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  • Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.†   (source)
  • It was irresponsible.†   (source)
  • In Plaszow, I would have been shot or at least lashed for such a blatant infraction, for being "a lazy and irresponsible" Jew.†   (source)
  • What were they planning that would make them so irresponsible?†   (source)
  • "It's simply irresponsible," I said—"for someone your age, and of your education, to go around thinking he's God's instrument!"†   (source)
  • So he resigned the presidency of the Golden Fleece Debating Society, stopped writing his school spirit column for the newspaper, dropped the chairmanship of the Underprivileged Local Children subcommittee of the Good Samaritan Confraternity, stilled his baritone in the chapel choir, and even, in his most impressive burst of irresponsibility, resigned from the Student Advisory Committee to the Headmaster's Discretionary Benevolent Fund.†   (source)
  • But these extravagant numbers were surely a form of self-aggrandizement, and reckless to the point of irresponsibility.†   (source)
  • He ceased to work at his tooth and sat still, assimilating the possibilities of irresponsible authority.†   (source)
  • They said I was irresponsible, and from that day on they never again let me have a pet, not even an ordinary garden spider.†   (source)
  • They showed that I was clever, imaginative, irresponsible, untrustworthy, extrovert, nothing you couldn't have guessed.†   (source)
  • And yes…. your dad was destructive …. irresponsible …. a child.†   (source)
  • Like most veteran Everest guides, Groom believed that although it was acceptable-and, indeed, aesthetically preferable-to do without bottled oxygen when climbing on one's own, it would be extremely irresponsible to guide the peak without using it.†   (source)
  • He berates Lourdes for leaving him with a father she knew was irresponsible.†   (source)
  • It's so irresponsible."†   (source)
  • Even though she can be very irresponsible at times, it's only with things like bills and the groceries.†   (source)
  • Irresponsible.†   (source)
  • She's irresponsible and slightly eccentric, and she's a me.†   (source)
  • Other workers were just young men: irresponsible and living for today.†   (source)
  • Congressman Tom Lantos, whose subcommittee conducted the meatpacking inquiry, called IBP "one of the most irresponsible and reckless corporations in America."†   (source)
  • He's suspended CAT class because Mark Brittain's father came to the school to complain, charging I was irresponsible in my handling of 'sensitive material,' leading to Mark's suicide attempt.†   (source)
  • His chronic cough had taken on a jagged edge, an element of irresponsibility.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, my duty in this instance was quite clear, and as I saw it, there was nothing to be gained at all in irresponsibly displaying such personal doubts.†   (source)
  • He thinks you're irresponsible.†   (source)
  • To let her loose upon an unsuspecting public would be irresponsible to the last degree, as it would merely afford her the opportunity of gratifying her bloodthirsty tastes.†   (source)
  • "The fact of the matter is, we've been irresponsible," Marybeth continues.†   (source)
  • It was said they were comparing texts and, irresponsibly, the texts were named.†   (source)
  • The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became.†   (source)
  • "And it's irresponsible to even consider any of that."†   (source)
  • I think it would be irresponsible, as a physician, to take him.†   (source)
  • After much passing around of money Cousin Joshua was moved across the tracks and placed in state accommodations for the irresponsible, where he remained for the rest of his days.†   (source)
  • The idea of telekinesis itself has been a bitter pill for the scientific community to swallow, with its horror-movie trappings of ouija boards and mediums and table rappings and floating coronets; but understanding will still not excuse scientific irresponsibility.†   (source)
  • He does not seem to be capable of learning from experience, and he shows an unusual pattern of intermittent periods of productive activity followed by patently irresponsible actions.†   (source)
  • Up until now Moody seemed to have forgotten that there was a world outside of Iran, but his irresponsibility began to catch up with him, even from half a world away.†   (source)
  • Yet, his lust remained, and rose, chafing within and battering against the labyrinth of his bewilderment; his lust was unaccustomedly arrogant and cruel and irresponsible, and yet there was mingled in it a deep and incomprehensible tenderness: he did not want to cause Eric pain.†   (source)
