| 单词 | insouciant |
| 例句 | For a moment, his insouciant swagger fails him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Where other elite athletes betray their doubts about their capacities with displays of touchy egotism, Woolf was utterly insouciant. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, she was watching them, smirking and humming insouciantly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In this setting, another, more insouciant company had hunkered down. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Below this, striking her customary insouciant pose, was the B&I Wolverette. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This sorcerer emerges, more than ever, as the presiding intelligence of the reality set before us — playwright, director and star — who bends all to his will with an insouciant wave of the hand. Review: In ‘The Tempest,’ Liberation and Exhilaration 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z The reference points were the button-downs of the 1940s and ’50s, when the Brooks Brothers shirt was firmly established as a crucial element of insouciant collegiate style, the more frayed the better. Brooks Brothers Revives the Preppiest Shirt Collar 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Their urban sensibility was elevated into a national platform for contrarian and anti-authoritarian rebellion, led by a mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, whose misaligned facial features and insouciant grin graced nearly every Mad cover. A World Without Mad Magazine 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z At other times, especially after Philip moves to New York City and lets the insouciant Harry off the leash, the characters we meet through him are rendered more satirically. Review: Who Is ‘Harry Clarke,’ and Why Is He So Appealing? 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Readers familiar with Gaiman’s “Sandman” comic books will recognize the insouciant humor and a similarly fluid sense of time and reality in Bryan Fuller and Michael Green’s television adaptation. Divine drama: “American Gods” answers our prayers for a show worthy of worship 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Sometimes I peer insouciantly over the rims of my glasses. All the weight I didn’t lose 2013-01-22T00:00:00Z Bond, especially Connery’s Bond, was an existential hired gun with an aristocrat’s tastes — just right for a time when class was a matter of brand names and insouciant gestures. The James Bond Films at 50: A Golden Franchise for the Ages 2012-10-05T12:00:58Z Set in Italy’s industrial capital, Turin, during a period when labor unions barely existed, it is insouciant, sentimental, farcical and confounding by turns. 9 Movies About Work to Watch This Labor Day 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z In The New York Review of Sex, an essay by the art historian and anthologist Gregory Battcock invokes Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag and Marshall McLuhan in defense of insouciant sleaze. Art In Review: DAVID PLATZKER 2012-07-05T20:37:54Z Mr. Dyer insouciantly mixes fiction and nonfiction, smuggling invented bits into the seams of his reported essays and stitching long threads of transparently autobiographical material into his novels. Review: ‘White Sands’ Asks Why We Visit the Places We Do 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z This includes one that spreads across two walls and is a landscape unto herself, and another in neon that gives an insouciant autonomy to the sign language of topless bars. Museum & Gallery Listings for July 3-9 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z It is rather the insouciant ease with which her images navigate between high and low, making that spirituality widely available, if not irresistible. ‘Agnes of the Desert’ Joins Modernism’s Pantheon 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z USA, whose motto is “Characters Welcome,” has proved successful with a certain kind of light-dark matchup: likable, insouciant characters in dangerous situations is the underlying formula for “Psych” and “Royal Pains” and “Burn Notice.” Television Review: Daniel Sunjata and Aaron Tveit in ‘Graceland’ on USA 2013-06-05T22:10:10Z The playboy publisher and his Daily Sentinel shared a slapdash, insouciant impudence. Float Like a Franchise, Sting Like a ... 2011-01-09T02:13:01Z As soon as we pulled over to enjoy the view before the tunnel, a large green parrot landed on our car hood with an insouciant thump. Mountains? Rain forests? Fjords? New Zealand’s Fiordland National Park has them all. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Alfred E. Neuman’s misaligned features and insouciant grin graced nearly every cover of Mad magazine, which is ceasing publication after sixty-seven years. A World Without Mad Magazine 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z So does the fact that he is ultimately insouciant about the art world, a refreshingly unpretentious person in a relentlessly pretentious scene. Meet Alexander Gilkes, Co-Founder of Paddle8, an Online Auction House 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z But what came out on the runway was less insouciantly casual than the designers had suggested. Special Report: Sleek, Simple-And Ever So Streamlined 2010-02-18T12:49:00Z Right now, Ephron's own spirit lives on, a little, in the movies of Nancy Meyers, comedies about love and anxiety among insouciantly wealthy Americans. Nora Ephron was serious about comedy 2012-06-27T12:12:07Z In “District Merchants,” Posner latest act of insouciant reconstruction, the source of dramatic inspiration is “Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” 'Merchant of Venice' set in post-Civil War America? That's Aaron Posner's 'District Merchants' 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z But a lot of the good stuff sounded like hard work – the knotty prog-punk of At the Drive-In, Godspeed You Black Emperor!'s anarchist post-rock – and the Strokes' brand of insouciant cool appeared effortless. The Strokes: Angles ? review 2011-03-17T15:30:01Z "Ulysses," his masterpiece, commemorated one pivotal day: On June 10, 1904, young Jim Joyce met an insouciant redhead strolling along a Dublin sidewalk; their first date was six days later. 'James Joyce': How the writer's life led to the words that survive him 2012-06-27T20:37:04Z Despite the insouciant wit, ironic intelligence and wounded heart, “Significant Other” didn’t earn its two hours and 20 minutes of stage time. Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z A tale in which even the most minor infractions to male self-esteem are settled through the arcane code of dueling, “Rules of Seconds” exploits the suspense of its situation with an insouciant tongue-in-cheek spirit. Amy Brenneman as a damsel in distress? 'Rules of Seconds' has some surprises up its sleeve 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Where the Grimms’ flatness of tone is harsh, Comyns’s voice is insouciant and — yes — charming. Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z He's a brilliant, mercurial actor, alternately twinkling and smirking, calm and volatile, intense and insouciant, intelligent and suddenly adrift. Shattered ? a stonking showcase for its mesmerising hero 2010-10-18T23:05:00Z Started in 1986, the quartet flew a flag of conviction in an insouciant era: First-generation indie rock was on the up, with bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth proposing abstention as rebellion. To Make the Messthetics, Mix a Reunion With One Virtuosic Newcomer 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Like any of Mr. Furst’s insouciant spies in the making, he starts off with an almost casual view of the dangers mounting around him. Books of The Times: Wartime Greece in Alan Furst?s ?Spies of the Balkans? 2010-06-16T22:08:00Z In the beginning of the second act, when Manon is living in luxury in Paris, she sounded alert and insouciant, yet warm. Opera Review: Anna Netrebko in ‘Manon Lescaut,’ at the Rome Opera 2014-03-03T17:53:28Z Smith poses insouciantly, in black and white, with a jacket tossed over the shoulder like Sinatra. Patti Smith, an accidental rock legend, has finally become the artist she always wanted to be 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Appearing onstage in dresses, flowing suits and shiny space gear, he undid gender conventions with insouciant ease. ‘Moonage Daydream’ Review: David Bowie’s Sound and Vision 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z “Persepolis,” by contrast, dances with drama and insouciant wit. Review: ‘Persepolis,’ by Marjane Satrapi 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z He was as insouciant as he gets in Roger Quilter’s “Three Shakespeare Songs,” and in his element for Mussorgsky’s “Songs and Dances of Death.” René Pape in a Solo Recital at the Metropolitan Opera House 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z But serious concerns underlie the insouciant high jinks. Geffen Playhouse's 'Guards at the Taj' has elements of 'Godot' and gallows humor 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z As soon as the meeting ended, Ms. Pels stepped into the hall, checked the data on her phone and kicked one heel insouciantly behind her, a fun fearless female. At Cosmopolitan Magazine, Data Is the New Sex 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Sullivan creates a period atmosphere of breezy charm in the winsome production, which features several members of the Pearl's resident acting company who are expert at insouciant, perceptive farce. Review: 2 J.M. Barrie comedies smart, breezy 2013-05-07T21:01:15Z He plays the arrogant, insouciant Williams, who competes alongside Lee in a sinister competition organised by the mysterious Mr Han on a James Bond-style island. Enter the Dragon star Jim Kelly dies aged 67 2013-07-01T15:38:47Z Murray, insouciant and cool as always, intones “Well, I knew it was going to be a huge movie.” Watch the Ghostbusters Cast Reunite on NBC's Today Show 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z He appears to be teaching them an insouciant move that Twyla Tharp might envy. Wood Gaylor, Quietly Dazzling, Helped an Art World Invent Itself 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z There is a heady mix of insouciant charm, playful irony and risible pretentiousness throughout the Museum of Modern Art’s new Bjork retrospective, which opens on Sunday. Why is MoMA featuring an exhibit showcasing Bjork’s pretentiousness? 