The heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

"Courage," I cried in English, heedless of the consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason] Reference

June 4, 2006, 6: 08 pm equifax dispute says: equifax dispute referring zeroth compute interferometry Thorstein heedless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Mark Steyn on the canadian health care system.–] Reference

I could not help liking the sea to a coquette, so indifferent and heedless is it to the strange emotions it raises in the breast of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference

By that standard, it's hard to call heedless subprime mortgage credit a social good.    From Wordnik.com.  [No More Financial Katrinas] Reference

I remember this kind of heedless spending in the face of illness; buttoning my fly; showering; dressing; shaving.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Rakoff's 'Half Empty' Worldview Is Full Of Wit] Reference

Pa., showed "heedless" disregard for the "huge risk" she created when she fired her rifle after sunset on Sept. 14, 2006.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

Meshoppen, Pa., showed "heedless" disregard for the "huge risk" she created when she fired her rifle after sunset on Sept. 14, 2006.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

But we were very heedless and in a hurry to be great.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

Then proceeded Cissie, heedless of all interruptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference

He put an arm around her, heedless of the dirt and grease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainbow Hill] Reference

I don't mean to suggest that either is heedless or reckless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hole in Their Resumes] Reference

She could sleep by favor of her heedless, remorseless nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

How heedless are we in youth of all her anxieties and kindness!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

The heedless one with another piece of clothing apparently zipped down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Mr. Clintons] Reference

Liberals contemplate withdrawal from Afghanistan, heedless of the consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [From WikiLeaks to the Killing Fields] Reference

Liberals contemplate withdrawal from Afghanistan, heedless of the consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Week in Review] Reference

The twilight helps me to be serious; the noonday glare tends to make me heedless.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

Yet one walks toward it, barefooted, on the heated pavement, heedless of the heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

He walked absorbed in thought, and heedless of the groups of people whom he passed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference

Deep-seated social and economic forces, as well as heedless bureaucrats, are to blame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Did All The Money Go?] Reference

Something less tangible is also absent: the spirit of caffeinated, heedless risk taking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stop Saving Now!] Reference

"You told me you had not been to a Pantomime," continued his wife, heedless of the interruption.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference

Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: You describe North Americans as "drifting, heedless of our culture's well-being.".    From Wordnik.com.  ['This Is A Wake-Up Call'] Reference

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

He was strongly attached to the present, heedless of the future, and the socialists troubled him little.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

They're a far cry from the heedless excess of the '90s club scene — but that doesn't mean they're spartan.    From Wordnik.com.  [No More Dirty Dancing] Reference

The author of the "Pleasures of Hope," heedless of the duty that devolved upon him, had "confused his brain.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

"I'm not some little woman standing by her man like Tammy Wynette," she said, heedless of the country-music vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Hillary Hurt Or Help?] Reference

Having noticed that the two cabin-boys were heedless, she had determined herself to keep watch over the magazine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

So the Fox-Strangways played their part, remote and heedless forces of destiny, in the meeting of Hardy's parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Thomas Hardy: A Time-Torn Man’] Reference

A heedless generation neglected him because it preferred to seek subjects in strong contrast to life of its own time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

While there should be no surrender of principle, our task must be undertaken wisely and without heedless vindictiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

"Hurt, Percival?" he asked as, heedless of Newall's remarks, he wiped away the blood that was trickling down Paul's cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

There, heedless of first rebuffs, he undertook to realize the third great object of his life, the gaining of social position.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Chester, heedless of his remonstrance, strode across the carpet and laid the wretched child tenderly into the great crimson chair which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

Their love was doomed at the onset, yet they engaged in it anyway, heedless of the numerous error messages and critical runtime failures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Rusts] Reference