The heedless optimism that characterized the initial period of Montana's twentieth-century homesteading was in the air. |
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Meanwhile we are not heedless of the hardships and worries that accompany the conquest of inflation. |
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The heedless pursuit of profit can hurt the environment and conflict with other social values. |
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When it comes to gifts the bottom line is to exercise gingerliness, high esteem and fervency heedless of the item or its price. |
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They swarm on to the roads, heedless of the rush-hour traffic, defying drivers to confront their rebellion against road safety. |
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She headed out, almost blindly towards the market place, heedless of the glances that anyone gave her for her brusque, regal manner. |
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Taxis were rushing in their usual heedless manner, splashing walls of water over the poor people who were braving the flooded intersection. |
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Whence this peculiar congeries of views, advanced with supreme self-confidence and heedless inattention to fact? |
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The film refuses to budge from its masculine perspective in which the woman appears a heedless wimp. |
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It eliminated all pauses for inspiration, and freed heedless flights of fancy. |
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They leave the pundits gaping at their heedless disregard for the Governing Class. |
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He jammed the truck into first, heedless of the grinding gears, and drove recklessly off the road. |
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This last sentence, with its message of heedless progress, becomes a sort of recurring motif throughout the book. |
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Amy sat in deep thought, heedless of the laughter, jokes, and stories of the people around her. |
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There are circular tables, in the center, candles in the center, burning merrily away, heedless of the storm and winds that buffet this building. |
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Allow taxpayers to retain more of what they earn and those heedless sinners would only fill their homes with even more immoral gizmos. |
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Rathbone therefore found herself cast in the role of the profligate American, heedless of the future and neglectful of the past. |
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Many of them, heedless of the no-wake zone that they were in, were gunning their engines, kicking up huge wakes as they headed straight for us. |
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Princeton students are not heedless of obstacles to combining career and family in the real world. |
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Those opposed to the application will cry foul, and those who have an axe to grind will jump on the bandwagon, heedless of the merits and demerits of the scheme. |
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But his uninhibitedness also takes the form of sheer stylistic bravura, the dazzling facility, note-spinning mastery and heedless creative enthusiasm of the Russian. |
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I could not grab hold of the tail of his shirt, tugging him toward me as I would have if he were still a small boy running heedless of danger into a busy street. |
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One consequence of rebirth is a second coming of age, and both Maura and her children act out with the heedless egocentrism of adolescents. |
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They're heedless of the political economy risks of a weak initial response. |
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Not that Indian and Chinese officials are heedless of the risks of nuclear energy. |
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The President committed to co-operating with or outwitting Stalin, heedless of the Prime Minister's discomfiture. |
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The Bloc Quebecois's sovereigntist thrust must not mean a kind of isolationism, heedless of our responsibilities to our strategic allies. |
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Breast cancer strikes indiscriminately, heedless of race, religion, nationality or social status. |
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Fico might be no saint, but he at least offered a stable alternative to such heedless avarice. |
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The economy's expansion has been heedless as well as relentless, breakneck as well as headlong. |
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But they might just as plausibly point the finger at heedless Arab governments. |
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Mr Assad sent in the air force to bomb the rebels into oblivion, heedless of the tens of thousands of civilians he killed in the process. |
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They claim recognition, heedless and ignorant of any etiquette, chatting away, to insist on their increasing emancipation. |
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Flippant, thoughtless or heedless in the mouth of the speaker, such comments become weighty and painful in the ears of the affected. |
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In this view, Americans' obliviousness ended with an outbreak of nostalgia at the turn of the century, fanned by general concern over the heedless pace of industrial society. |
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Peter had many great skills, but even in his prime he was a heedless driver. |
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That, and what appears to be the heedless greed of a big-time recording company, Interscope Records. |
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For Romney and his operatives to find themselves in this situation is inexplicable, except on grounds of heedless greed. |
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Lives have always been ruined by heedless acts, but perhaps not so loudly and thoroughly. |
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He is a wild, impulsive boy, heedless to thought and temper. |
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Once I'm outside, I start running, heedless of the rain and ice. |
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There's lots to try if you're feeling a little more heedless, though. |
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They swarm in squalling packs on to the roads, heedless of the rush-hour traffic, defying drivers to confront their pig-headed rebellion against road safety. |
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Some were so disorientated that they ran down the tracks into tunnels, heedless of the danger from oncoming trains, their only instinct to get out. |
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It is the aggregate of us all acting independently, heedless of the consequences for others of our actions, acting each for his or her own advantage. |
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The smugglers who callously tap into our resources heedless of the long-term survival of our animal species must be held responsible for their deeds. |
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I did anything I wished, heedless of the consequences. |
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His fiery, loyal character seemed heedless of the failures and difficulties which he would have to overcome in the course of the last 37 years of his life. |
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Protocol No 6, and also Articles 3 and 4 of the EC Treaty, reinforce their dogmatic conception of unfettered competition, heedless of national interests, unbridled by borders and careless of democracy. |
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But verily, many among mankind are heedless of Our Signs! |
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Second is the rejection of the economic model of individuals acting to maximize their self-interest heedless of relationships and emotions, and a recognition of the diversity of human needs and priorities. |
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Nor do I think that evilly motivated men will successfully trick us into surrendering one after another bastion in a heedless quest for an unattainably perfect security. |
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Without even mentioning its evidential advantages, the requirement of writing serves to draw the creditor's attention to the importance of the choice and to shelter him or her from the consequences of a heedless choice. |
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The situation is serious but, because of a heedless attitude or out of self-interest, and at any rate because we are dramatically short-sighted, we keep ignoring it. |
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Second, for each heedless debtor, there will have been a predatory lender. |
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It was that spirit sent Oliver Cromwell himself packing for America, though a heedless and ill-advised and unforeseeing King would not let him go. |
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