What's the difference between impetuousness and prudence?

Impetuousness


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was one of at least half a dozen such unionist experiments, with a variety of partners, which foundered on the rocks of the would-be partners' infirmity of purpose, fear, suspicion and disdain of this bizarre, arrogant, impetuous upstart.
  • (2) The Fabian Beatrice Webb used to try to cheer her more impetuous colleagues with the thought of the inevitability of gradualism, but nowadays she is looking a little hasty.
  • (3) One patient acts impetuously while another seems to have lost his spontaneity.
  • (4) The young Yorkist King Edward IV's impetuous union with the beautiful Elizabeth Woodville didn't produce such an immediate bloodbath in 15th-century England, but its eventual consequences – dead princes in the Tower, a usurping king slaughtered at Bosworth and the coming of the Tudors – were scarcely less cataclysmic: the Plantagenets, like the Starks, wiped out by their enemies.
  • (5) They are not, generally, short, pushy, vulgar, uncultured, impetuous, shamelessly admiring of money and those who have it, or married – three months after divorcing his last wife, two months after meeting the new one – to ex-supermodels whose past conquests reportedly include Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger.
  • (6) Gayle’s second booking duly arrived just before the break, his impetuousness again getting the better of him as he fractionally mistimed a lunge on Cheikhou Kouyaté.
  • (7) So you have a self-selected sample of impetuous people, thinking … well, I don't know what they were thinking because they wouldn't say.
  • (8) Because of the impetuous nature of some crack-related sexual activity and because 76% of respondents acknowledged that they were either "very worried" or "somewhat worried" that they might get acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, it is possible that a program of widespread distribution of condoms in neighborhoods where crack use is prevalent might make it possible for the worried, impulsive crack user to practice "safer sex."
  • (9) On introspective examination, these cardiac patients showed an increased feeling of inferiority and of basic anxiety and a more impetuous behaviour as their way of self-protection, but a reduced need for independence due to parental overprotection was not confirmed.
  • (10) Any opportunities for tracing up etiologic factors and exerting therapeutic influence, if at all, will be restricted to initial stages of the, otherwise, impetuous development.
  • (11) Smokers, regardless of intensity of habit, report that they are more defiant, impetuous, thrill-and-danger seeking, emotionally labile and preoccupied with oral concerns that are non and former smokers.
  • (12) True, young people tend to be more open, straightforward and impetuous than older ones.
  • (13) "His relationship with authority is linked to the way he constantly had to duck and dive against the impetuous, authoritarian character of his father.
  • (14) The peak of trypomastigotes with the kinetoplast deprived of obviously stained RNA precedes the impetuous increase of parasitemia.
  • (15) Perhaps with a cry of "Put your dukes up, Obama", as the impetuous hothead hurdles over seats to uphold the family honour.
  • (16) Controversial and impetuous in his youth, he matured into a world-class social historian and remained impetuous to the end.
  • (17) Similarly, the developers of chemicals complain that EU regulation kills impetuous to develop acceptable alternatives.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Once upon a time, his supporters adored this kind of impetuous display, for it showcased Trump’s authenticity.
  • (19) "She's very careful and thoughtful, not impetuous and won't have made this decision quickly."
  • (20) More recently it was Sarkozy, too, who made all the early running over Libya: taking a highly impetuous gamble by recognising the rebels, persuading a reluctant US to come in, flying missions over Libyan soil before anyone else got airborne, supplying arms, and calling two separate summits at the Elysée.

Prudence


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The arches can be restored with atraumatic fixed prostheses but prudence is required.
  • (2) With every year and every budget its continued use was an annual testament to dependability, continuity and fiscal prudence.
  • (3) The unexpected presence of this previously unknown ADH variant in livers of M. nemestrina demonstrates the need for prudence in assignment of ADH isozymes.
  • (4) Although studies to date have failed to show conclusively that nurses and pharmacists are at risk to the carcinogenic, genotoxic and reproductive effects of these agents, prudence would dictate that every effort be taken to minimize their exposure during the handling and disposal of antineoplastic drugs.
  • (5) Until these data are available, we must maintain prudence in the selection (design) of premedicant regimens and carefully monitor all children receiving these "cocktails."
  • (6) Rather than get rid of the baby with the bathwater, could we not link morality with prudence and target abusive claims?
  • (7) He has six children: Prudence, from his first marriage, to Patricia; three by his second wife, Anna, who he divorced in 1999; and two young children with his current wife, Wendi.
  • (8) With care and prudence, many of these lesions can be successfully excised, or at least managed, so that the effect of these sometimes devastating lesions can be ameliorated.
  • (9) The Glazers must've expected that they were getting a wee, ginger, fledgling Ferguson; David Moyes surely imagined that the great day had come after years of stability and prudence at Goodison Park, frugally guarding the Toffees, he was finally to be given the reigns of the all-conquering devils.
  • (10) When using topical methods, prudence should prevail to avoid ingestion of fluoride.
  • (11) An appeal is made for prudence and not hysteria in relation to the use of mineral fibres of all types.
  • (12) And with the return of big-spending policies to combat the downturn, we have the tearing-up of the early Brown emphasis on prudence.
  • (13) We suggest that, though some prudence and caution is advised, this appears to be a safe and feasible adjunct in the treatment of cholelithiasis.
  • (14) The problem is very common, and it is hoped that with continued clinical prudence we can advance and improve our treatment modalities, particularly in those areas in which we fall so short!
  • (15) These findings draw attention to the cardiovascular side effects of interferon-alpha and advise prudence in high-risk patients.
  • (16) Odey, a veteran City agitator who has picked fights ranging from opposition to Railtrack's nationalisation to "shorting" the shares of struggling banks, was once married to Murdoch's oldest daughter, Prudence.
  • (17) "That is going to take some time, some care, and some prudence."
  • (18) Up the date any response is noted but the authors think that some prudence is necessary in the evaluation of the results especially because of the incomplete removal of disc in young patients.
  • (19) For this reason the authors recommend prudence and avoidance of very strong treatment.
  • (20) Appalling way to run an economy no wonder many top EU countries laugh at our so called economic "prudence".