  • In these ash heaps lay a lost and delightful world, the world of my childhood, the world of sweet and irresponsible days atQunu and Mqhekezweni.†   (source)
  • The Big Nurse talks to McMurphy, soft and patient, about the irresponsible thing he did, the childish thing, throwing a tantrum like a little boy-aren't you ashamed?†   (source)
  • They're being irresponsible, and I'm not going to be accountable for them.'†   (source)
  • Teens are always going to be fascinated by people like Maggie the au pair and Billy G. and Pam P., and they should be fascinated by people like that, if only to get past the adolescent fantasy that to be rebellious and truculent and irresponsible is a good way to spend your life.†   (source)
  • "Even if the proven charges did not have merit enough," the president was saying, "the irresponsible and criminal boldness with which the accused drove his subordinates on to a useless death would be enough to deserve capital punishment."†   (source)
  • Of course, I regard this possibility as remote, but is it not irresponsible to take such chances?†   (source)
  • Some might think it irresponsible--Captain Call, for one, certainly would--but he could not stand all night in chunking distance of Lorena and not go see her.†   (source)
  • "I can't believe she was so irresponsible."†   (source)
  • My niang cursed me for my irresponsible behavior, though, because my clothes were always either torn or dirty or both.†   (source)
  • This kind of irresponsibility made my ulcer ache, but apparently Lucas and John Miller were used to it.†   (source)
  • At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.†   (source)
  • An artist, stealing paints from a store, for example, imagines himself to have made an inevitable but immoral decision, and then he sees ' self as fallen from grace; what follows is despair and petty irresponsibility, as if morality were a great glass world which can be utterly shattered by one act.†   (source)
  • Yossarian blazed with hatred and wrath when he saw he was the victim of an irresponsible joke that had destroyed his sleep and reduced him to a whimpering hulk.†   (source)
  • He knew that the move would appear irresponsible, inexcusable to the man.†   (source)
  • It was completely thoughtless and irresponsible and selfish.†   (source)
  • There is the issue of irresponsibility to be considered.†   (source)
  • That was due to irresponsible fishing on the part of the Orsians?†   (source)
  • Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial.†   (source)
  • As always, Blomkvist was irresponsible and kept vanishing on another of his mysterious trips, coming and going as he pleased.†   (source)
  • Burke adamantly opposed such English enthusiasm for the revolution in France as espoused by Richard Price, which he thought woefully irresponsible, and the speech, which was published in full in New York in the Gazette of the United .†   (source)
  • As unnerving and irresponsible as Patsy was, it was I who had held on.†   (source)
  • Pilar is irresponsible, self-centered, a bad seed.†   (source)
  • Irresponsible, his counselors had said in school.†   (source)
  • That amphibian's power is disgusting and irresponsible!†   (source)
  • But the Kennedys, John and Bobby, are annoyed with Johnson, especially when he speaks irresponsibly.†   (source)
  • I think he's an irresponsible upstart who's been grossly overrated.†   (source)
  • That's why they moved every year, and folks that didn't understand, called them "shiftless," which Granpa said was another damn word, like calling them "irresponsible," fer having so many young'uns—which they had to do.†   (source)
  • For most of her life children flocked to La11a, for she was the most casual and irresponsible of chaperones, being far too busy with her own life to oversee them all.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, the government cannot suppress journalists, no matter how reckless or irresponsible they become with conjecture and fabrication.†   (source)
  • On top of that, her mom's kind of freaky and irresponsible, plus she drinks too much and forgets to pay her bills.†   (source)
  • Irresponsibility leads to censure and to punishment.†   (source)
  • Oh, what a dumb, dumb idiot I've been and unappreciative and irresponsible and conceited!†   (source)
  • Unlike certain irresponsible reporters, the police are more careful, and more concerned with facts than speculation.†   (source)
  • It is ridiculous—pestilential, not to be borne—that we should be ruled by an irresponsible dictator in all our essential economy!†   (source)
