| 单词 | insouciance |
| 例句 | He tried to tighten up his face into a mask of insouciance, worldliness, and control. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlin had planned the meeting as a trap to try to shatter Holmes’s imperturbable façade, and was impressed with Holmes’s ability to maintain his insouciance despite the rancor in the room. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z His expression had the insouciance and arrogance of the carnivore, for there was nothing in his demeanor where one could detect a glimmer of civilized ripeness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Rishi wondered if he practiced that maddening insouciance in the mirror or if it came naturally. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The staffs insouciance may have reflected the infrequency of acute injuries. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Emperor Quartet play all three with the right mix of witty insouciance and technical accomplishment, but the group reveals its true colours in the Second Quartet. Britten: String Quartet No 2; Three Divertimenti; etc 2010-08-26T21:34:00Z Woodwinds hector and interject with insouciance; wah-wah trumpets bait and cackle; the low brass clusters with snark and support; the strings intone with gloomy sincerity. Review: Boston Symphony Gives Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘Responses’ an American Premiere 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Gao lends Tao a loose-limbed insouciance that belies the simmering anger and frustrations underneath. The best breakout TV performances of the year, from twins and vamps to werewolves and superheroes 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Her acts of rebellion are familiar in their adolescent insouciance, but the sinister glow in her smiles is something else entirely. The “Sharp Objects” finale and the dangers of white women’s tears 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Alas, O’Donnell plays the great writer as a young man with an insouciance that is more smug than charming. Hemingway on film: 6 films that take him from a WWI hotshot almost to the bitter end 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z In "Love and Information," she explores with characteristic insouciance the way an endless stream of data — some of it dazzling, much of it banal — has altered our relationships to one another and to ourselves. A big 'like' for Caryl Churchill's 'Love and Information' 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z His style in this repertory is jocular to the point of insouciance — unsurprising, considering his past works include easy-listening interpretations of Beethoven and Brahms, and a string quartet called “Mister Softee Variations.” For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z In a hatchback packed with college kids and one feckless millennial, the transition from youthful insouciance to settled-down banality couldn’t be more explicit. So wait, millennials aren’t the enemy? From “The Intern” to “Grandma,” the threat of looming intergenerational war has been greatly exaggerated 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z “They convey the poetry of life, a certain insouciance,” he said at a cafe in Paris. DANCE: Choreography With Real Swans 2012-06-03T04:30:53Z And here we thought that George Clooney was this era’s Cary Grant even if, with his squinty smile and no-sweat insouciance, he’s really closer to Clark Gable. Movie Review: Clooney and Company Hunt for Treasures in ‘Monuments Men’ 2014-02-06T22:43:48Z Their soundtrack - a single harmonica played by a man who looked like a busker - added a dash of boho insouciance to the many the casual, loose-fitting, splash-dyed dresses. New, emerging talent kicks off Paris Fashion Week 2012-09-25T19:10:12Z The tricky opening theme was thrown off with nice insouciance, and the finale went at the breakneck pace Mozart wanted. Conductor, soloist make impressive SSO debuts 2014-01-24T17:50:06Z Insulting several nationalities and most of the filmgoing public, “Tied to a Chair” lurches through acting atrocities, continuity glitches and narrative gaps with grating insouciance. | 'Tied to a Chair': Thespian Dreams 2011-05-26T22:56:20Z He talks of his need for a "kind of insouciance". A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley 2011-03-20T00:02:02Z I was too in thrall to the insouciance of youth, pursuits that “It’s a Sin” joyfully captures. TV Taught Me About AIDS. ‘It’s a Sin’ Reminded Me How Far We’ve Come. 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Braff, in his Broadway debut, sings and dances with a winning insouciance, though he overdoes the grimaces in conveying the guilt that traditionally eats away at Allen’s heroes. Theater Review: Woody Allen Transforms His ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ 2014-04-11T02:00:16Z It's not diva hauteur or cool insouciance – she's as self-deprecating a wildly acclaimed author of a hit album as you could wish to meet. Laura Mvula: meet the world's least likely pop star 2013-05-04T08:00:00Z Bangs inch past her eyebrows as she twists her shoulders and then, with a wild insouciance, flings one arm above her head and then the other before taking commanding steps along a straight line. The Wednesday Dance Is an Invitation. Be Weird. 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z There’s a kind of insouciance to the season that is catching. How I Learned to Stop Complaining and Love the Cruise Collections 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z From the beginning of this movement, ornamented with the insouciance of folk music, it’s difficult to resist tapping along with your foot. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z By actively seducing us by breaking the fourth wall in the middle of conversations to reveal what she’s really thinking, she makes us accomplices to her willful insouciance, making the finale’s reveal utterly gutting. Best TV of the Decade, from 2010 to 2019 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z In this way, “2 On” — throbbing and buoyant, full of insouciance — was something of a bait and switch. Tinashe’s ‘Aquarius,’ an R&B Slink 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The golden skin seems to turn ashen, the careful maquillage of a middle-aged but still beautiful woman is suddenly transformed into a mask of fear and horror, and Jeanne’s insouciance curdles into apologetic subservience. | 'Gabriel': World War II Melodrama at Atlantic Theater Company 2010-05-14T03:55:00Z The first work offered was the nostalgic “Romance de Paris” by the French balladeer Charles Trenet, an engaging little song if you have high tolerance for insouciance. Music Review: ?New York to Paris, Paris to Paradise? at Merkin Hall 2012-03-14T22:11:32Z The details of the story, though — particularly the successive marketing schemes devised by the Purdue executive Michael Friedman, played with cleverly bland insouciance by Will Chase — are fascinating in their own right. Review: ‘Dopesick’ Depicts the Opioid Crisis From All Sides 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z A young trumpeter who’s equal parts insouciance and fleet command, Croker recently unveiled a new ensemble: the Big Brother Big Band. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z As the exchange student hawking the New York Herald Tribune on the Champs-Élysées, Jean Seberg invests the movie with a breezy expatriate glamour, feigning French insouciance but hanging onto American wonder. 10 French Movies That Can Transport You to Paris 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z The answer is that they’re as hopelessly intertwined as an aggressive cancer and a set of vital organs in one of the cases that his heroes dispatch with their characteristic grave insouciance. | 'NY Med': ‘NY Med’ on ABC, Produced by Terence Wrong 2012-07-09T22:49:11Z There are wonderful details: the cross-stitch of brisk footwork, the precise insouciance with which dancers cross one leg across the ankle of the other, the tilt of pelvis or shoulders or an entire torso. Critic’s Notebook: A Look at This Year’s Broadway Choreography 2014-04-25T22:05:13Z He'd be dangerously handsome if he ever smiled, but like all of Iceage, he works hard to affect an air of moody insouciance. Iceage – review 2013-02-27T17:47:07Z "Juniper" refers to the gin Ruth drinks in massive amounts, and Rampling plays this feisty grandma with equal parts stubbornness and insouciance. "I like to be right alongside with my characters": Charlotte Rampling on her career, acting "flow" 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Originally produced by Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center in 2013, this adventurous take on a popular if problematic show combines the fluid precision of a professional troupe with the gleeful insouciance of an amateur theatrical company. Stripped-down staging brings clever moments in this long, long journey 'Into the Woods' 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z In his review in The New York Times, A. O. Scott called it “a thoroughly modern confection, blending insouciance and sophistication, heartfelt longing and self-conscious posing with the guileless self-assurance of a great pop song.” What’s on TV Thursday: The Critics’ Choice Awards and ‘S.W.A.T.’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z France makes a strong case for the staggering insouciance of government at all levels, especially in the early years. The AIDS Fight: Andrew Sullivan on a History of the Movement 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Showy flourishes were left hanging like questions or dispatched with insouciance; the finale was carried by mounting exhilaration. Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer/Hough - review 2011-01-17T21:46:01Z In a turn brimming with bluster and insouciance, Buckley delivers a convincing account of what Lin presents as American complicity in the bleak dashing of hopes for a Russia that will play fair and square. Is Vladimir Putin box-office poison? In a new play, he’s certainly toxic enough. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z The style tribes are taking note of her fashion sense, a tentative hybrid of uptown propriety and downtown insouciance. Mamie Gummer Wants to Make a Name for Herself 2012-10-05T20:45:19Z In 2023, the meaning of "The Full Monty" has transformed from an act of liberating insouciance to a state of vulnerability and exposure. Stripped of its cheekiness, Hulu's "The Full Monty" transforms from a movie comedy into a TV slog 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z At 30, Mr. Benz is one of the youngest actors I’ve seen in the role, and the air of callow insouciance he brings to it occasionally had me wincing. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z The older couples meld as if they had been specially machined to perform in unison; the younger couples clasp hands as they move one way, only to drop them on the return with inimitable insouciance. Louisiana?s Zydeco Trail 2011-04-22T18:55:00Z Part of his allure, in addition to his super-sized musical intelligence, is his apparent lack of self-doubt, which reveals itself as a dangerous compound of passion, focus and bloody-minded insouciance. Proms 9, 10, 12 ,13: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Cadogan Hall Proms; Falstaff – review 2012-07-28T23:06:25Z The movie and incumbent candidate celebrated a new form of “defense science,” deregulation and the private sector, along with a certain insouciance in the face of Armageddon. Then and Now: Hollywood Remakes as Election-Year Players 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z The owners buy, trade and consign, but every item is chosen with an incredible eye for style and a dash of insouciance. 4 places we love on Capitol Hill 2013-07-19T23:42:50Z Ms. Midler gave Ms. Ono’s whimsical birthday song, “Yes, I’m Your Angel,” a winking New Orleans insouciance, lingering over the tra-la-las. Music Review | 'We Are Plastic Ono Band': Amid All That Experience, Innocence 2010-02-18T00:28:00Z The artists, who will be familiar to followers of the high-end international art circuit, hark back in various ways to European luminaries like Picasso, Miró and Giacometti, but do so with a knowing insouciance. Art Review: Pondering Sculpture Under the Trees 2010-08-26T20:00:00Z They are ambling, dawdling and slouching to lunches, drinks and work meetings, powered by insouciance rather than haste. Can a Man Wear Mules to Work? 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Also present from the start are the show’s dark humor and the Doctor’s insouciance. | Television: ‘Doctor Who’ Screenings at Paley Center in Manhattan 2012-06-21T21:49:52Z The ensemble plays music that combines cabaret-hall insouciance with bitter harmonies and fractured phrasing. Review: Met Chamber Ensemble Salutes Boulez With a Less Complicated Piece Than Planned 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z He recalls his sexual beginnings in secondary school with a blithe insouciance. Theater Review | 'A Life in Three Acts': Of Youth, Frocks and Politics: A Not-So-Ordinary Life 2010-03-08T06:24:00Z And there is something very appealing about the insouciance with which she strolls through the weights area, past all the men in sleeveless Ts doing press-ups. Has strong become the respectable face of skinny for young women? