Word: wantoned
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...greater tragedy, of course, is that the wanton shooting of police inevitably leads to more violence and even reprisals. Already New York and Washington police have beefed up their patrols in potentially dangerous areas. If the attacks continue, it is the innocent who stand to suffer for the crackdown provoked by the fanatic...
Harvard's liability for the drowning deaths of two children last Saturday at a University-owned pond in Jamaica Plain appears slight. unless a case can be built charging Harvard with gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct in not dealing with known hazards of the land...
Massachusetts laws governing this final instance-in which the drowning victims probably fall-establish liability only in the sense that the landowner must not display gross negligence her deal with trespassers in a wanton and willful manner...
...clear that Walker Percy had emerged as the first major Southern voice in 30 years entirely free of the Faulknerian inflection. That in itself was good news. Yet the particular glories of the book were a tone of voice that combined modern dryness and irony with an almost wanton tenderness, and a languid young hero who drifted from years of daydreaming about love to a gradual awareness of the real thing. Percy's second novel, The Last Gentleman (1966), was also about a vague young man, this one afflicted with occasional amnesia...
This Carmen is scarcely voluptuous. Rather, she is a kind of molting puma, long in claw and tooth, snarling at a world that is not to her liking. Wanton she may be, but she gets no joy out of it; her eye is out for the main chance, for social advancement rather than sexual gratification. Her quarrel with the overseer of the cigarette factory ends in no mere slap; she tears the poor creature's bodice and carves a bloody cross on her back. Her seduction of Don José is more challenge than submission, and when he ultimately...