, Børge Ousland, required another stroke of youthful impetuosity.
—Kelly Bastone, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2017
His sacred vows didn’t stop Kelly from displaying the impetuosity that brands this city’s fans.
—Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 14 Apr. 2018
Regardless of whether fate led these men to board the train, Eastwood suggests that what drove them to act when faced with a crisis was their youthful impetuosity.
—Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 9 Feb. 2018
Not to give too much away, but Alice’s romantic impetuosity in her youth has fateful consequences that only a show as sentimentally over the top as this could happily resolve.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 23 Oct. 2017
This president combines qualities of Shakespeare’s worst kings: the vanity of Lear, the impetuosity of Richard II, the maliciousness of Richard III.
—Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
But, then again, that’s the sort of recipe favored by Donald Trump, a president who acts with impetuosity and has little time for strategy.
—Matt Giles, Longreads, 31 July 2017
On Friday Ms. Damrau suggested the shakiness of Elvira’s psyche through manic body movements and nervous impetuosity, bravely folding her physical performance into her singing during crucial moments.
—Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2017
Michele Gelfand, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
Meeting his current expedition partner, Børge Ousland, required another stroke of youthful impetuosity.
—Kelly Bastone, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2017
His sacred vows didn’t stop Kelly from displaying the impetuosity that brands this city’s fans.
—Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 14 Apr. 2018
Regardless of whether fate led these men to board the train, Eastwood suggests that what drove them to act when faced with a crisis was their youthful impetuosity.
—Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 9 Feb. 2018
Not to give too much away, but Alice’s romantic impetuosity in her youth has fateful consequences that only a show as sentimentally over the top as this could happily resolve.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 23 Oct. 2017
This president combines qualities of Shakespeare’s worst kings: the vanity of Lear, the impetuosity of Richard II, the maliciousness of Richard III.
—Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
But, then again, that’s the sort of recipe favored by Donald Trump, a president who acts with impetuosity and has little time for strategy.
—Matt Giles, Longreads, 31 July 2017
On Friday Ms. Damrau suggested the shakiness of Elvira’s psyche through manic body movements and nervous impetuosity, bravely folding her physical performance into her singing during crucial moments.
—Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impetuosity
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Back when podcasting wasn’t co-opted by YouTube, the idea was that owning your own successful podcast insulates you from being completely beholden to the caprice of social-media algorithms.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2024
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My rebellious nature, and my inclination for pointing out her caprices may have sharpened her disfavor.Kathy Ehrich Dowd, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
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The first picture illustrates the rapidity with which overall spending increases as people age.Peter Ubel, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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The rapidity with which her end nears is approached with big feelings, but also lots of belly laughs through a score packed with wit and wisdom.David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Birdsong floats softly in the background, adding a touch of whimsy, while Smith’s signature stripes and vibrant ornaments transform the tree into a visual masterpiece.Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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The night felt cathartic for those who have had their hearts broken, and Carpenter delivered a great balance of whimsy and passion.Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2024
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Vape shops have spread across the American retail landscape with a bizarre swiftness, seemingly unbeholden to the same vagaries of inflation, customer demand, and local real estate that bind every other kind of storefront small business in the country.Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 22 June 2023
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Third, repeaters should prove capable of swapping this data between nodes in a network in a predictable way and not one too subject to the vagaries of chance.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 13 June 2023
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The third category was a small but influential group of MAGA true believers and chaos agents who sought to carry out Trump’s whims without any clarification or regard for the consequences.Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
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On traditional platforms, content can be removed or suppressed based on the whims of the platform’s owners or external pressures.Gary Weinstein, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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But vagrancy largely remains a mystery to scientists.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
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By a vote of six to three, the justices empowered cities to enforce laws prohibiting camping and vagrancy, dealing a blow to advocates who argue that the lack of affordable housing is driving a dramatic increase in the unhoused population.Ella Howard / Made by History, TIME, 10 July 2024
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What that means is two-fold: a series that captures Game of Thrones’s extensive, fantasy world-building and the drama of political succession and a show dropping on HBO’s premier Sunday night spot that everyone wants to talk about the morning after.Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
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As was the case in 1994, most of the claims that were used to rationalize these horrors were grounded in misinformation, outright lies, and racist fantasies.Eladio B. Bobadilla / Made by History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Impetuosity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impetuosity. Accessed 4 Dec. 2024.
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