It has been scorned by traditional historians, who refer to the Monk as one who " took pleasure in amusing anecdotes and witty tales, but who was ill-informed about the true march of historical events ", and describe the work itself as a " mass of legend, saga, invention and reckless blundering ":

The Widgery Tribunal, held in the immediate aftermath of the event, largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame — Widgery described the soldiers ' shooting as " bordering on the reckless "— but was criticised as a " whitewash ", including by Jonathan Powell.

The move effectively shifted diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing, thus angering the government of Taiwan, which described the shift in policy as " reckless.

Motley in 1839 wrote a novel, Morton's Hope, or the Memoirs of a Provincial about life in a German university in which he described Bismarck as a reckless and dashing eccentric, but also as an extremely gifted and charming young man.

He claimed, “ the best sites for ‘ earth art ’ are sites that have been disrupted by industry, reckless urbanization, or nature ’ s own devastation .” While in earlier 18th-century formal characterizations of the pastoral and the sublime, something like a “ gash in the ground ” if encountered by a “ leveling improver ”, as described by Price, would have been smoothed over and the whole composition returned to a more aesthetically pleasing contour For Smithson, however, it was not necessary that the deformation become a visual aspect of a landscape ; by his anti-formalist logic, more important was the temporal scar worked over by natural or human intervention.

According to the Dictionary of National Biography the Hervey family have been described as " active and brave, but reckless and over-confident ... greatly addicted to intrigue ...".

" He said that Hillary Clinton was " incredibly polarizing " and described Bill Clinton as " reckless " and cast doubt on those who say he has become a different person since leaving office.

Joseph Maiden described Swainson's efforts as an exhibition of reckless species-making that, as far as I know stands unparalleled in the annals of botanical literature.

The NUS Wales Black Students ' Campaign described Dr Howells ' comments as ' reckless ' and said that the comments ' could add to the barriers facing Black and Minority Ethnic students in Wales '.

One witness described the car as travelling at " a reckless pace, in fact, like a fire engine ".

During a debate at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Higgins described the European Financial Stability Facility ( EFSF ), as “ nothing more than another tool to cushion major European banks from the consequences of their reckless speculation on the financial markets ”.

Two weeks later he returned to Ibrox in a friendly between Rangers and Zenit and was booed after injuring Chris Burke with what was described as a reckless tackle.

Cyclonus / Snow Cat is described as a reckless Decepticon soldier who Megatron likes to let run loose and attack the Autobots.

The Naval Academy yearbook described him as " daring and reckless ", further stating that if Farnsworth lived in the days of the old navy, he " would have been famous for his desperate deeds and hairbreadth escapes ".

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

A willingness to spend as many points as possible on an attribute may improve your chances of a high ranking, but too reckless a spending strategy could leave a player with few points to spend on powers and objects.

However, Cancun has taken some steps to control the reckless behavior associated with the event, and students have been looking for someplace new.

The most common reasons for personal insolvency in Sweden are illness, unemployment, divorce or company bankruptcy, not the reckless spending claimed by politicians and debt collection agencies when they describe the problem with deep personal debts.

In Europe, community cleaning squads have responded to graffiti, in some cases with reckless abandon, as when in 1992 in France a local Scout group, attempting to remove modern graffiti, damaged two prehistoric paintings of bison in the Cave of Mayrière supérieure near the French village of Bruniquel in Tarn-et-Garonne, earning them the 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in archeology.

He did relieve the cautious but capable Joseph E. Johnston and replaced him with the reckless John Bell Hood, resulting in the loss of Atlanta and the eventual loss of an army.

He wrote on this problem: " The originality of the problem is due to the White King being placed in absolute safety, and yet coming out on a reckless career, with no immediate threat and in the face of innumerable checks ".

Justice Brennan suggested that public officials may sue for libel only if the publisher published the statements in question with " actual malice " — " knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.

When Isabella first arrived in England following her marriage, her husband was already in the midst of a relationship with Piers Gaveston, an " arrogant, ostentatious " soldier, with a " reckless and headstrong " personality that clearly appealed to Edward.

In the city, he became known for his heavy alcohol consumption and reckless driving in his new Jaguar car ; he also entered into romantic and sexual relationships with various men.

She was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic and pled guilty to " reckless assault with intent to harm ", serving a three-year prison sentence, including psychiatric hospital time.

The term " Y. O. L. O " meaning " You only live once " have become a mainstream term in modern society and is used as an excuse to be reckless with their lives.

The Irish government followed a similar line to other EU governments during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, with the Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, condemning the actions of Israel as " reckless and disproportionate " and calling for an immediate ceasefire on both sides, while also condemning the actions of Hezbollah.

" Displaying a gang sign, such as the noose, as a symbolic act can be construed as "… a threat to commit violence communicated with the intent to terrorize another, to cause evacuation of a building, or to cause serious public inconvenience, in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience … an offense against property or involving danger to another person that may include but is not limited to recklessly endangering another person, harassment, stalking, ethnic intimidation, and criminal mischief.