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z It’s “a thoroughly modern confection, blending insouciance and sophistication, heartfelt longing and self-conscious posing with the guileless self-assurance of a great pop song,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Disappearance’ and ‘True Life: We Are Orlando’ 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Armitage perfectly recreates Mr. Parsons’s perky insouciance, but that quality is sad somehow on a child. Review: The Small Bang Theory of ‘Young Sheldon’ 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z But while Abu-Lughod’s work provides a theoretical critique of Western insouciance and obstinacy in holding on to the myth of Muslim helplessness, Kamaly’s book hands up the lived examples. These Are the Faces of Muslim Women Throughout History 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z That mastery is displayed very differently, with playful insouciance, in “Pas./Parts,” a dazzling cascade of solos, duets, trios, quartets and ensemble pieces that shows the company as a post-“Middle” generation. Critic’s Notebook: William Forsythe Revival at Paris Opera Ballet 2012-12-28T21:15:47Z Rovinj lies about 20 miles south of Porec and possesses the casual insouciance of the artist’s burg it happens to be. Sipping the Pleasures of Istria 2013-08-22T19:03:39Z American insouciance melts Russian sanctimony in Arthur Freed’s 1957 production “Silk Stockings,” the jauntiest of Cold War movies. On DVD, an American in Paris (and in the Soviet Union) 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z “What I envy is not their skin but their insouciance,” she says about white women. Review: ‘We Love You, Charlie Freeman,’ Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Debut Novel 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z On this tune the tenor saxophonist Chad Lefkowitz-Brown improvises with a combination of breezy insouciance and sharp rhythmic assurance. The Playlist: The 1975 Talk About Its Generation, and 9 More New Songs 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “I wanted authenticity, irreverence and insouciance,” said Mr. Dundas, whose vacation home in the Cyclades, so far from his native Norway, inspired the Pucci show. Special Report: In Color and Shape: Who Dares Wins 2010-09-26T17:39:00Z But the wink of the title was his most effective gambit, a way of linking his insouciance to Madonna’s. Pop’s Material Girls, Rich With Influence 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z His "fall" has less to do with agony than insouciance. Sisko Gallery scares up some 'Creatures of the Night' 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z A tableau coalesces out of nowhere, and there’s Sterling Hyltin materializing on top of it, with a laughing insouciance as if she could belong nowhere else. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Opens Season With Gala 2014-05-09T23:25:13Z Eight months in the making, his debut album aims for the sparkling disco insouciance of the Scissor Sisters and Mika, but is stymied by McElderry's perfectly characterless vocals. Joe McElderry: Wide Awake - review 2010-10-21T22:40:00Z Some other Americans saw Woodstock as an outrageous display of indulgence and insouciance in a time of war. Woodstock generation looks back, from varied vantage points 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Dad’s old ribald insouciance hasn’t been extinguished, but it has the nostalgic quality of a retired general recalling former battles. Latino history with professor John Leguizamo, the CliffsNotes edition 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z He had what he described as the “worst feet” in his class, and an insouciance that convinced teachers acting might be a preferable path. Is There Anything Ansel Elgort Can’t Do? 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z I think it found this huge audience because it had a cheerful insouciance about it. David Hare: 'Working in theatre, you're less at the whim of stupid people' 2013-01-20T00:06:22Z The mischievousness continues in the photographs, each of which transforms a Julius Shulman picture of a classic Midcentury house into a jocular collage that pays homage to its source by reanimating its original insouciance. Your invitation to dreamland awaits at Ad Minoliti's exhibition at Cherry and Martin gallery 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z This man who never really knew him, cobbling together crib notes for a eulogy with no meaning, all pious insouciance. 'The clock of his life was counting down' – loving and losing my ex 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z The season’s main innovation appears to be fixed, prerolled cuffs, on both shirts and shorts, a flash of insouciance. Critical Shopper: Do My High School Jeans Still Fit? 2011-05-18T18:29:28Z But the fixed-gear fad here also involves a distinctive nostalgia, Mr. Courvalin said, a yearning for an era of French “insouciance.” Fixed-Gear Bicycles Head Overseas, to Paris 2011-09-28T21:36:29Z At one of these, he meets Maxandra — she goes by Max, and is played with regal insouciance by Salma Hayek Pinault — who discovers his background in expressive dance and hires him for a private performance. ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ Review: Stripping Down to Bare Essentials 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z This insouciance translated to a short skirt wardrobe. Equestrian styles on show in Paris fashion week 2012-03-04T23:49:09Z Season 5's second episode "Mortyplicity" illuminates this insouciance with a bright beacon by opening with, "Christian God is real. He's been asleep for thousands of years. We're gonna sneak up there and kill him." How "Rick and Morty" and "Loki" built thoughtful altars to apathy for everything we hold dear 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z With the restless insouciance of late adolescence, she burbles out a story of a dance-night expedition with her somewhat balky boyfriend, Paul. 2010-01-08T03:46:00Z It helped, too, of course, that they dressed like James Dean, dripped with insouciance and somehow made falling out of Lower East Side bars drunk seem desperately romantic. The Strokes: no Spinal Tap 2011-02-27T00:03:00Z And what you’ll witness is an American movie executed with a French film’s interpersonal insouciance. ‘Vengeance Is Mine’ Review: A Tangled Web of Human Impulse 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z A coherent plot, strong and credible emotions and motivations, convincing performances, visual continuity — all of these things are missing from “Breathless,” disregarded with a cavalier insouciance that feels like liberation. Film: A Fresh Look Back at Jean-Luc Godard?s ?Breathless? 2010-05-21T17:18:00Z He approached the making of his first film with, it seems, a bizarre insouciance, as if he were charmed. Film: Neil Jordan?s ?Ondine,? Possible World of Impossible 2010-05-28T18:58:00Z Costume designer Lori Meeker differentiates among the various roles assumed by the performers with a sometimes wacky, sometimes ribald insouciance. 'Candide' is revisited in a playfully imaginative staging by Long Beach Opera 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z While his bandmates cultivated an attitude of debauched insouciance, Watts, the band’s drummer since 1963, kept a quiet, even glum, public persona. Charlie Watts, the Unlikely Soul of the Rolling Stones 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z He tells the story with such languid insouciance that I initially assume it must be for effect – but I don’t think it is. John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z In moments like this, Mr. Gunn loses sight of the insouciance and feeling that were crucial to making the first movie work. Review: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ Wants That Loving Feeling 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Likewise, his voice purred with slurry insouciance or shifted to a guttural roar that transformed his body into a quivering mass. Dance Review: Stage Where the Blood Is Real and Freshly Drawn 2011-05-01T21:14:58Z She has an insouciance… she wears those skirts and those heels, and while I don't think she uses her femininity or anything like that, she just doesn't hide it. Kelly Reilly: 'I'm not an exhibitionist' 2011-01-02T00:05:11Z The grand, quasi-orchestral textures of Funérailles passed by in solemn procession, and the lighter entertainment of Venezia e Napoli was presented with an insouciance that never let this Italianate spree lapse into triviality. Evgeny Kissin ? review 2011-02-15T19:10:04Z But Mr. Abraham’s production ranks among the most purely enchanting I’ve seen, brimming with an appealing insouciance and full of invention and vital comic performances. Beyond Shakespeare’s Wildest Dreams 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z It arrives with a curious mixture of heaviness and insouciance. ‘No Time to Die’ Review: His Word Is His Bond 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Katie Lee Hill, as an obsequious Grid drone, provides tickling insouciance and executes a nice split. A Spoofy Spin on Ayn Rand’s ‘Anthem’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z “Let them brush your rock ’n’ roll hair,” he sings in this steely song about insouciance. Ric Ocasek’s Essential Songs: Listen to 11 Tracks 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The lilting insouciance with which she describes her misery to Gustav is often funny. Theater Review: ‘The Dance of Death’ by August Strindberg 2013-04-19T21:15:39Z Murakami, whose main operating mode seems to be jovial insouciance tinged with a sly mischievousness, tells of the day he first entered Fuglen to approach them about starting a bar with him. | Culture Klatch 2014-03-05T23:13:43Z They don't just focus on, say, the pampered insouciance of Camden, or the grimy railway arches of London Bridge; their vision of the city takes in school-run mums, paranoid Rastas, pissed-up lads and Sloaney schoolgirls. Saint Etienne: London's musical laureates 2010-05-24T13:10:00Z Respect for the language prevails over visual insouciance. 'Romeo and Juliet' is a potent production still finding its way 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z On the other hand, Adam Cooper, who plays the Gene Kelly part in "Singin' in the Rain" at the Palace Theater, exudes an aristocratic insouciance that one associates with Astaire. ArtsBeat: He's Having a Baby: 'Birthday' in London 2012-06-29T18:30:51Z But no: “Black is slimming,” she says, in a tone of dryly funny boredom that’s Mash’s signature, and which Ms. Parsons captures with perfect goth-girl insouciance. Review: ‘Stupid _____ Bird’ Is Chekhov for the 21st Century 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z They drink beer and prank one another and in general project a ragged insouciance. Critic’s Notebook: Matching Chain Saws, and Wits, With TV Reality Show Carvers 2012-11-28T23:43:54Z Fleeting moments of suspense or melancholy are undermined by Cioma’s unremitting insouciance — no matter the situation, he wears a smirk — and a series of underwritten relationships muck up the narrative rather than enrich it. ‘The Forger’ Review: Hiding in Plain Sight 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z He dispensed romantic advice and analyzed developments in the news, all with the same befuddled insouciance. Frank Potenza, Foil for Nephew Jimmy Kimmel, Dies at 77 2011-08-26T05:53:28Z The book is propelled by the breakneck velocity and scattershot jokiness of Mr. Fountain’s prose, but neither frenzy nor insouciance is exactly Mr. Lee’s speed. Review: Oscar-Winner Ang Lee’s Super-High-Definition Take on the Iraq War 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The main point here is a new-old one: what looks like cheerful insouciance about the art object is actually a deadly serious reaction to the vagaries of war, technology and the economy. Art Review: ‘A Disagreeable Object,’ at the SculptureCenter 2012-10-04T22:46:23Z With “Eurydice,” he said, “the part that came as a surprise to me and a delight was a level of lightness and insouciance in the music.” “Eurydice” heads to LA Opera and then Met 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Color Field elegance plus Post-Minimal insouciance isn’t promising, nor is the fact that the paintings were inspired by memories of New York. Art In Review: MARY WEATHERFORD: ‘Manhattan’ 2012-09-13T21:02:04Z Ailes’s bravado and insouciance seemed like a perfect match for the new network that billionaire Rupert Murdoch was launching in the mid-1990s. The fall of Roger Ailes: He made Fox his ‘locker room’ — and now women are telling their stories 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z She responds to this surprising close encounter not with screams or dazed smiles but with what feels like typical 