  • They dreaded the awful tauntings of irresponsible white men, the jailing, the frames.†   (source)
  • But I dismissed the thought as unworthy, especially in the light of my newly acquired knowledge, through Sophie, of that drug-induced derangement which had doubtless caused him to say hatefully irresponsible things—words it was now clear he no longer remembered.†   (source)
  • It was in this state of indifference and irresponsibility—like the lost Gloucester Road people Nazruddin had spoken about—that I became engaged to Kareisha.†   (source)
  • You expect me to ask, 'But what made them lazy and stupid and irresponsible?' and you expect me to answer, 'The system!†   (source)
  • If they refused, he said, they would prove that they were common traitors, an irresponsible swollen-headed rabble.†   (source)
  • It was the little ones, the Irresponsibles.†   (source)
  • But on the rare occasions when he smiles without sneering, his personality possesses the remnant of a humorous, romantic, irresponsible Irish charm — that of the beguiling ne'er-do-well, with a strain of the sentimentally poetic, attractive to women and popular with men.†   (source)
  • Taft did not believe that this was inconsistent with the conservative doctrine; conservatism in his opinion was not irresponsibility.†   (source)
  • It began to pound profoundly, then waited irresponsibly, hitting in some sort of inward mockery first at his ribs, then against his eyes, then under his shoulder blades, and against the roof of his mouth when he tried to say, "Good afternoon, madam."†   (source)
  • The woman looked at her curiously, and that look destroyed Mary's sudden irresponsible happiness.†   (source)
  • It's time for you to meet my irresponsible twin, Apollo.†   (source)
  • I still think it's pretty irresponsible," Jacob suddenly said.†   (source)
  • 'Meaning I'm an irresponsible godfather?' demanded Sirius, his voice rising.†   (source)
  • I may be irresponsible, but I'm a nice irresponsible, if I do say so myself.†   (source)
  • Harvard doctors from pih totally irresponsible.†   (source)
  • It was stupid, irresponsible, to expose you like this.†   (source)
  • Demonizing irresponsible mothers had become a media craze by the time Marsha's trial was scheduled.†   (source)
  • The person who wrote that book was very irresponsible.†   (source)
  • My greedy, stupid, irresponsible parents can finally pay back my trust fund.†   (source)
  • " 'I know what I'm doing is irresponsible.†   (source)
  • But what we're currently doing to him is mean and irresponsible," she told one reporter.†   (source)
  • This embarrassing, irresponsible brand of journalism.†   (source)
  • He stormed around the office and shouted about the irresponsibility of the handicapper.†   (source)
  • He seemed to live his own life by the same irresponsible motto.†   (source)
  • He looked absolutely free—unthinking and utterly irresponsible.†   (source)
  • It seemed very irresponsible of Clara to simply leave him with the child.†   (source)
  • "Irresponsible"—the word whispered on the soft carpet as her feet dragged up the dark stairs.†   (source)
  • But the shiftless and the irresponsible had a field day of it.†   (source)
  • I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived.†   (source)
  • And not just the cliff, but the motorcycles and the whole irresponsible Evel Knievel bit.†   (source)
  • "You two crazy kids still need an escort so you don't do anything irresponsible."†   (source)
  • My brother is completely irresponsible when it comes to relationships.†   (source)
  • What had I ever done to indicate that I was irresponsible or didn't have my priorities straight?†   (source)
  • And wait until I reveal how truly irresponsible I am.†   (source)
  • "There ought to be a law against irresponsible gossip," said Taggart sullenly.†   (source)
  • It's very irresponsible—think of Esme and Carlisle and—"†   (source)
  • Do you think it's because they're lazy, or stupid, or--as you say--irresponsible?"†   (source)
  • After a moment, quietly, the old man said, "Because they're sick, irresponsible, and dumb.†   (source)
  • It's irresponsible," she says.†   (source)
  • But then his upper lip curled back into a spiteful sneer, and Mariam knew then the futility, maybe even the irresponsibility, of not finishing this.†   (source)
  • I just think it's very irresponsible to start performing spells when you don't even know what they're for, and stop talking about 'the Prince' as if it's his title, I bet it's just a stupid nickname, and it doesn't seem as though he was a very nice person to me!†   (source)
  • She's never irresponsible about me.†   (source)