Delirium is quick to anger when treated rudely, such as driving a police officer insane for chastising her reckless driving, to threatening to curse Mazikeen into being a half-faced demon madly in love with her boss.

Bob usually blamed his drinking, heavy smoking, poor diet and reckless behaviour on Terry: a view which Audrey and Thelma only too willingly agreed with.

Meanwhile, Rafe and Danny are the only two who manage to get airborne and shoot down seven Japanese aircraft with P-40s using their reckless tactics, including an old game of theirs called chicken.

In the mid-1960s, rulings by the United States Supreme Court made it harder for the media to be sued for libel in the U. S. The court ruled that libel only occurred in cases where a publication printed falsehoods about a celebrity with “ reckless disregard ” for the truth.

Though he preferred that the United Kingdom be neutral in the Cold War, he felt that if Britain should have to align itself with a major power, the best partner was the Soviet Union rather than America, which in Taylor's opinion was carrying out reckless policies that increased the risk of World War Three.

If someone, with good intentions, causes injury by pulling the victim from the wreckage, a court may rule that good Samaritan laws do not apply because the victim was not in imminent peril and hold the actions of the rescuer to be unnecessary and reckless.

" However, in the Bulletin de l ' armée issued the following day, Napoleon sought to counterbalance Kellermann's charge with Jean-Baptiste Bessières's: " The chef de brigade Bessières, in front of the reckless grenadiers of the guard, executed a charge with as much activity as valour and penetrated the line of the enemy cavalry ; this resulted in the entire rout of the army.

* DMX was arrested on August 24, 2011, for speeding ( recorded as 102 mph in a 65 mph zone ), reckless driving, and driving with a suspended license.

Related problems in insurance are adverse selection, such that those at most risk are most likely to insure ( say reckless drivers ), and moral hazard, such that insurance results in riskier behavior ( say more reckless driving ).

Although he had a reckless, unpredictable, and violent nature that precluded him from attaining any court or government responsibility and led to the ruination of his estate, Oxford was noted in his own time as a patron of the arts, lyric poet, and playwright, and since the 1920s he has been the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.

With the most reckless violence of manner and language, he abused the character of the House ; and, after the first burst of his denunciations had passed, suddenly changing his tone, he exclaimed, " You think, perhaps, this is not parliamentary language ; I know it ; nor are you to expect such from me.

The future Emperor appears first as one of the most reckless and extravagant of the young nobles who surrounded Nero.

Janet Maslin in The New York Times said Spacey was at his " wittiest and most agile " to date, and Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times singled Spacey out for successfully portraying a man who " does reckless and foolish things who doesn't deceive himself ".

" The San Francisco Examiner wrote in an editorial, " Cowboys the most reckless class of outlaws in that wild country ... infinitely worse than the ordinary robber.

Over a short amount of time, the influx of young, reckless and ruthless inmates lead Lee Arrendale to gain a bad reputation as the second most violent all-men prisons in the state.

The San Francisco Examiner wrote in an editorial, " Cowboys the most reckless class of outlaws in that wild country ... infinitely worse than the ordinary robber.

Several caves on the hill contain petroglyphs, though some of the most important of these were destroyed by reckless steer.

Most of the generals felt a full engagement against two of the most experienced Protestant commanders was reckless and unlikely to have a positive outcome.

Men of such reckless disposition are frequently guilty of the most horrible desecrations.

The San Francisco Examiner wrote in an editorial, " Cowboys the most reckless class of outlaws in that wild country ... infinitely worse than the ordinary robber.

The most notable example of this is the Pane vs. Ford case of 1917 that decided against Pane in that he was only injured through reckless driving.

In spite of Lane's claim that he convinced the jury that Hunt was a JFK assassination conspirator, most of the jurors who were interviewed by the media said they disregarded the conspiracy theory and judged the case ( according to the judge's jury instructions ) on whether the article was published with " reckless disregard for the truth.

Dong Zhuo was fully aware that his provocative actions and reckless behavior had aroused the anger of many, and he was at a high risk of being assassinated by enemies, so he ordered his strongest warrior and adopted son, Lü Bu as a personal bodyguard, who shadowed him most of the time.

Thereafter, he went down in local lore as “ one of the most reckless and brutal ” of the Rangers.

The frequent incidents prompted The Perth Gazette to remark on " the reckless daring of this desperado who sets his life at a pin's fee ... For the most trivial offence ... he would take the life of any man who provoked him.

Norman Lamont called him " the most politically incorrect, outspoken, iconoclastic and reckless politician of our times ".

But the events of the past two years – most notably with what's happening in Iraq, along with last year's presidential election and other unfortunate events in the region – has left no doubt in my mind, and in the minds of lots of secular Iranians, that the U. S. is behaving more and more like a reckless imperial force in search of new sources of energy and new markets to expand to economically.

Street design, traffic design, and locations of major building entrances that make crosswalks the most logical and practical locations to cross streets are usually more effective than police enforcement in reducing the incidence of illegal or reckless pedestrian crossings.

His major role was drafting speeches, most notably one that FDR delivered in Pittsburgh denouncing the reckless spending of the Hoover administration and calling for a very conservative fiscal policy.