" Accepting his irresponsibility, and with all charity to his undeveloped personality, we may note a few other examples of his mental reflexes.

The younger Holiday could not help comparing his own weak-willed irresponsibility of conduct with the older one's quiet self-control and firmness of principle.

It was a longing to find security in the certainty of his self-control, a desire to drift, and let him be responsible, to let him control the irresponsibility within her, the unwisdom, the delicate audacity, latent, mischievous, that needed a reversal of the role of protector and protected to blossom deliciously into the coquetry that she had never dared.

There has been a tendency to exaggerate its irresponsibility.