21st-century insouciance: She takes a photo of them with her phone. Mila Kunis’s Dizzying Orbit in ‘Jupiter Ascending’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Considering fate and guiding hands, Evans decreed: "The future's not ours to see" – adding, with truly admirable insouciance, "what will be, will be." Readers recommend songs about fate and destiny: the results 2010-09-23T01:43:00Z They also found a way to address both the Nazi Holocaust and the dehumanizing violence of misogyny with the same insouciance. The Week in Arts: Sleater-Kinney, Paul Taylor and ‘Synonyms’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Given the director Rick Jacobson’s sheer insouciance, it feels petty to sniff that the couple has the chemistry of tap water. ‘The Royal Treatment’ Review: Heavy is the Head (and Shoulders) 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z So far it’s an urbane affair: Six couples wearing Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung’s shimmering dresses or black pants and tops glide across the stage with youthful insouciance. Pacific Northwest Ballet Presents ‘Debonair’ 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z What they share is a lightness of touch, an insouciance that makes no demands of you but ends up all the more captivating for that. Nicki Minaj's Super Bass and the year's best summer jams 2011-08-17T16:15:54Z Of course, it takes a certain amount of moxie or youthful insouciance to actually make the look work. 2010-02-11T05:20:00Z The veteran designer appreciates Maluma’s disregard for rigid fashion rules and refers to his blind spots as “insouciance.” Maluma, Fashion Chameleon 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z If there were a moment that epitomized the English beau monde’s self-styled insouciance in the face of the London Blitz, it took place in April 1941, at the Savoy Hotel. The History of a Palatial Hotel and Its Famous Guests, From Kings and Spies to Presidents and Poets 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Half the reason Dornan thrived as a model was because he didn’t care that much about it; his insouciance was the X factor that helped sell even the most ridiculous outfits and tableaus. Jamie Dornan Goes Back to ‘Belfast,’ but Not Without Worry 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z You could call such behaviour "cool", but in this instance, another word is surely required: one that mixes jaw-dropping bravery with impossible insouciance, and has – as far as I know – yet to be invented. From Pussy Riot, a lesson in the power of punk 2012-08-19T18:30:00Z "It was borrowed time anyhow – the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of grand dukes and the casualness of chorus girls." What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z But there will always be a committed few who approach this popular horror subset with the enthusiasm and insouciance of successful used-car sales folk. 'Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead' breathes life into zombie genre 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Sloss makes clear that it was she who encouraged him to share their exchanges onstage, encased in his usual insouciance, in the hopes of reaching a wider audience. Daniel Sloss’s “X,” a Laddish Comic’s Reckoning with #MeToo 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Skateboarders, with their baggy trousers and snazzy T-shirts and insouciance, are often seen as cool. Skateboarding for adults – and no longer reserved for hormonal teens 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Note the sudden swerve from world-historical grandiosity to consumerist banality; the attempt to camouflage sincere confusion with winking insouciance; the obsession with generalizing a personal experience. Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z And this same person, wearing dark sunglasses and facetiously calling herself Troublemaker, reveals that she also can rap, with appropriate levels of insouciance and conviction, and while remaining on beat. This Is Lupita Nyong’o. Hollywood, Please Keep Up. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z In Zegen’s apt take, Manners has the reptilian insouciance of a would-be Elia Kazan, bringing to the stage the new techniques of Method acting he has learned as a hack in Hollywood. Review: ‘Trouble in Mind,’ 66 Years Late and Still On Time 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Cold beads of sweat began to appear on my forehead, not the sensation you want while experimenting with the summer line of a company dedicated to the idea of gamine insouciance. Critical Shopper: Could This Be Paris? No, Now Leave Me Alone. 2011-05-11T16:37:02Z Khakis are the dress pants of the uncertain, a compromise between comfort and rigor, between insouciance and dignity. Critical Shopper : Khakis at Grown & Sewn and at Save Khaki 2010-07-13T23:56:00Z Lucien deserves most of his comeuppances, but he remains sympathetic because Voisin captures his insouciance as a striver and social climber. "Lost Illusions" is a sumptuous period piece on the allure of fame, followers and fake news 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z The bob, while now a classic, has never quite lost its unladylike insouciance. Bye to ‘Real Housewife’ Hair 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z His insouciance continued into his last conference in Manchester. The enemy within: how Machiavelli would have dealt with Gordon Brown 2010-10-09T05:59:00Z Yet, fancy though they were, the clothes had a shrugged-on insouciance. Couture in the Shadow of the Women’s March 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z If there is a symbol of Ukrainian insouciance in the face of clear and present danger, it might just be this city. Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Is Just One of Innumerable Problems for Its Neighbors 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Her new novel, “The Guest,” proves Cline has become adept at portraying the eager heat of lust — not necessarily for sex, but for power and comfort — with cool insouciance. 'The Girls' novelist Emma Cline takes on the millennial grifter tale 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z You never know what you're going to get with Paire, although the catalogue of errors and general insouciance seen in the first and third sets has been a common sight in recent times. Norrie cruises into US Open second round 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z With his rumpled suits and untucked shirts, Mr. Johnson affected a louche, upper-class insouciance that somehow also connected with working-class voters. For Boris Johnson, a Tumultuous Tenure Ends With a Messy Exit 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z In the past, the chronically disheveled Mr. Johnson has deployed his trademark insouciance and canny political charisma to help get out of trouble. Attacked at home, Boris Johnson is honored in Ukraine with a pastry in his image. 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Nary a game, a point, a stroke or, indeed, a step came with a hint of insouciance. Nadal tops Djokovic in quarterfinal thriller at French Open 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The benign insouciance of the white American elite toward such dangerous fanatics also allowed them to organize freely for the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol and the potential violent overthrow of the government. Islamophobia and the Capitol insurrection 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Behind this ethos is a mix of insouciance and hard-nosed calculation. Britannia, With Fewer Rules 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Her dry wit and sensible insouciance would really help a lot in the humor department. How terrible is the 'Sex and the City' reboot? We duke it out 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z In the several years since his return, however, Beaujard has lavished the two-bedroom home with the full force of his fecund imagination, blending his signature theatricality with a new dose of insouciance. A Paris Apartment That Spans Styles and Centuries 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The operation’s success was the result of many factors: serious security failures by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, extensive planning and surveillance by the Mossad, and an insouciance bordering on fatalism on the part of Mr. Fakhrizadeh. The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z On Twitter, he broke the news with defiant insouciance. Lil Nas X: Is the rapper the defining star of his generation? 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z When coupled with superhuman feats, such as Ruth’s 60 home runs in 1927, this insouciance seems godlike. Opinion | MLB’s Lou Gehrig Day is a nod to greatness — and humanity 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z “I took it all for granted with the insouciance of youth - I don’t now.” Marine v Tottenham: FA Cup third round – live! 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z Still, many others chose to ride out Delta with a shrug — a response that might be interpreted as coolheadedness or insouciance. Hurricane Delta Strikes a Louisiana Region That Was Already Reeling 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z It seemed inevitable that Trump would get infected, given his insouciance on the issue of protective measures combined with his age, weight and ambitious travel schedule. Opinion | Reality Bursts the Trumpworld Bubble 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z Trump displayed similarly lethal insouciance last year when, to their mortification, he ordered US troops in northern Syria to desert their Kurdish allies and abandon the allied campaign against Islamic State. Trump’s battle with the American military is a fight he’s likely to lose 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z There’s an insouciance to PSG now that must make Leipzig feel very flat. RB Leipzig v Paris Saint-Germain: Champions League semi-final – live! 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z It was such an elaborate display of insouciance that it was somehow wondrous. Behrouz Boochani Just Wants to Be Free 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z The photo created an immediate sensation, embodying the group’s iconoclasm and insouciance in a single image. Fiona Adams, photographer who captured the Beatles on the rise, dies at 84 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z At first, Ms. Loughlin responded to the charges with what appeared to be insouciance, signing autographs on her way to a court appearance. Lori Loughlin Pleads Guilty via Zoom in College Admissions Case 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Their studied insouciance is undercut by their stern gazes, which are directed at the camera or off into the distance. Astrid Kirchherr: a stylish outsider who saw the beauty of the Beatles 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Morrison’s insouciance and obvious anger permeated the age. Readers respond to coronavirus quarantine culture, our new way of socially distant living 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Zuckerberg’s motto, “Move fast and break things”, was generally treated as a sign of youthful insouciance, not of galling rapacity. Big Swinging Brains and fashy trolls: how the world fell into a clickbait death spiral 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Historian Anne Applebaum wrote in her text Iron Curtain that the leaders "decided the fate of whole swathes of Europe with amazing insouciance". How a seaside summit reshaped the world 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Yet the response on one side of the aisle was insouciance and somnolence. Case for impeachment fails to disturb McConnell's sweet dreams of acquittal 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z In retrospect, that was criminal insouciance on an existential scale – the planetary-level version of the time one of his staff asked Michael Jackson why he didn’t stop all this stuff with the young boys. Don’t panic, humanity: selfless billionaires will save us all | Marina Hyde 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The composer’s own gravelly voice recordings of “The Wayward” exhibit a quirky combination of rebellious insouciance and defiant anger. Review: Harry Partch, the hobo years 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z The other is with what Hannan, with such charming insouciance, calls “some difficulties along the way in the 1920s” in Ireland. Brexiters evoking Ireland’s civil war should be careful what they wish for | Fintan O’Toole 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z With the blithe insouciance of an expert party crasher, he said, “We’re gonna go and see if we can get inside.” The Circus Comes to the House Impeachment Inquiry 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Briskly he took apart half of them and, with the insouciance for which the French are famous, he tossed their component parts into boxes. The spectacular power of interchangeable parts 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z When I called Diarmaid Ferriter, the Irish historian and author of The Border, to discuss the Johnson plan’s almost casual insouciance towards Ireland, his first words were, “We’re well used to that.” Peace in Ireland is precious. Brexit has made us forget that | Jonathan Freedland 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z The ensemble put a priority on lovable insouciance and, at times, outright humor. Review: Harry Partch, the hobo years 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z The daunting bill for multiple acts of political insouciance, measured in lives and petrodollars, is now coming due. The world ignored the warning signs – and now the Middle East is on the brink | Simon Tisdall 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z He has found himself studying the ominous insouciance of Fellini’s “Amarcord.” James Gray’s Journey from the Outer Boroughs to Outer Space 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Worn with her signature white jeans, blazer and an air of insouciance, the cheap-and-easy accessory went to show that true style is born of attitude, not just altitude, and inspired a million modern-day iterations. From Bowie to Beyoncé: what the stars can teach us about travelling in style 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z I don’t know if Szeemann was depressive, but the forced insouciance of “Grandfather” suggests buried memories of family drama and feelings of loss. Harald Szeemann’s Revolutionary Curating 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z But the show’s appeal lies less in its plot than in its off-kilter insouciance. Off-Kilter Humor on “Los Espookys” and “Alternatino” 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Trump has spent two years throwing out words like “coup”, “deep state”, “hoax”, “treason” and “witch-hunt” with unnerving insouciance. 