  • Although I have to say it's pretty bloody irresponsible to entrust it to these goons to handle and pawn around."†   (source)
  • In 1994 he climed it a third time, with Rob Hall; on that ascent he used bottled oxygen because he was guiding the peak and thought it would be irresponsible to do so without it, The South Africans set out for the summit that night.†   (source)
  • '— COMPLETELY IRRESPONSIBLE, AS IF WE HAVEN'T GOT ENOUGH TO WORRY ABOUT WITHOUT YOU DRAGGING STOLEN CAULDRONS INTO THE HOUSE —'†   (source)
  • She, like the Ofuna guards more than a century later, had succumbed to what Douglass called "the fatal poison of irresponsible power."†   (source)
  • Not only was it alleged that the manoeuvre had been a most un-British attack on civilian Boer settlements, overwhelming evidence emerged that it had been irresponsibly commanded with several floutings of elementary military precautions, so that the men who had died - my brother among them - had died quite needlessly.†   (source)
  • Obviously you've made a fortune but it's irresponsible, wouldn't you agree, to keep it bouncing around in such precarious conditions?"†   (source)
  • The way she said it-it was soft and sad at the same time-let me know that it wasn't simply because he thought I was irresponsible, or that I used to hide behind the trees and call him names, or even that I was a member of the Carter family.†   (source)
  • After a couple of hours they returned to the castle for lunch — during which Hermione made it quite clear she thought they were irresponsible — then returned to the Quidditch pitch for the real training session.†   (source)
  • She's irresponsible and slightly eccentric, and she's a "I'm seventeen," I responded, a little confused.†   (source)
  • How irresponsible can you get?†   (source)
  • Andie had always felt young—she was twenty-three, of course she felt young—but right then I realized how grotesquely young she was, how irresponsibly, disastrously young she was.†   (source)
  • "I want to write to the leadership in Beijing and let them know about the irresponsible behavior of the Construction Corps," Bai said.†   (source)
  • The Mobile Press Register headline was "DA: TV Account of McMillian's Conviction a 'Disgrace' "; the article quoted Chapman: "For them to hold themselves up as a reputable news show is beyond belief, and irresponsible."†   (source)
  • I do not wish to criticise the way things have been run in this school,' she said, an unconvincing smile stretching her wide mouth, 'but you have been exposed to some very irresponsible wizards in this class, very irresponsible indeed — not to mention,' she gave a nasty little laugh, 'extremely dangerous half-breeds.†   (source)
  • That's irresponsible.†   (source)
  • She didn't know if her irresponsible feelings for him were motivated by his character or by her own despair.†   (source)
  • We are made to bear the brunt of her irresponsibility, and I for one am considering bringing charges against the woman when they catch her.†   (source)
  • Of course, he could live quietly at the farmhouse, but this struck him as an irresponsible use of his gifts and training.†   (source)
  • Now, I know you're thinking, Wow, that was really irresponsible of him, blah, blab, blab, but Paul knows me pretty well.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln's irresponsible bodyguard John Parker never presented himself for duty or tried to help in any way on the night of the assassination.†   (source)
  • Irresponsible!†   (source)
  • How could you be so irresponsible?†   (source)
  • In that no-win situation—inauthentic, even irresponsible, to those looking for a politically representative canvas; marginalized by those assessing value by how "moral" the characters were—my only option was fidelity to my own sensibility.†   (source)
  • Irresponsible?†   (source)
  • Irresponsible?†   (source)
  • The tide is easy, it's irresponsible.†   (source)
  • I think this is irresponsible of her.†   (source)
  • Too much power in the hands of individuals—surely you would not want…. well, H-missiles for example—to be controlled by one irresponsible person?†   (source)
  • When it came to matters of grave importance, she behaved emotionally and irresponsibly and left it to others to straighten out.†   (source)
  • "It was irresponsible for me to drive for so long without sleep," I said quickly, trying again to smile a little.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, he hopes to contain U.S. involvement, reading his briefing books each morning and praying that South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem doesn't do anything stupid or irresponsible to inflame the situation.†   (source)
