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For various reasons—his kids are off from school during the robbery; his getaway driver drops out; his hotheaded gunman arouses suspicion—his haphazard caper doesn’t lead to riches.
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Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
The Irish independence-supporting Fenians, represented primarily by hotheaded oaf Paddy (Seamus O’Hara) and his more strategically minded sister Ellen (Niamh McCormack), loathe the family’s conservative unionist policies.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
As the opposite of the hotheaded Ne Zha, Ao Bing fittingly has ice powers.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Johnny and Ben are usually depicted as bickering surrogate brothers, the hotheaded youngster and the curmudgeonly elder; Susan is a pragmatic force, with Reed often lost in his own world.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 July 2025
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And, by all accounts, his impetuous pardon of Cuellar may backfire.—
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Kelly’s impetuous decision to drop everything and travel abroad forces his loyal team, including publicist Liz (Laura Dern) and agent Ron (Sandler), among others, to join him.—
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His reckless decision to escalate the aggression and number of immigration agents is a causal factor, regardless of the outcome of an investigation into this tragic death.—
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Cowards habitually flee what is painful, while someone who acts bravely because of excessive confidence is simply reckless.—
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Instead of impulsive moves, energy goes toward goals that require patience and endurance.—
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That fear can contribute to impulsive decisions, overtrading, and emotional fatigue - outcomes sometimes interpreted as personal failure rather than a response to the way risk is structured.—
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From start to finish, the Red Sox deployed a careless, thoughtless, and passive stratagem.—
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To do a lot less foolish, thoughtless, stupid, idiotic things.—
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Despite his short and stocky appearance, garnering comparisons to a fire plug, La Guardia was loud and brash.—
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While Perfidia is loud, brash, emotional, reckless, and boisterous, Deandra is methodical, focused, and intentional.—
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Additional charges included negligently driving a vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner, endangering property, life, and person, as well as recklessly driving a vehicle in wanton and willful disregard for the safety of persons and property.—
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Systemic risk: The combination of low interest rates and an expanding economy encourages speculation and imprudent risk taking.—
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Maybe, though, the Nasdaq 100 had simply got too extended, momentum strategies too crowded, fast-money too overconfident in low-quality stocks and valuations too elevated to withstand a normal rally pause?—
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Malek, wild-eyed as ever, portrays Kelley as an overconfident opportunist who is more than willing to cross lines to gain Goering’s trust.—
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There is another reason why lifting the deposit insurance limits is foolhardy.—
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In Pynchon’s best works, his bleakness is brightened, in both senses—illuminated and made lighter—by the sweep of his vision and his affection for his fallible, foolhardy, well-meaning, wildly outmatched main characters.—
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“Hotheaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hotheaded. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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