'The Kraken unleashed': how Trump's shock troops attack US democracy 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Critics of the Cameron government often attributed its lack of rigour to his and Osborne’s privileged backgrounds, to a supposed upper-class insouciance. ‘A zombie party’: the deepening crisis of conservatism 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z What mattered to me, then and now, was the feeling of insouciance that it dislodged. Letter of Recommendation: Spuds MacKenzie 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z “He has a chutzpah and insouciance and just charges ahead,” Brown noted, and he is skilled at playing on the “resentment” of his followers. Opinion | Jerry Brown has some advice. Democrats should listen. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The report’s exoneration of Trump regarding knowing collaboration with, beyond his undisguised admiration for, the Russian thugocracy has stirred up his limitless insouciance. Opinion | Thanks to Mueller, 2020 won’t be about 2016 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Though there are only just under seven weeks left until Britain’s official date of departure from the European Union, public life seems drowsy with a lethal brew of fatalism, insouciance and burrowing cowardice. Have MPs, finally, come up with a decent Brexit proposal? | Matthew d’Ancona 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z But the essay feels like a blueprint for the manipulations later exerted on Craig Raine and others: inspiring pity and furthering ambition while holding a pose of insouciance. A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Now, as Khashoggi-related pressure on Trump’s principal Arab ally, the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, is easing, the US government’s gross insouciance is once more apparent. America is retreating from world affairs and circling the wagons… 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Their style is core K-pop – braggadocious rap choruses linked with sweetly crooned bridges – and their English lyrics are generic to a fault, but their styling, pulchritude and insouciance are already securing them millions of streams. Tunisian techno, Xitsongan rap and Satanic doo-wop: the best new music of 2019 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z While the swagger and insouciance have always been part of her character, Brown says that in other ways she is an old-fashioned girl who just wants to please. Mel B: ‘I got used to lying. I didn’t want anyone to find out’ 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z He wore shorts, high socks and a backward cap over his swaying blond hair, and his vibe of unperturbed, teenage insouciance made his parents’ initial concerns seem almost ridiculous. Leo Borg Steps Into His Father’s Shadow 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z He enters through an open sliding door, helps himself to a drink, fingers the jewelry and wanders around with a kind of entitled insouciance. Review: A psychopath smolders in seductive Argentine crime drama 'El Angel' - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Rather than barns, which are in short supply in Korea, the film substitutes the country’s ample greenhouses to explore themes of destruction and insouciance. Two years after 'The Walking Dead,' Steven Yeun's film career is 'Burning' - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z They were joined by Jimmy Song, a Bitcoin developer and true believer, who was wearing a pink shirt and a cowboy hat and leaning back in his chair with performative insouciance. The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z But given the insouciance of the national character, it’s possible that direct native involvement wouldn’t have made any difference in regards to the temperature of the fans. French fans are warming to the Ryder Cup … slowly - Golf Digest 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Her videos, shot in Africa and Inglewood, contrast the snarl and insouciance of this city with the earthen and ethereal of a faraway land of fishing boats, marketplaces and shacks where slaves once lived. Sudan Archives turns the violin into the soul of her funk, hip-hop, African rhythms - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z But he himself projected an air of insouciance and professed not to take his career too seriously. Burt Reynolds Dies at 82; Made Hearts Throb and Audiences Laugh 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z In a gallery handout he’s likened the chromatic insouciance to Color Field painting, and indeed the organizational motif swallows any inclination to read the objects as narrative subject matter. Review: Random junk takes on weirdly personal meaning in this UC Riverside Arts show 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z “I think that was an instance where it really hit me that an insouciance with language from me is different than from somebody else.” How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z They also possessed this insouciance and ambition that allowed them to perform on the biggest stage in the world. Kylian Mbappé’s boldness will be crucial for France against Belgium | Marcel Desailly 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Others signify of-the-moment insouciance: An obscene gesture from Villanelle, one of the protagonists of the popular BBC America series “Killing Eve,” is a big mood. Is the National ‘Mood’ the One in Polls or the One Online? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z But the more interesting, and more answerable, question may be why Melania Trump’s self-proclaimed insouciance felt so unnerving. Opinion | If Melania Trump really doesn’t care, then who does? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The same insouciance that allows Druckerman’s blithe retelling of her threesome also gets her through an account of her non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which leaves her bald from chemotherapy. Review | A midlife crisis that includes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and a threesome 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z It is about seizing the opportunity before a fresh pain knocks you out of action or before a fresh face arrives with the insouciance and ability to shake up the hierarchy to your detriment. Can Simona Halep Finally Make Her Major Breakthrough? 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z This insouciance typified the state auditing had reached. The financial scandal no one is talking about 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Some critics still berate him for his insouciance towards convention, and his assaults on the American dream. ‘I did the best I could with what I had…’: writers on the Philip Roth they knew 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Undaunted, Psalamanazar replied to them all with a flamboyant insouciance, seemingly having an explanation for everything. The woman who gave birth to rabbits 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z There’s no better example of that partnership than this iconic dress: the black cocktail frock worn, with casual insouciance, by Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” Sunday Best: Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z The show bobs along on an air of predictability, a shrug of insouciance. Why the Oscars have lost their mojo — and their relevance 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Scorning apparent White House insouciance, Bannon reaches for a hurricane metaphor: “They’re sitting on a beach trying to stop a Category Five.” Trump Tower meeting with Russians 'treasonous', Bannon says in explosive book 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z It remains to be seen whether such insouciance is justified. Opinion | The creepiest sexual-harassment story we aren’t talking about 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z It’s about time, because the base, which overwhelmingly backed Trump, is impatient with the infuriating combination of insouciance and threadbare slogans offered by Republican elites. Opinion | How Trump can win the GOP’s great war of ideas 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The jarring insouciance of the towel-tossing put a fittingly ugly coda on all that had gone before. Opinion | We can’t just shrug Trump off 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z I was trying not to think about the waves we were missing — a grinding anguish that is the dark side of surfing’s sunny insouciance. Opinion | Not Surfing on 9/11 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Indeed, Johnson’s remarkable display of insouciance and stoicism at Oakmont has been heralded, rightly, as almost a textbook response to adversity on the golf course. Tunnel Vision - Golf Digest 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z The problem of rule insouciance is not new. A Free-Riding Tortoise (and Other Violations) as Subway Delays Mount 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z But in other conversations, the Europeans were left quietly appalled by Mr Trump’s apparent insouciance about the Russian threat. Donald Trump fails to endorse NATO’s mutual defence pledge 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The gleeful insouciance of LaFarge’s music is darn near impossible to resist. What to listen to now: Perfume Genius, Pokey LaFarge, Adrian Marcel and Jlin 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z With his zen posture, ornate gold jewellery hanging from his septum and air of insouciance, he brings to mind a buddha. Thundercat on breakout album Drunk, laughing at racism – and his 'sexy cat', Tron 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Female insouciance against fascism takes a special bravery. In dark times, this image has a glorious message – resistance is not futile | Suzanne Moore 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z I thought it might add a sense of Gallic insouciance to my look – and who doesn’t want to look Gallically insouciant? ‘I looked like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins’: what’s it like to have a signature prop? 