  • On the second morning, after many hours without sleep and having put away two pigs, a bunch of bananas, and four cases of champagne, The Elephant suspected that Aureliano Segundo had unknowingly discovered the same method as hers, but by the absurd route of total irresponsibility.†   (source)
  • I didn't want anyone to think of my niang as irresponsible, so I told him I'd cut my arm on a piece of broken glass and that the cut had got infected.†   (source)
  • But then I took control of myself; such an action would be unwise and irresponsible, not to mention dangerous.†   (source)
  • An irresponsible man in public office will more often act in a way that makes him unworthy of trust than in a way that makes him subject to legal punishment.†   (source)
  • Petchukocov thought it irresponsible—reckless—to push his submarine so hard, even if everything were functioning properly.†   (source)
  • If there was a politics of montage, it was more intimate here—not the themes of atomic radiation or irresponsible science and not state terror either, the independent artist who is disciplined and sovietized.†   (source)
  • He's a little unready," Klara said, and the more she talked about his irresponsibility, the more affection she felt for the man.†   (source)
  • Believing I was seeking fame and attention "You're telling me that there were rumors she was irresponsible and won't go to college?†   (source)
  • This was done in part to try to quell the more irresponsible acts of terrorism then being committed by Pogo.†   (source)
  • A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers…. and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible.'†   (source)
  • I wanted to impress upon the court that we had not acted irresponsibly or without thought to the ramifications of taking upviolent action.†   (source)
  • People began to stereotype me as a pregnant teen who is irresponsible, going to get my way because they thought people were going to be nicer to me because of the baby, not willing to continue in school, and even, 'Oh, I knew she was going to get pregnant.†   (source)
  • How can you face anyone after the sort of irresponsible destruction you've perpetrated in that Mexican business?†   (source)
  • Let me agree with you, I was the irresponsible one; for I should have used my knife to protect the higher interests of society.†   (source)
  • He had no desire to be a martyr for the sake of allowing people safely to indulge in their own irresponsible evil.†   (source)
  • He did warn me, however, that he could not allow his students to act irresponsibly, and he said that if I insisted on resigning, he would be compelled to expel me from Fort Hare.†   (source)
  • "In my opinion the speech was wild, hysterical, politically irresponsible and dangerous," he snapped.†   (source)
  • I know that he's a liar, a loafer, a cheap playboy, the most viciously irresponsible waste of a human being I ever imagined possible.†   (source)
  • The shiftless, the purposeless, the irresponsible, the irrational-it was not I who needed them, it was not theirs to dictate terms to me, it was not mine to obey demands.†   (source)
  • "When we think of the natural resources, at a time of critical shortage," Boyle said softly, "when we think of the crucial raw materials that are being wasted on an irresponsible private experiment, when we think of the ore …."†   (source)
  • The capacity for unclouded enjoyment, she thought, does not belong to irresponsible fools; an inviolate peace of spirit is not the achievement of a drifter; to be able to laugh like that is the end result of the most profound, most solemn thinking.†   (source)
  • Now the planners are asking their people not to blame the government, but to blame the depravity of the rich, because I turned out to be an irresponsible playboy, instead of the greedy capitalist I was expected to be.†   (source)
  • If you are now beginning to fear that you are in the power of an irresponsible evil, that the country is collapsing and that you will soon be left to starve-consider the views of our ablest industrialist, who knows what conditions are necessary to make production possible and to permit a country to survive.†   (source)
  • It was always the animal's attributes, not man's, that humanity worshipped: the idol of instinct and the idol of force-the mystics and the kings-the mystics, who longed for an irresponsible consciousness and ruled by means of the claim that their dark emotions were superior to reason, that knowledge came in blind, causeless fits, blindly to be followed, not doubted-and the kings, who ruled by means of claws and muscles, with conquest as their method and looting as their aim, with a…†   (source)