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The baleful results of their insouciant map-drawing are still being felt today, notably in the turmoil of Syria and Iraq. A most terrible year 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z And then the fourth starts and suddenly there's Rojo, in white, threading an insouciant diagonal of fouetté-pirouettes, and gazing about her with the radiant entitlement of a young Elizabeth Taylor. Tamara Rojo 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z With the jut of her hip, the jacket slung over her bony shoulder and that slight tilt to her chin, the effect should be completely insouciant. Patti Smith: how she rocks our world 2012-05-26T23:15:26Z Walker, in the role of insouciant, irresponsible Berger, was the most commanding presence on stage — with or without his shirt and pants on. This 'Hair' makes it easy to be heartened 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Smith’s nine canvases insouciantly sum up the show’s no-holds-barred attitude, tripping the light fantastic with works variously monochrome, gestural and figurative, as well as a kitschy sunset and the artist’s signature, writ goofily large. ‘The Forever Now,’ a Survey of Contemporary Painting at MoMA 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z And the insouciant “Dock Scene” justifies comparisons to the work of another great perpetrator of the light touch, Raoul Dufy. Art Review: ‘William Wegman: Hello Nature’ at Bowdoin College Museum 2012-08-16T17:46:55Z Anyway, as with all action movies we're hoping for some great taglines, little insouciant bon mots that true action heroes casually drop after some piece of mayhem. The Expendables 2 – review 2012-08-16T14:29:00Z The original stories were always heavily invested in a certain ideal of Frenchness — charming, gallant, insouciant. Lupin: introducing anglophone audiences to a more socially conscious gentleman thief 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Her insouciant swagger is part of a quirky, 40th-anniversary promotional video for Hong Kong Ballet, set to Ravel’s “Boléro.” Amid upheavals, there’s good news in Hong Kong: Its ballet thrives 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The great strength of South Park has always been its insouciant sense of liberation. South Park pandemic special: a biting and surprisingly affecting satire 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z The show takes an insouciant attitude toward the butterfly effect, the notion — central to most time-travel fantasies — that the slightest change made in the past will ripple forward and affect the present. Review: In ‘Timeless,’ a Time-Traveling Trio and a High-Stakes Chase 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Myriad highlights include Jez's insouciant disregard for the mathematics of permutation – "just try all the variations," he advises Mark, who can't quite remember a phone number off the top of his head. Tonight's TV highlights: Natural World 2010-12-17T00:05:01Z For his part, Freeman insouciantly joked: “I think the people who are resisting the idea of climate change are stupid.” Morgan Freeman: I think people resisting the idea of climate change are stupid 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z And Ms. Mearns is marvelous — relaxed, independent, insouciantly twisting her shoulders and feet, then floating with grace. Review: A Quieter, Virtual Fall for Dance, With Starriness Intact 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z In the first Matrix movie from 1999, Reeves’ Neo symbolises the triumph of insouciant youth over effort. Sad Keanu 2: why The Matrix without Reeves would be a journey down the wrong rabbit hole 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Now he sticks to pieces you can hold in one or two hands: busts of loved ones, an insouciant Franklin D. Roosevelt, a pensive Albert Einstein, a seated J.S. Sculptor's creative juices still flowing at 93 2010-12-20T19:16:02Z He is the auteur wannabe auteurs want to be and remains the most dazzling, inventive, stylish, insouciantly brilliant yet confrontationally political film-maker the medium has ever seen. Jean-Luc Godard nostalgia: is it time to stop pining for the great director’s past? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Faced with criticism of the book’s uncredited reliance on anthropological research, Andrade offered up, in an open letter, a typically insouciant response: “I copied Brazil.” New Translations Explore Brazil’s ‘Endless and Unfinished’ Character 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z It made the band seem fun, carefree, insouciant. Reviving the Pop-Punk Innocence of Blink-182 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z She seemed so insouciant, and at he same time, very smart. Q&A: Author Erik Larson nervously awaits arrival of 'Beasts' 2011-05-09T15:32:05Z In her marvellously insouciant self-portrait, the artist appears in spectacles, wicker chair and nothing else but her own defiant intelligence. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z He was, after all, a climbing snob of the first order, a courtier, and he needed a background of fixed social hierarchy against which to do his insouciant but fawning thing. Art Review: Cecil Beaton?s Work at Museum of City of New York - Review 2011-11-10T23:02:14Z Forget about “Drynuary,” which I broke on Jan. 2 with that insouciant leftover chardonnay in the door of the fridge. I Quit Chewing Gum 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The man’s shirt worn insouciantly by a woman may not be a breakthrough concept but it was a refreshing symbol of the designer’s new attitude. Special Report: Fashion: Reviews: Paul Smith and Matthew Williamson 2011-09-19T17:53:44Z It comes courtesy of Pan Pan Theater, an Irish company with an insouciant approach to the classics. Immersed in ‘Stranger Things,’ Then Strolling to Beckett 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Taking a longer view, how is this incident anything other than the first insouciant crocus of an impending Persian Spring? The Pharrell Williams, “Footloose” paradox: Why Iran should really fear Brooklyn 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The wedding, the characters frequently remark, with the mixture of insouciant mockery and cosmopolitan self-congratulation that seems to have become the hallmark of this weary franchise, is a gay one. | 'Sex and the City 2': Sarah Jessica Parker, Flying Down to Abu Dhabi 2010-05-26T20:10:00Z A reliable exception are interviews with the ever insouciant and intelligent Paul McCartney, and this series will offer six episodes of the former Beatle in conversation about music with the producer Rick Rubin. 26 Summer Shows, No Mask Required 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Her comical images of people in seedy bars and other downbeat situations rendered in an insouciantly contradictory variety of styles are displayed at Jungle Press Editions. Art Review: Metro Show and Editions/Artists’ Book Fair 2013-01-24T22:27:36Z He also has insouciant good looks, with a jaw so chiseled its points look sharp, and a capable voice that sounds good live and records even better. Review | German baritone Benjamin Appl announces his U.S. arrival with a generous Phillips program 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z While not quite as original as his mobiles or stabiles, Calder’s bronzes are shot through with his irrepressible spirit and talent for insouciant distillation. Art Review: ‘Calder: The Complete Bronzes’ at L&M Arts 2012-11-08T22:38:37Z Back home in Biloxi, Miss., he mixed and matched Victorian, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts and Asian styles with insouciant, seemingly effortless panache. Review: In ‘No Two Alike,’ George Ohr’s Pottery Plays on Convention 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Its performance is almost perfect: an apparently insouciant ease belies the intensely clever, dynamic writing and carefully limited perspective. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z And while I expected to meet people electrified by political change, I mainly encountered cautious optimism mixed with insouciant shrugs toward the politicians. Don’t Sleep on Tunis, a City That’s More Awake Than Ever Before 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Westerberg, 54, still has the slender build, flashy wardrobe and insouciant intensity of a rocker. The Replacements Play at Forest Hills Stadium 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z "The Frugal Meal," from 1904, is an early high point, with its two down-and-out characters draped around each other in a stoical yet insouciant Toulouse-Lautrec manner. Picasso fever comes to the Seattle Art Museum with show from the Mus?e National Picasso, Paris 2010-10-03T01:41:00Z As the insouciant protagonist quips, “I think therefore I scam.” ‘Chameleon Street’: The Art of the Con 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Deschanel is perfectly insouciant in the lighthearted “On the Island,” singing about a pleasantly rundown shack with “no food, no pets, no premium cable.” Review: Brian Wilson’s Nostalgic, Reflective ‘No Pier Pressure’ 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z The magnetic Schneider is charming, insouciant and snaky as Christian, and the actor plays the role with noticeable aplomb. With his role as the baddie in “The Daughter,” Paul Schneider completes a hat trick of films: “In my teen years I was surrounded by older, crazy rednecks that I was desperate to impress” 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Fine-drawn and fleet of foot, he negotiates the ferociously hard choreography with insouciant ease and a precisely calibrated edge of irony. Royal Ballet triple bill ? review 2011-03-20T00:05:21Z She said this last part, about the mugs, with such a charmingly insouciant shrug that by the time she signed off — “Can’t wait to see you, cheers” — I felt, actually, happy for her. The Triumph of the Celebrity Endorsement 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Anna Chancellor's rangy thoroughbred Amanda is thrilling, exuding the mixture of jagged sophistication and nervy restlessness that the role demands, along with an intense neediness beneath the insouciant exterior. Private Lives – review 2013-07-04T11:35:00Z In one vignette after another, this insouciant spoliator applies reverse psychiatry on his opponents until they suffer traumatic eczema and require therapy in a sanitarium. Jason Bateman’s