Word: impetuousity
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He has never been an action painter, spontaneous and impetuous: he feels that the New York school too often confuses facility with freedom. Up at 6:30 each morning, Downing paints with razor and palette knife, turning out rough-textured canvases that resemble nothing on earth.
Like the good scientist he is, Feynman professed to be delighted that his challenge had been met, last week sent off to McLellan a personal check for $1,000. But in an accompanying letter of congratulations, impetuous Prizegiver Feynman earnestly warned: "Don't start writing small. I don'...
Britain's famed 18th century plastic surgeon John Hunter once summed up his professional philosophy in a single curt phrase: "Why not try?" Today's reputable plastic surgeon is less impetuous. Aware that he often operates within surgery's twilight zone-past the point of obvious physical...
The Committee proved to be obstinate as well as impetuous. The President of the Californian requested that a "consultative board" of student publications discuss the problem or that the Committee exclude editorial policy from its jurisdiction. When the Committee refused, the editors of all student publications resigned in an admirable...
Henry IV, Part I is the richest of Shakespeare's chronicle plays, partly for the fire and dash of its impetuous Hotspur, pre-eminently for the titanic verve of its waddling Falstaff. Between the two of them - the one filled with chivalric ideals of honor, the other cynically dismissing...