To do these things without sufficient reason is foolhardiness.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
If one could reckon up the money thus spent on foreign operatic performances within the last hundred years, the figures would prove instructive-instructive, that is, of England's foolhardiness in alienating so much national cash, without any benefit to the nation, and to the direct detriment of native talent.
"The Operatic Problem"
William Johnson Galloway
Farrel wondered how word had reached McNab, and what foolhardiness had led Conal to bring these branded calves to the paddock below Steve's.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard