How To Use foolhardiness In A Sentence
- One opposite to courage is cowardice, but another is rashness, foolhardiness.
- My father has a streak of heroism in him that I admire, but that verges on foolhardiness.
- The passing away of Basu - India's longest-serving chief minister whose unbroken 23-year-old rule of a Left Front coalition in West Bengal state is a history in itself - is seen as a blow to the communist movement in India, wilting under fragile unity, political "foolhardiness" and lack of pragmatic icons. INTER PRESS SERVICE
- Life is a precious gift from God, and no one has a right to risk his life in a rash foolhardiness, which is very different from the true courage which does not shrink from facing danger if the life of one more helpless than himself is in peril. Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation
- This man's boldness-or foolhardiness-has been lampooned in the press and joked about all over the world.
- Meurons, Frances used to expostulate against what she called my foolhardiness in making these evening visits; but their presence made no difference to me. Lords of the North
- Socrates had come to regard death as for himself preferable to life; and consequently there is just a suspicion of foolhardiness in the arrogancy of his address. 5 The Apology of Socrates
- Courage in excess becomes foolhardiness, affection weakness, thrift avarice.
- He showed his usual disregard for danger-an attitude his friends called bravery and his enemies foolhardiness.
- Once he got a chance, he could explain that he was only worried about her, that he was afraid that her bravery (better not call it "foolhardiness") would be stronger than her fear, and she would end up in trouble- The Robin And The Kestrel
