(1) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(2) All I wanted to know was that this was not a hereditary disease – partly, I suppose, because I was so young and carefree and optimistic.
(3) It's hard to think of a musician who better represents the " gringo " vision of carefree, swinging 1960s Rio than Jorge Ben Jor, who back then wrote a slew of jazzy, swinging sambas and bossas, many of which are now considered Brazilian standards.
(4) We shouldn’t beat ourselves up about one-night stands or walks of shame.” The idea of your 20s as a carefree period before a woman starts her “real” life of monogamy and child-bearing is not a new one: see the end of John Cleland’s Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure , published in 1748, where 300 pages of masturbation, orgies and lesbianism are followed by a “tail-piece of morality”, and protagonist Fanny Hill explains that she is much happier now she’s put all that filthy shagging behind her.
(5) Since the extravert is the more sociable, excitement-seeking, carefree individual, while the introvert is more retiring, aloof and introspective, it would be worthwhile in future research to determine whether the dominance, vs. submissive or the high vs. low status dimension is the essential correlate of these spatial differences.
(6) One way or another the hosts were under a great deal of pressure, playing at home, staging a tournament under a security alert, attempting to live up to their status among the favourites, while their opponents could afford to be relatively carefree.
(7) Inside the houses lived middle-class perfection: a carefree existence, overwhelmingly white – Beulah was an African-American maid.
(8) Don't know about you, but I hate the carefree for that.
(9) There were silly, big-salary choices, to be sure, and the press was full of merry stories about O'Toole's wildness, his drinking and his carefree attitude.
(10) Frantzesco Kangaris for The Guardian So we began clicking and snapping, to see where our thinking hands would take us, as the mood shifted from carefree play to competitive panic, with the thought that someone else might take all the corner pieces you needed before you’d completed your Mayan ziggurat of doom.
(11) I didn’t respond to the call to be a priest to have a carefree life, an easy life.
(12) They’re entitled to a carefree youth, I always thought, and I didn’t want to be spreading bitterness and hate.
(13) "I said to George that I wanted to go back to the way it was, in the sense that ours was much more carefree and lighthearted and humorous – in my opinion, anyway," said Hamill.
(14) He has tried very hard to look like this group that he really idolises – young, attractive, social, carefree."
(15) The PIL was shown to be a reliable and valid instrument and correlated significantly and positively with measures of the self-concept, self-esteem, internal locus of control, and two EPI scales: Plans and Organizes Things and Carefree.
(16) There in high-concept miniature are all the dilemmas of virtually every freakout comedy: married thirtysomething or carefree flirtysomething?
(17) My favourite summer memory is not from childhood, but from arguably an even happier, more carefree time – more than a decade ago, when I was a teenager.
(18) Warner went on to make a scintillating, carefree 112, which is 99 more runs than he would have made had Matt Prior not missed stumping him off Graeme Swann when 13.
(19) These new communities were meant to recreate the feel, if not the scale, of an earlier form of the American myth – the small town – where everyone is a good neighbour and lives an innocent, carefree life.
(20) The only question is, how will this couple fit in all those holidays with all the carefree fun they're having?
Careless
Definition:
(a.) Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.
(a.) Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless.
(a.) Without thought or purpose; without due care; without attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression.
(a.) Not receiving care; uncared for.
Example Sentences:
(1) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(2) Failure to check, lack of vigilance and inattention or carelessness were the most frequently associated factors with the rest of the reports.
(3) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
(4) "In this era where we see growing open-mindedness, his actions are muddle-headed and careless," said the letter, which was briefly posted to the internet before it was taken down by censors .
(5) Vardy has plenty of other qualities, however, and he played a key role in Leicester’s equaliser early in the second half, racing clear on the right after Wanyama’s careless header and crossing for Musa, who forced the ball past Hugo Lloris at the far post.
(6) His carelessness had returned the ball to City's opponents inside his own half twice in the opening quarter of an hour.
(7) Concerning the 16 year-old girl the authors think that medical malpractice and carelessness of the parents were involved.
(8) By random assignment, the nurses read one of four versions of the rape which varied in terms of whether or not the victim locked her car door (carelessness manipulation) and time of attack (5:00 p.m. or midnight).
(9) Like many public figures on the left, he has been far too careless with his favours.
(10) He claims the network’s carelessness and conduct with its Cairo-based staff resulted in harassment of al-Jazeera staff, raids on the office and eventually the detention and imprisonment of several staffers.
(11) As it is, the team were careless with a comfortable lead in Jamaica (but got away with it ), formidable in their movement against an outclassed Panama , and struggled to get going in the heat and altitude of their game against Honduras .
(12) People usually don't make silly, careless mistakes when they're motivated and working in a positive environment.
(13) Seventy seven percent of the exposures were seen during routine care, 28.5% were perceived as due to personal carelessness, 19.9% due to patient agitation, 33.5% as inherent to the procedure and 8.9% to abandonment of material.
(14) Most burns occurred in teenage boys (6) and all but 1 were the result of carelessness on the part of the burn victim.
(15) Blatant carelessness, misuse or improper maintenance of equipment, and intoxication are analyzed as contributory factors.
(16) What has happened, of course, is something entirely different – and the callously careless attitude of western governments to this has given the impression of western complicity to many (who are already steeped in a culture of conspiracy theories) in Iraq and the Middle East.
(17) As a German European, I am disappointed by the mixture of incapability and carelessness back home.
(18) The government’s response has been shamefully poor, marked by carelessness for the lives of ordinary people, and only really concerned with damage control and trying to ensure this does not affect the flow of investment,” said Edgardo Buscaglia, a leading expert in international organised crime and political corruption around the world.
(19) Wenger talked about his side committing "easy mistakes" and he might easily have been referring to Özil's carelessness before the goal that made it 3-1, playing a senseless pass to Mathieu Flamini, then watching Fernandinho steal in to bend a wonderful shot beyond Wojciech Szczesny.
(20) "From being driven, careless, impulsive, the new breed of shopper is a very careful spender.