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z When I asked one former party leader what he got from the degree, he said with studied insouciance: “Why would you want to write about PPE?” PPE: the Oxford degree that runs Britain 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z With characteristic insouciance, the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, admitted during a visit to Berlin to some “sturm und drang” back home. Brexit high court decision means nothing has been ruled out 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Whoever wins the US presidency, such insouciance will be hard to justify beyond January’s inauguration day. Afghanistan is the dirty little secret of the US presidential campaign 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The CFPB’s progressive authoritarianism reflects, in the language of the Hudson Institute’s Christopher DeMuth , “regulatory insouciance” made possible by “legislative abnegation.” Congress insists on making itself irrelevant 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Weberman, with typical New York insouciance, shrugged off the episode. Bob Dylan and New York: A Complicated, Fertile Romance 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z To half the country, it’s a sure win for Hillary Clinton, who will expose Donald Trump’s shallow store of knowledge, his intemperate habit of insult and insouciance, his division of diversity into us and them. The Trump letters 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Sonia Rykiel, a beloved French designer synonymous with striped sweaters and Left Bank insouciance, died Thursday in Paris after years living with Parkinson’s disease and osteoporosis. Sonia Rykiel, the French fashion designer called 'the queen of knitwear,' dies at 86 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z His military campaign in Syria has been carried out with similar disinformation and insouciance. While the world is distracted, Putin escalates his war in Ukraine 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z That possibility is magnified by his reactions to charged events, which have sometimes been layered with insouciance rather than sobriety. As violence cuts into GOP convention, Trump under pressure to stay on safety message 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Cassel wrote, recalling the indignation the British soldiers’ apparent insouciance provoked. ‘The roaring of the shells was diabolical.’ It was zero hour on the Somme 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z Worrisome for anybody who cares about the rule of law is Mr. Jones’s apparent insouciance as he goes about misusing his office. To California’s Insurance Regulator, Green Is Job One 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z He showed disturbing insouciance in ignoring loud background rows with his spouses over his serial infidelity at both the Rumble in the Jungle in 1974 and the following year during the Thrilla in Manila. Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z There are fewer finer sights in football than when a teenager arrives on the big stage playing with the same kind of insouciance they displayed when they were knocking a ball around on their estate. England v Australia: international football friendly – live! 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z It was Karina's enigmatic mix of carefree insouciance, emotional transparency and chic style that made her such a good fit for Godard's distinctive blend of spontaneity and precision. 'Everything at the same time': Anna Karina as more than a muse in Los Angeles 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Once again, crowds of shaken residents huddled in a grand public square, grieving not only for the dead, but also for a lost insouciance – the high price paid for years of governments’ slow-footedness. How the Paris Attacks Changed Us 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z It turns out, inventing insouciance is painstaking work. Designing Beyond Chloé: Inside Clare Waight Keller’s Parisian Home 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z In the face of this, Obama remains inert, unmoved, displaying a neglect and insouciance that borders on denial. Obama's ideological holiday in Havana 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z There are fewer finer sights in football than when a teenager arrives on the big stage playing with the same kind of insouciance they displayed when they were knocking a ball around on their estate. England v Australia: international football friendly – live! 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z It was the end, he said, of “insouciance”. The end of insouciance 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z But even though Arnett has toned down his signature sardonic slickness for the role, Chip speaks with a self-absorbed insouciance that makes him difficult to believe and impossible to like. The fresh 'The Characters' and the stale 'Flaked' have Netflix in common and little else 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z The laid-back atmosphere is one reason; the large, colorful room accented with green walls and turquoise cloth napkins radiates that incongruous mix of luxury and insouciance that distinguishes the best Caribbean resorts. Review: Vital, in Montclair, Whisks Diners to the Caribbean 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The soul of insouciance, Bill then flew off to Switzerland to work on his campaign book, leaving the details of production and distribution to his newly minted “producer.” A Bill Buckley Lesson for Conservatism Today 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z I see Danny DeVito in the role, his charm and insouciance taking the edge off the occasional murder and masking the nature of the enterprise, which after all is drugs, addiction, death . . . blah, blah, blah. ‘El Chapo’ couldn’t escape the allure of Hollywood 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z France is, for the third time this year, mourning the loss of its insouciance. Thanks Amazon, but we don't need your solidarité 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z He was drawn to their generosity, and to Ingrid’s cryptic insouciance. Patrick Modiano, True Detective 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The looks express a “cool insouciance and understated style,” he explained. Fashion Week: Really big band, really big show for Jacobs 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Each day, he sauntered to the defense table and slouched in his chair, his rangy limbs arrayed in a posture of insouciance, like a kid behind the wheel of a lowrider. The Lawyer Who Defended Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The typical response I get to all this is one of disbelief or insouciance. Trying to Teach Big Agra in a Hotbed of Locavores 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z It was one of the direst performances of the Stuart Lancaster era, overpowered up front, eclipsed at the breakdown and playing with an insouciance behind that suggested they were saving themselves for what lay ahead. France 25-20 England | Rugby World Cup warm-up match report 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Typically French, too, is an insouciance of manner, “doing frivolous things seriously, and serious things frivolously”, as the philosopher Montesquieu wrote. From Left Bank to left behind: where have the great French thinkers gone? 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Perhaps it is insouciance, ignorance or quiet concentration, but when a government minister turns up, nobody notices. Start-up city 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Aziz behaved with insouciance, as though there was little to worry about. Tariq Aziz and the Last of the Baathists 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Already, he says, the widespread insouciance about antibody validation has started to fade. Reproducibility crisis: Blame it on the antibodies 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The resolution seems thin, and the insouciance of tone, often appealing in Pearlman’s work, feels here like an attempt to pass off the improbable as the inevitable. Edith Pearlman: Fabulist, Realist 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z But to detain, and torture, the innocent with insouciance is something different. Dick Cheney’s tortured logic 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Those included not just clutter but also upper-class insouciance and some rather complicated family psychology, of the Tennessee Williams sort. Too Much Stuff | The New Yorker 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z They boast of their common sense and call themselves pragmatists but destroy with reckless insouciance. Tory wreckers out to destroy their own human rights 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Robin got Popeye’s grating voice and strutting insouciance to surreal perfection. Richard Dawkins Remembers Robin Williams' Poetic Comic Genius 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z And so you begin with CSI-level interrogations about driving records and end with insouciance bordering on negligence: Great! Kids now in the driver’s seat “There is a form of insouciance with the younger players,” Deschamps said, “they’re full of life, that’s what you expect from a younger player. But it’s also a question of quality.” France, Germany meet in all-Euro World Cup quarter 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z One 51-second passage of play saw the Dutch ping the ball around with signal insouciance, 11 passes which culminated in an aimless Haan cross from the right. World Cup: 25 stunning moments … No25: the Cruyff Turn is born in 1974 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z The lesson-category within grand strategic history is that when an established international system enters its phase of deterioration, many leaders nonetheless respond with insouciance, obliviousness, and self-congratulation. “A corrosive dereliction of duty”: Why the New York Times’ America-first journalism is so dangerous 2014-05-01T23:00:00Z Behind these deals is a certain kind of youthful insouciance as well. Google and Facebook's Fight for the Future of Tech 2014-04-24T09:56:52Z This game was most notable, perhaps, for the insouciance of Smith, whose simmering feud with Woodson manifested itself in the form of a single attempted field goal in 26 minutes. How Badly Did the Knicks Lose This Season? Let Us Count the Ways 2014-04-12T15:53:29Z But on Monday, he discussed the possibility of being traded with his usual insouciance. Devils 4, Red Wings 3: Brodeur Earns Win in What May Be His Devils Finale 2014-03-05T03:48:32Z "And maybe at the bottom of it you need a kind of insouciance - a kind of looseness in you which stops you from panicking all the time." What next for the National Theatre? 2013-10-11T02:07:41Z The cost of Whittaker’s insouciance went up sharply the following year. Lottery Winner Jack Whittaker's Losing Ticket 2012-12-13T21:29:36Z That said, there is not universal insouciance across government. The moral certainty of Iain Duncan Smith 2013-09-05T15:13:40Z Rumsfeld occasionally lapses into a variant of the “stuff happens” insouciance we heard from him when reporters asked about the looting and chaos that gripped Iraq after the invasion. No cans, no trash? 2013-05-21T02:29:00Z Rumsfeld occasionally lapses into a variant of his “stuff happens” insouciance when reporters quizzed him about the looting and chaos that gripped Iraq after the invasion.” Rumsfeld’s Rules: ‘Leadership lessons’ on war and life 2013-05-20T16:00:08Z How to park your bike with the insouciance of the master ... Classic YouTube 2013-04-25T07:30:00Z Having somebody banned for life from the securities industry as your CEO adds a sense of insouciance and opportunity to your company profile. The shortlist to run Time Inc, the most unenviable job in America 2013-03-26T13:30:01Z Berlusconi has campaigned with classic wink-and-nudge insouciance, promising voters everything from free private school for their kids to reimbursement of the pesky property taxes they’ve had to pay in his absence. Send in the Clowns 2013-02-25T09:45:00Z Like many others, he discounted the storm’s power and moved through the day with a certain insouciance. Breezy Point, Battered Seaside Haven, Recalls Its Trial by Fire 2012-12-25T02:57:49Z Denis Law sashays over to take up possession and is soon clipping a blind backheel into space before sauntering off himself, projecting an airy insouciance specifically tailored to agitate and annoy. Self-sabotage and self-hate: Scotland's relationship with success 2012-11-14T09:20:33Z His insouciance would provoke fascinating and revealing debate. Op-Ed Contributor: Punch Sulzberger and His Times 2012-10-01T02:13:09Z Despite many points of agreement with my colleagues, I write separately because we converge from different paths and there are aspects of this case that—NIH’s insouciance notwithstanding -- should trouble the heart. A Legal Win for Stem Cell Research, but Case May Not Be Over 2012-08-24T22:30:47Z Riding the Wave of Surfer Fitness To the casual spectator, surfing seems to involve primarily balance, grace, nervy insouciance and a certain laid-back, ineffable oneness with the powers of the deep. Well: Riding the Wave of Surfer Fitness 2012-08-22T04:01:48Z Both wins were dramatic and involved beating established favourites, yet Agnel appeared typically relaxed afterwards and focused on cementing even more wins in what Le Figaro headlined "the insouciance of new golden era". France pins Olympic swimming hopes on Yannick Agnel 2012-07-31T15:31:44Z His insouciance contrasts with the explosive personality of Mr. Carmichael’s pugnacious Alcippe. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘The Liar,’ at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey 2012-07-14T05:11:44Z It would be odd if Mr Cameron, notwithstanding his dangerous tendency to insouciance about his mistakes, did not grasp this too. Taxes and politics: the price Mr Cameron pays 2012-06-22T21:03:55Z With striking insouciance, UPS is celebrating this fact with the slogan Go The Extra Mile. The London 2012 Olympics takes gold for management-speak 2012-06-21T12:09:46Z All over western and southern Europe this theme was set to music, now with gaiety and insouciance, now with bitterness. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z At twenty-one he had been handsome, with wit and laughter and the gay insouciance of youth written on his face. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z To free-speech advocates in Pakistan, the government’s seeming insouciance about censorship is a particular cause for alarm. Pakistan Builds Web Wall Out in the Open 2012-03-02T12:53:36Z She little thought in her easy insouciance how near the truth she was treading. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Yet there was more to his projection of insouciance than the bravado of madness or despair. Insight: Syria's Assad set for long conflict 2012-02-03T16:38:41Z These, they suspected, were the key to its insouciance in the face of sandstorms. Biomimetics: Not a scratch 2012-02-02T16:03:12Z The insouciance that has followed the decay of custom was impossible, because the tribe that gave way to it was lost. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Ginger, rather impressed by the insouciance of the whole proceeding, then led the Sailor across the yard to his duties. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z She said this with such a delightful air of insouciance, and with such a radiant smile, that Miss Chrysie felt that she could have shot her there and then. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z Auber was a gay trifler, scattering his bright effusions with absolute insouciance, teeming with melodious ideas, but lacking depth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z The insouciance with which, mentally, she had always associated him, had fled. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z “Certainly no comic personage,” says Gudin, “has more 270the tone, the esprit, the gaiety, the intelligence, the lightness, that kind of insouciance and intrepid self-confidence which characterizes the French people.” Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z She lingered for four months, enduring terrible sufferings, during which she continued to occupy herself with the management of her household, while her gaiety and insouciance never failed her for a single moment. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z In Chapter XIII, "partly of sarcasm, wholly of insousiance" was changed to "partly of sarcasm, wholly of insouciance". The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z As she became more flattering and appealing, Alan recovered his gay insouciance. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z There was a gay insouciance about his whole manner of addressing himself to the game which was very attractive. Fifty Years of Golf 2011-09-14T02:00:50.627Z Contrasting its gay insouciance with his own toil and turmoil, regretting, perhaps, the time when trifles made his joy as they did his kitten's? Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z The Foreign Secretary in his reply, while mildly deprecating these expressions, allowed his real sentiments to appear with a most undiplomatic insouciance. Queen Victoria 2011-08-23T02:00:32.007Z Ever an easy-going philosopher, he had as yet kept the insouciance of the gamester who has staked and lost and is content to retire from the board. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z If there is one quality in this world which its fortunate possessor is to be envied the enjoyment of, it is that of absolute insouciance. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Imitating as well as I could the happy insouciance of a snail "sliming" up the side of the Parthenon, I tried to restrict my range of vision to points immediately near me. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z I sauntered into "the Piccadilly" on the following afternoon, armed at all points, and approached the bay-window, in which I observed Broadhem and several others seated round the table, with the utmost insouciance. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z The bomb lends the Pakistanis a certain diplomatic insouciance. Fourth Nuclear Reactor at Pakistan's Khushab Site 2011-05-15T05:00:00Z However, anger quickly became insouciance that then became a rudimentary erasing of history by some, as if Torres hadn’t been the superstar striker everyone knew he was. Goal: Fernando Torres and That Other Title Race 2011-05-07T22:50:36Z With the fiscal crisis in parts of the euro zone barely contained, such insouciance seemed odd. Economics focus: Safety thirst 2011-05-05T10:58:31Z Under its insouciance and extravagance lie many of the ideas that dictated his attitude as writer and as critic. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z The exercised mice did frequently freeze and hide, but they are prey animals, a situation that does not reward insouciance. Well: Does Exercise Really Boost Your Mood? 2011-04-27T04:01:46Z From aeronautics to the negro question, from polar exploration to the political conditions in Bulgaria, she passed with the jauntiest insouciance and apparently with a considerable fund of information to support her positions. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z “Oh, that of course,” answered the Count, with as much insouciance as if he had been only asked for a cigar. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z But this air of insouciance is only assumed. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z She thought that Miles's habitual insouciance was a trifle less apparent when he conversed with Alice; certainly his eyes began to follow her and rest upon her; for Mr. Miles did such things openly. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z She had a gaiety and insouciance, and a natural childlike merriment that all her terrible disasters could not overcloud. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z It was the voice of Fitz speaking with the almost uncanny insouciance of the wonderful night at Portland Place. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z But there was nothing hard, nothing self-engrossed, in this insouciance of Italia's. Vestigia Vol. II. 2011-02-04T03:00:22.950Z His hands were stuffed into his pockets with a kind of critical insouciance, a preference which confirmed an expectation on my part rooted in Billy Bunter books or older examples of public schoolboy fiction. Running London: Greenford to Stanmore 2011-01-31T12:45:33Z His mien changed from gay insouciance to bitter fury. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z They glitter like silver in the sunlight, defying all the efforts of the French artillery; they sail along with a calm insouciance that nearly drives me mad. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z They were lying on their oars, or holding on to lines from the two ships, with the most perfect insouciance. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z So on Monday, after the Blizzard of ’10, with his vast metropolis at a near standstill, our mayor affected insouciance. About New York: For a Snow-Crippled City, a Morsel of Humble Pie From the Mayor 2010-12-29T02:05:40Z The debacle at Heathrow is one consequence of this insouciance, but the wreckage stretches across the economic landscape. Heathrow's chaos is indicative of a wider national malaise 2010-12-25T19:00:01Z I don't say that Mr. Carmel was chatting with the insouciance and gaiety of a French abb�. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z Talent and insouciance took him a long way. Appraisal: Don Meredith Favored His Wits Over His Playbook 2010-12-11T02:04:00Z Just as likely, a new generation of entrepreneurs will get inspired and ratchet up their own insouciance to suitors. When Groupon Dodged Google 2010-12-09T04:00:00Z I find the insouciance towards the decline of the trans-Atlantic relationship, on both sides of the ocean, a little shocking. Tony Blair Takes on the World 2010-09-03T23:34:00Z There was a change even in his facial expression, from winking insouciance to a grisly, mannered sensitivity. A real tweet for us all as Kevin Pietersen presents the silly season 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z There was something dry, and a little suspicious in his manner, so slight that you could hardly define it, but which contrasted strikingly with the decision and insouciance of Doctor Droqville's talk. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z In fact, the Fiver isn't even sure you spell insouciance "insouciance", it just typed the letters out, sat back in front of the television and waited for the microwaves to wash it out to sea. The Fiver 2010-08-18T14:19:00Z It was a poor effort by the Irishman, and it was matched by his apparent insouciance at the prospect of missing out on Celtic Manor. Nick Watney leads charge of young generation in US PGA 2010-08-15T00:41:00Z Her toothy smile and surfer girl insouciance hid deep emotional pain. Olympic Swimmer Amanda Beard Finds Joy Out of the Pool 2010-07-31T23:14:00Z There are days when Federer's relaxed control of all that surrounds him on a tennis court borders on insouciance. Andy Murray limps over line in marathon as Richard Gasquet blows up 2010-05-24T23:06:00Z By eerie coincidence, that latter display of monstrous insouciance occurred on the same night as the failed effort to raze Times Square. Terrorism: The inevitable blowback from drone attacks 2010-05-15T01:01:00Z The US Senate investigation into credit ratings agencies has just released a mountain of documents which reveal a mind-boggling insouciance. Finance is responsible for this savage new era. But it's off the electoral agenda agenda 2010-05-02T18:00:00Z There was a lack of polish, an insouciance, in her pictures that captured the spirit of her generation and sold millions of long, floral frocks. Laura Ashley: A daughter's-eye view 2010-04-30T23:17:00Z With a belt, the look that you were hoping projected Paris catwalk insouciance becomes unreconstructed Idaho truck driver. Double denim is back 2010-03-17T00:52:00Z The whole formed a strange mixture, indicative at once of pre-occupation and listless insouciance, of grave employment and utter frivolity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 In Saxon, he had not only recognized a greater genius, but found a friend, and with the insouciance of a graceful philosophy he reasoned it out to his own contentment. The Key to Yesterday Mr. Thorndyke has lost none of the easy insouciance that sits upon him so naturally and becomingly. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir He was flushed with excitement, and the habitual insouciance of his manner had given place to a reality and earnestness of purpose which rendered eloquent his every gesture and look. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance His whole air and mien exhibited the careless insouciance of one with whom the world went easily, asking little from him of exertion, less still of forethought. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) And beside her the sultry insouciance of the maiden heightened the matron's charm. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes "For what they say I care that much!" cried Mr. Ginsburg, with insouciance. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole Political insouciance was his prevailing habitude of mind; an invincible tendency to "laissez aller" the basis of his character. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 One little girl, with the fine insouciance of eight years, says there is no use praying Le Bon Dieu, for He doesn't understand Cree very well. Seeds of Pine Unconscious that Nemesis was marching upon him, Mr. Stiffson, stimulated by the coffee, bacon and eggs, and the gay insouciance of Cissie Boye, was finding the situation losing much of its terror for him. Adventures of Bindle There was none of her radiant, aggressive insouciance in the photograph. Captain Macedoine's Daughter She met his eyes with insouciance, but, somehow, one felt all at once that she liked him better. The House of Fulfilment This is an instance of James’s insouciance as to harmonising his narrative with Henderson’s, or causing Henderson to conform to his. James VI and the Gowrie Mystery Hurray! for motley, for a good sound insouciance, for a healthy philosophic carelessness! The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) With all his characteristic aplomb and insouciance Whitney Barnes was unable to face such a rush with any degree of calmness. Officer 666 It was a crowd with a flutter of laughter in it, a crowd that had a personality, an insouciance, an independence in its friendliness. Westward with the Prince of Wales "To return to your affairs, Monsieur Jean," she said, grabbing the garments and proceeding to put them on with that insouciance begotten of studio life. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life Ilse was more convincing, more popular with her gay insouciance and infectious laughter, and her unexpected and enchanting flashes of militancy, which always interested the crowd. The Crimson Tide A Novel His efforts at indifference were chafing his inmost being; the cloak of insouciance was stifling him; the primeval man was struggling for expression, that brute-like rage whose only limits are its own fury and violence. The Strollers A wave of his hand simulated an insouciance he did not feel. When the Sleepers Woke Then, with a poor show of hiding his spite under a cloak of insouciance, he addressed the Colonel. The Wild Geese He tried to be natural, to meet Pan on a plane of the old western insouciance, but it was impossible. Valley of Wild Horses He revelled in the girl's odd speeches; he thought Audrey's nonsense worth more than all Geraldine's sense, he even enjoyed with a man's insouciance her daring disregard of conventionality. Lover or Friend If he could not taste it with the same insouciance, it was only because he perceived its quality more poignantly. Beside Still Waters The expression of his grey eyes denoted both resolution and wariness; whilst a general look of good temper and openness, which amounted almost to insouciance, pervaded the whole face. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 I then somewhat questioned my own insouciance in having thrust you into hazard; and attempted to make my way across the country in your direction. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 To the natural insouciance of his aristocratic bringing-up he had added the steely reserve of a man moving in the large world, engaged more often than not in some hazardous enterprise. The Double Four “What an air of insouciance,” thought I. “That woman is not in love!” The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West The boy and girl lay back in their chairs, lingering over their peach pastry, and inspecting each other with all the frank insouciance of childhood. Athalie And that is the result of the Spanish insouciance—death and corruption, loss of power and land and honour, the ruin of countless lives, and absolute decay. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia When he had composed himself by the survey, effecting it with an air of great insouciance, which, however, failed to conceal the fact that his heart was beating somewhat wildly, he approached the Lady. Humorous Ghost Stories He began to interest me, and thinking of him and of his gay insouciance I forgot the particular story, to hear which I was to see him again. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands Annabel had taken her life into her hands with gay insouciance, had made her own friends, gone her own way. Anna the Adventuress She found herself loathing the perfumy rooms, the sleepy voice, and hardly able to sit still in her restless impatience of Lolly’s platitudes and Charles’s insouciance, while Rashe could never be liked again. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster I do perceive very grave trouble there," said de Marmont with characteristic insouciance, "but one which need not greatly worry the Emperor. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days How had he dared to make himself so much at home in her drawing room, with his impertinent insouciance and his Sultan airs? The Diamond Coterie He spoke, however, of other matters in his gentle, thoughtful voice—avoiding always any mention of politics and war—chatted on pleasantly with the familiarity and insouciance of old acquaintance. Barbarians Lovely, with a show of insouciance, bagged three gerunds and one gerundive. The Varmint The fatigue and change, the talking evening and restless night, had produced their effect; her very thoughtlessness and ordinary insouciance rendered the rush more overwhelming when it did come, and the weeping was almost hysterical. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Behind the scenes George was active and anxious, while in parliament the weapons of indignation and sarcasm with which North was assailed failed to pierce the impenetrable wall of his amiable insouciance. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration Will the day never come when, with whirling sporrans and flashing pibrochs you will rise against the alien oppressor, and demand Home Rule, together with the total abolition of present disdainful British insouciance? Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. Rose still felt herself, for all her laughing outward insouciance, a poor, bruised, helpless chattel, trodden under the heel of a world which was intolerably powerful, rich, and self-satisfied, the odious product of 'family arrangements.' Robert Elsmere The burnt out voice of a chanteuse, coming over the PA system from the dining room, tried to remember the sultry insouciance with which it had sung "Eadie was a Lady" in its youth. Vigorish Miss Murray grows quite confidential, not in a weak or silly manner, but with the frank insouciance of youth. Floyd Grandon's Honor His puffed, discolored lips stood out against the pasty whiteness of his face with the grotesque effect of a mask and his eyes gleamed malevolently, but he lifted his hat with the old airy insouciance. The Fifth Ace I concluded my foregoing instalment, narrating my service of a writ for breaching a promise of marriage, with a spirited outburst of insouciance and devilmaycarefulness. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. He even went so far as to place in the centre of it a large bunch of nettles, which he contended gave it an air of insouciance and lightheartedness that had been lacking before. No Man's Land When he first beheld her she was bright, with a certain teasing insouciance. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The autopilot functioned perfectly, however, and Logan trusted it to the point of insouciance. Tight Squeeze What is the meaning of these words: atavism; penumbra; semaphore; astigmatic; insouciance; mise-en-scene; kinetic? Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day All at once a smile played upon her features, in which I detected, or fancied so, the gay insouciance that springs from indifference. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse He waved a hand at me with debonair insouciance. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure Imprudent damsel, to let slip So much insouciance and money! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 1, 1893 His jaunty insouciance struck a spark from her. The Highgrader "We are killing hundreds of 'em, sir," he had reported with delightful insouciance. Pushed and the Return Push He went about with an aspect of calm insouciance, and therefore with a feeling of calm and ease within. An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) When he had got a light at last he threw himself back and puffed away with as complete an expression of insouciance as he could command. In Direst Peril With what insouciance had she treated the affair of zu Pfeiffer and the youngster whom he had struck. Witch-Doctors Shrivelled man could relax the tension of resistance to cold and damp and change, and go forth into the sun with cordial insouciance. The Daughters of Danaus At first Miss Loder grudged the unconscious Toni her established position as châtelaine of this eminently desirable home; and Toni's very simplicity, the youthful insouciance with which she filled that position, was an added annoyance. The Making of a Soul Corona, exploring the precincts, had discovered this kitchen garden, found it to her mind, and thereafter made free of it with the cheerfullest insouciance. Brother Copas Such insouciance would have galled Miss Gabriel past endurance had it not, mercifully, lain outside her range of apprehension. Major Vigoureux It was not until Friday, that Mary’s “little friends” caught her red-handed, in an escapade that explained everything from the size of her trunk to the puzzling insouciance of her manner. Betty Wales Senior And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life. Fantasia of the Unconscious But the flush dies down, the insouciance departs, and with it the ardent generosity of life. Joyous Gard The delightful insouciance of this child-pianist won the heart of every hearer, and his success quite turned the head of his father, the worthy bookkeeper. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians She redoubled her friendliness to Richardson by way of flinging down her gage; whereupon Desmond with admirable insouciance retired from the lists. The Great Amulet Idleness and insouciance had few temptations for them, cynicism was abhorrent to them. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies That's the kind of man I really like, chirping his insouciance. Fantasia of the Unconscious And so," wound up Anderson with epigrams, "the years will be left humanity to weep these days of insouciance and neglect. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life It is often truly diverting in its very insouciance. Illuminated Manuscripts Who is he?' asked Sir Hugh, with a touch of enthusiasm that was in striking contrast with his habitual and aristocratic insouciance. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 He had all the Bourbon insouciance, and would break off an important discussion of the Council from indifference, incompetence, or impatience, to go off hunting. The French Revolution A Short History Even the sick man found it difficult to maintain his cheery insouciance. The Emigrant Trail The jaunty insouciance of the young range-rider irritated him as a banderilla goads a bull in the ring. Steve Yeager At the last moment when the meeting with Michael was really imminent Fay's insouciance began, as Magdalen feared it might, to show signs of collapse. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron It matters so little to her whether they come or go; there is so little eagerness about her, so perfect an insouciance of manner. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance The military men had brought nothing but the bravery, the insouciance, the recklessness, and the polish of their nation and profession. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Having led him in, listening silently the while, and put her additional lamp upon the table, she now spoke, with no empressement, almost with a manner of insouciance. A Dozen Ways Of Love Every one talked in subdued tones—it was only the wounded who were gay, gay with an amazing insouciance. Leaves from a Field Note-Book It is difficult for those who have imagination to understand the insouciance which looks so like heartlessness of the unimaginative. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron She turned, and prepared a drink for me, with the insolent insouciance which had never deserted her. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor Shivering with sympathy for Olga, Regina could not refrain from looking at her, while Mrs. Carew spoke, and marvelled at the calm deference, the smiling insouciance with which her hazel eyes rested on the speaker. Infelice When you are a marchioness you may make penny buses a feature of the distinguished insouciance of your character if you like. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" There was an insouciance about her he did not understand. The Big-Town Round-Up For many critics have been misled by Byron's denunciation of Castlereagh, just as others have spoken lightly of the stubborn conservatism of Wellington, or the easy and half-cynical insouciance of the author of the Anti-Jacobin. Armageddon—And After No one has ever explained what might have resulted politically from the combination of Moreau's embittered ambition, the insouciance of Pichegru, and the fanatical ardour of Georges. The House of the Combrays He must know he was in peril, but his debonair, smiling insouciance never left him for a moment. The Sheriff's Son In all this area the British soldier walks with a singular insouciance. On the King's Service Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms Gradually the English Tommy influenced us until we gained much of his steadiness of purpose, his bulldog tenacity and his insouciance. Private Peat True, he was smoking, but without a trace of affected insouciance or bravado; gravely rather, resting an elbow on his groin and leaning forward with a preoccupied frown. Lady Good-for-Nothing She looked up at him with the most charming insouciance when he paused so portentously at the very opening of his address. The Jervaise Comedy “Oh! ah! did hear of a fellow,” responded Julius, with equal insouciance, “but the idea of any other man carrying off the prize, perfectly ridiculous!” Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, He turned in the saddle, smiling at her with jaunty insouciance. Mavericks Down the rue Halévy he went and on into the Place de l'Opéra; but here he slackened his pace, and something of his insouciance dropped from him. Max When a party Government does by any strange hap make its appearance on tho political stage, the Ministers of War and of Marine can afford to regard its advent with the utmost insouciance. The Problem of China Mrs. Ermsted flicked an eyelid in Mrs. Burton's direction with an insouciance that somehow robbed the act of any serious sting. The Lamp in the Desert Miss Lutworth, meanwhile, brimful of the joy of life and insouciance, was amusing herself vastly. Halcyone To readers unfamiliar with the cast of mind of professional criminals it will be almost impossible to appreciate with what bold insouciance these vultures now hovered over the metropolitan barnyard. True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office He forgot his sins with the insouciance of an animal. The Price of Love Back then while students paraded themselves in the insouciance of sociable gestures reflecting their sexual rhythms he had dangled alone like a skeleton in a neurosurgeon's office. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Edward Douglas was indeed a perfect model of youthful beauty, and possessed of all the high spirits and happy insouciance which can only charm at that early period. Marriage But Mr. Wrissell held out a hand with the perfection of urbane insouciance. The Regent They had hardly admitted to themselves the gravity of the task while the war lasted, and being now relieved of immediate danger, they gave themselves up to surprising insouciance. George Washington He was extremely sensitive, in spite of his daring insouciance and his pride. The Reason Why She walked into Spiderman's web with great insouciance and sat down. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America All the devil-may-care insouciance of Buck Daniels was quite, quite gone. The Night Horseman The only actor of my father's day, he used to tell me, who had a touch of the same insouciance and lawlessness was Leigh Murray, a famous jeune premier. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections We cannot but rejoice that Nelly Custis flashed some of the joyfulness and divine insouciance of youth into the tired heart of the tired great man. George Washington How wonderfully handsome he was then, and even still!—and how the air of insouciance suited him, in that splendid white and gold uniform. The Reason Why Television, movies, billboards, and music all recorded that the rich, and happy people who played in this survival of the fittest game so successfully did so by following their desires with confidence and unapologetic insouciance. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America "Nothing to do with gunpowder, I hope," said Emily with her usual insouciance. Fated to Be Free It fell upon the pulpit, and she tripped up to it, passing over the sacred altar in vulgar insouciance. Mistress Penwick It may be considered a matter of grave doubt whether the nine-year-old girl drew and engraved with her own hand the first-named charming picture, which has been credited to her with such frank insouciance. Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. How abruptly had his insouciance changed to devotion, his impertinence to respect! The Castle Inn The gay insouciance of their expressions, the daintiness of their poses, the beautiful and suitable color of everything give me a sense of satisfaction and repose. The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Discarding the stiff buckram strut of martial tradition, he educated them to move with the loafing insouciance of the Indian, or the graceful ease of the panther. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 The odd ways of these Samoans, their pride of position, their vices, their virtues, their vanities, their small thefts, their tricks, their delightful insouciance sometimes, all amused him. Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial I can't make him understand that a job involving the happiness of one hundred or so children can't be chucked with such charming insouciance. Dear Enemy He smiled at Jurgis confidingly, and then started talking again, with his blissful insouciance. The Jungle All the admiration she had ever felt for his strange insouciance, his almost bravado-like coolness, his mastery over events, seemed suddenly to resolve itself into more definite and more clearly-comprehended emotion. The Box with Broken Seals Something in his habit, something in that insouciance which so narrowly escaped insolence, was at once strongly reminiscent and provokingly elusive…. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf A quick red belied her insouciance and she made a little foray into the bin of mill-ends. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Then he laughed, with the sudden insouciance of the Italian. Eleanor Perhaps they were affecting a little of that British insouciance you spoke of—' 'They had better not. Lord Kilgobbin Rose still felt herself, for all her laughing outward insouciance, a poor bruised, helpless chattel, trodden under the heel of a world which was intolerably powerful, rich, and self-satisfied, the odious product of 'family arrangements.' Robert Elsmere The cool insouciance of such a proceeding amused me much, and I resolved to draw him out a little. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 He! a great bulky man, with a face of constitutional joy—but so it was; he had a tender heart, deep feelings of all kinds under an appearance of insouciance which deceived the world. Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Here were the haughty Patrician Guard, who had drawn their swords on him in the senate-house, young lords whose theory of life was to lounge through it in patrician insouciance. Caesar: a Sketch If you knew, dearest Kate, how foreigners school themselves, and strive to catch up that insouciance, and never succeed—never!' Lord Kilgobbin She rocked to and fro in her chair with an air of perfect insouciance. Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee In his correspondence of this time there are suddenly noticeable a gayety and an insouciance which are elements wholly new in his letters. Henrik Ibsen He dropped youthful insouciance over favors received to consider the change that marriage makes in a young man's status. Bertram Cope's Year He seems to despise Lousteau, but rather for his insouciance and neglect of his opportunities of making himself a position than for anything else. Parisians in the Country He realized that his temper was merely a challenge to her teasing, and he wisely fell back into his customary attitude of unruffled insouciance. The Call of the Cumberlands Of cynical insouciance; for although this is a "national monument," nothing whatever is done in the way of repairs. Old Calabria For Charley—outwardly all his easy insouciance had returned—he submitted to be idolized and made much of by his wife, after the calm fashion of lordly man. A Terrible Secret He spoke in a ringing, resonant voice, returning her unabashed pressure with a hearty good will and blazing down upon her through his clear blue eyes with a high degree of self-possession, even of insouciance. Bertram Cope's Year His protests, at first couched in deprecatory language, were met with girlish insouciance; but, when he began to complain arrogantly, Isabella replied with spirit and determination. The Tragedies of the Medici After the briefest pause she held out her hand with charming insouciance. The Bars of Iron Flanking him, two young women of the world, with that insouciance which appertains--in Limehouse--to sweet sixteen, were chanting shrilly to his accompaniment: both more than comfortably drunk. Red Masquerade It's of no use worrying," Mr. Stuart made answer, with the easy insouciance concerning all things earthly which sat so naturally upon him; "bad shillings always come back—let that truthful old adage console them. A Terrible Secret There he stood, suspended over an abyss, smoking a cigarette, bravely forcing himself to an attitude of serene insouciance, while the basement yawned for him! The Green Mouse In an instant they were themselves once more, two completely self-contained children of sophistication, with superb insouciance making nothing of their public triumph in a rare and difficult performance. Alias the Lone Wolf There is a primeval insouciance about this sort of thing which is as refreshing to a mind jaded with the stiff formality of professional umpires as a cold shower-bath. Tales of St. Austin's With a lordly insouciance, Major Alan Hawke then strolled out of the great bank and deliberately arranged his line of future action while he was taking his ease at his inn. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Once—when a distant bell tolled the hour of ten—a loud prolonged laugh, almost impudent in its suggestion of merry insouciance, echoed through the weird silence of the night. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel "And then what?" she queried with childish insouciance. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley That was when the great Captain Kidd Havens was piling up the millions which his survivors are spending with such charming insouciance. The Metropolis Senor Torres maintained a set smile designed to be agreeable; Professor Herara, serene in the possession of his linguistic acquirements, displayed the insouciance of an undertaker. The Ne'er-Do-Well An easy insouciance tempered the habitual military smartness of the man who had known several different services in the fifteen years of his wasted young manhood. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story But the Scarlet Pimpernel himself, with that indomitable optimism of his, and almost maddening insouciance, either did not believe in Kulmsted's disloyalty or chose not to heed it. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel From his bold insouciance it seemed evident that he was totally indifferent as to who recognized him. The Winds of Chance Sometimes she was piqued at his apparent indifference—at his lack of any stronger feeling for her—seeming to detect in him something of her own insouciance and coldness. Love, the Fiddler Eve, having got rid of him, showed none of the insouciance she had recommended. Love Me Little, Love Me Long With the insouciance of men bred in club and at mess, the two soldiers soon drifted into an easy chat, meeting on safe grounds. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Even foreign circles in China were somewhat nonplussed by the insouciance displayed by the peripatetic legal authority; and the Memorandum was for many days spoken of as an unnecessary indiscretion. The Fight for the Republic in China Only believe me when I show you a bit of healthy pride and insouciance. Women in Love On one occasion he took Aileen with him to Fargo, where with a haughty, bored insouciance she surveyed the state of the growing city. The Titan And now it was seen that the easy insouciance was gone from his face: the smile had vanished, and in its place there was a look of lofty and contemptuous wrath. Love-at-Arms Even if she had the swagger togs—a notion mad to absurdity—she could never gallop with insouciance. Missy Cecil opened his closed eyes, with the sleepy indifference vanished from them, and a look of genuine and affectionate concern on the serene insouciance of his face. Under Two Flags It was this peculiar insouciance which angered Dr. Stanhope, even more than his son's extravagance. Barchester Towers She had that boundless value which youth and a certain insouciance of manner contribute. The Titan Then, a shade of contempt blending with the former cool insouciance of his tone, he said quietly: "You don't expect an answer to that question, do you?" The Hermit of Far End Such things as perching dizzily atop a horse's back, even cantering in graceful insouciance, seemed far, far away. Missy He had one unchangeable quality—insouciance; and he had, moreover, one unchangeable faith—the King. Under Two Flags Here, in the very shadow of the mountain, he halted for five days, during which, with the usual insouciance of British commanders, he does not seem to have troubled himself with any entrenching. The Great Boer War He looked older and also commoner directly his insouciance departed from him, and one could divine a great deal of primitive savagery beneath his lively grace and boyish charm. A Spirit in Prison "Ah!" said Joe, with his habitual insouciance, "when I told you that they give me the 'ump." The Burning Spear With that and a superb air of insouciance, he made shift to go. The Trampling of the Lilies There was in him a certain mingling of insouciance and melancholy, each of which alternately predominated; the former his by nature, the latter born of circumstances. Under Two Flags He was hard-favoured, and, which was worse, his face bore nothing of the insouciance, the careless frolicsome jollity and vacant curiosity of a sailor on shore. Guy Mannering It was this peculiar insouciance which angered Dr Stanhope, even more than his son's extravagance. Barchester Towers If he were hit hard by Eaton's treachery, no sign of it was apparent in the jaunty insouciance of his manner. Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) She was all bubbling gaiety and insouciance, a charming picture of young English girlhood that nearly made her brother foam at the mouth. A Damsel in Distress |
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