heedlessness

She’s not entirely careless about her physical well being, but the doughnuts represent a certain heedlessness in her desire to appease her appetites.

Elizabeth Strout - An interview with author 2010

I found myself rooting for Tamara to reconnect in the deepest way with handsome Andy, her childhood friend — Luke Evans makes him a son of the soil who would have had Hardy's vote — and I was shocked by her home-wrecking exploits with a fatuous scrivener, though her heedlessness is exactly the point.

A Grownup Look at Lennon as a 'Boy' Joe Morgenstern 2010

This is the true philosophy of most of what is called heedlessness in children, and for which, poor things, they receive so many harsh reprimands and so much punishment.

Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind Jacob Abbott 1841

But the inherited trait that shows more prominently is a kind of heedlessness, a stubborn belief that the Kennedys can live above the rules.

The Camelot Curse 2008

In a kind of heedlessness, for which I cannot blame myself enough, I have, I have no doubt, mentioned

Dombey and Son 2007

"Well, and you'll all be disappointed," said Hervey with a kind of heedlessness that nettled his scoutmaster.

Tom Slade on Mystery Trail Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

In a kind of heedlessness, for which I cannot blame myself enough, I have, I have no doubt, mentioned Mr Carker the Junior much oftener than was necessary; and have allowed his name sometimes to slip through my lips, when it was against your expressed wish.

Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841

She can help Annie develop habits and inclinations that offset her heedlessness or her lack of sympathy, such as the habit of cleaning up her messes literally and figuratively, of apologizing, and of righting the wrongs she has done.

Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, exploitativeness, heedlessness, arrogance, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, and lack of empathy and remorse.

Think Progress » Ultimate Fox News revisionism: ‘What used to be called the nuclear option’ is now ‘called reconciliation.’ 2010

Yet Lincoln, according to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles, "took upon himself the whole blame—said it was carelessness, heedlessness on his part—he ought to have been more attentive."

Lessons of Fort Sumter Bret Stephens 2011