There is a certain gayety which springs from mere recklessness, and is sister to despair.

I think that I wouldn't grieve at mankind's suicide through sheer evilness of heart, or through mere recklessness.

Well, I didn't live like that in mere recklessness; I knew I was preparing myself for remunerative work.

Is this not mere recklessness?

The horse mistook it for a signal, and it was two minutes before the speed was reduced to mere recklessness.

Men do fight, no doubt, from mere recklessness, from hope of plunder or glory; and sometimes they have been scourged to it.

So much defiant eccentricity and such an outspoken scorn for mankind seemed to point to mere recklessness of judgment, the bravado of guilt.

Was it in her adorable simplicity, or in the mere recklessness of her youth, that she engaged him first and talked about terms afterwards?

"Young man," he said, "you must not mistake mere recklessness for valor."