  • He had adored her, she told Elizabeth, and satisfied her every whim, but he had tended to irresponsibility.†   (source)
  • To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.†   (source)
  • Quite irresponsible.†   (source)
  • They saw us as "different" from themselves in fundamental ways: we were irresponsible; we were different in our sexual morals; we were intellectually limited; we had a God-given sense of rhythm; we were lazy and happy-go-lucky; we loved watermelon and fried chicken.†   (source)
  • James W. Grimes of Iowa, one of Johnson's bitter and influential foes in the Senate, became convinced that the trial was intended only to excite public passions through "lies sent from here by the most worthless and irresponsible creatures on the face of the earth" (an indication, perhaps, of the improved quality of Washington correspondents in the last eighty-seven years).†   (source)
  • But in this wild tenderness that lies in wait for us at every moment there is something childish, unrestrained, irresponsible.†   (source)
  • And this vast expanse is Russia, his incomparable mother; famed far and wide, martyred, stubborn, extravagant, crazy, irresponsible, adored, Russia with her eternally splendid, and disastrous, and unpredictable adventures.†   (source)
  • Irresponsible!†   (source)
  • Our boyish, our irresponsible years are over.†   (source)
  • While wars could be won or lost, no ruling class could be completely irresponsible.†   (source)
  • The magistrate slapped his hand down en seguida on this irresponsible rumor of dysentery.†   (source)
  • Pa is a sweet, selfish, irresponsible darling, Scarlett thought, with a surge of affection for him.†   (source)
  • They were acting like irresponsible children ….†   (source)
  • We were a superfluous, irresponsible lot of talented chatterboxes for whom reality had no meaning.†   (source)
  • But the Wynand papers had no policy, save that of reflecting the greatest prejudices of the greatest number, and this made for an erratic direction, but a recognizable direction, nevertheless: toward the inconsistent, the irresponsible, the trite and the maudlin.†   (source)
  • He was just as irregular and irresponsible about his meal times as he was about his hours of sleep and work.†   (source)
  • I wished he would not always treat me as a child, rather spoilt, rather irresponsible, someone to be petted from time to time when the mood came upon him but more often forgotten, more often patted on the shoulder and told to run away and play.†   (source)
  • Kino put on his large straw hat and felt it with his hand to see that it was properly placed, not on the back or side of his head, like a rash, unmarried, irresponsible man, and not flat as an elder would wear it, but tilted a little forward to show aggressiveness and seriousness and vigor.†   (source)
  • …Ramsay greeted them with her usual smile (oh, she's thinking we're going to get married, Lily thought) and said, "I have triumphed tonight," meaning that for once Mr. Bankes had agreed to dine with them and not run off to his own lodging where his man cooked vegetables properly; still, for one moment, there was a sense of things having been blown apart, of space, of irresponsibility as the ball soared high, and they followed it and lost it and saw the one star and the draped branches.†   (source)
  • Hence, whites placed a premium upon black deceit; they encouraged irresponsibility; and their rewards were bestowed upon us blacks in the degree that we could make them feel safe and superior.†   (source)
  • She was thinking with a leaden heart that in burying Gerald she was burying one of the last links that joined her to the old days of happiness and irresponsibility.†   (source)
  • It is, however, true that my dreaming, my tentative advance like one carried beneath the surface of a stream, is interrupted, torn, pricked and plucked at by sensations, spontaneous and irrelevant, of curiosity, greed, desire, irresponsible as in sleep.†   (source)
  • I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another's words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes.†   (source)
  • Then a thunder-clap of complete indifference; the light blown out; then the return of measureless irresponsible joy; certain fields seem to glow green for ever, and innocent landscapes appear as if in the light of the first dawn—one patch of green, for example, up at Hampstead; and all faces are lit up, all conspire in a hush of tender joy; and then the mystic sense of completion and then that rasping, dog-fish skin-like roughness—those black arrows of shivering sensation, when she…†   (source)
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