Dry Spell 2014-03-13T10:09:49Z His lethally brilliant satirical nightmare behaved insouciantly, as if it was nothing more than a very effective shocker, scaring up big profits from thrill-seeking young moviegoers. George A Romero: the zombie master whose ideas infected American cinema 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z The most flamboyant and public piece is “Lady Rosa of Luxembourg,” an insouciant sculpture installation that has taken over the museum’s atrium. Art Review: Sanja Ivekovic?s ?Sweet Violence? at Museum of Modern Art - Review 2011-12-15T23:26:19Z Wishing to appear insouciant, he told the director that he was on his way to an art gallery. John Boyega: storming from Peckham to galactic fame | Observer profile 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Derrick, however, is also the prime locus of the film’s insouciant hypocrisy, since it wants to paint him as a slobbering, exploitative cretin while inviting the audience to savor the fruits of that cretinism. | 'Piranha 3D': Richard Dreyfuss Is Back With Biting Fish 2010-08-22T18:51:00Z Where Mr. Brown differs is his starting point: he’s not applying luxury to everyday pieces but, rather, beginning with luxury and giving it an insouciant twist. Delano Brown’s Painted Clothing 2013-06-05T23:01:19Z The curators have placed it, almost insouciantly, at the back of a room full of Leonardo’s scientific sketches and mathematical speculations. Review | Quiet, please. At the Louvre’s ‘Léonard de Vinci’ exhibition, you’re in the presence of genius. 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Schwarz and the orchestra tossed the five-minute piece off with insouciant brilliance, and then moved on to deeper but not less happy concerns. Review: At SSO, music both new and attractive 2011-06-03T18:20:54Z Snoo used fiercely imagined characters in comic and often savage works that nevertheless, in the best plays, demonstrated an insouciant knowledge of dramatic structure. Snoo Wilson obituary 2013-07-05T17:57:52Z The horrendous allegations about Cosby elicited, at first, an insouciant shrug. What Shielded Bill Cosby? 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Very much an American homage to the French new wave movie, “Hallelujah” suggests a frothy “Jules and Jim” made in the insouciant style of “Shoot the Piano Player.” An Avant-Garde Film That Went for Laughs Instead of Scandal 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z “Spindle Shuttle Needle,” a winner of Clubbed Thumb’s past biennial commission, joins a jauntily postmodern company of plays that refract history through the insouciant lens of the present. Review: In ‘Spindle Shuttle Needle,’ History With Strings Attached 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z But she just shrugged lightly and said, “It wasn’t a kick, it was a step,” demonstrating with an insouciant smile. Gina Carano Makes Film Debut in ?Haywire? 2012-01-01T18:02:37Z And Waller-Bridge, with the casual, quick-witted charm she displayed in the series, was the insouciant queen of the awards. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2019 Emmys 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z One afternoon, driving in the car with her father, she insouciantly asked how he would feel if it turned out that she wasn’t his—that they weren’t biologically related after all. Can Surrogacy Remake the World? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z She sometimes seemed an older, perhaps not entirely benevolent sister to the more insouciant Ms. Maywald, laughing secrets into her ear as Ms. Thom, in an embroidered militaristic coat, circled at something of a remove. Dance Review: New Ideas Between Twists and Turns 2011-03-18T22:04:29Z When Chishiya's partner loses his nerve, he's left as the odd man out, relying on his insouciant swagger to exacerbate the other characters' insecurities. Why some see this "Alice in Borderland" breakout as a role model for survival 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z He’s insouciant and funny; he lives by a code; he may not be Robin Hood, but he limits himself to robbing hoods. ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z In that time period, she’s gotten married and had kids, but her music remains the same insouciant pop that garnered her fame in the mid 2000s. Your week in Seattle music: Ryan Adams, Lily Allen and more 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z And her presentation of her character’s emotion was so unvaried that the transition from insouciant enchantress to abandoned lover — which represents the work’s main dramatic motor — never quite came into focus. Review | Strong women take the lead in Washington National Opera’s ‘Alcina’ 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z In a billboard picture we see of Charlotte taken by David Bailey, the reigning celebrity photographer of swinging England, she looks every inch an insouciant ’60s “bird.” | 'London Boulevard': ?London Boulevard,? With Colin Farrell - Review 2011-11-11T00:07:02Z Both captured the slightly depressing physical environment of a European capital that hadn’t quite recovered from the war, and both put their brash, insouciant characters front and center and paid little attention to plot. “A Hard Day’s Night”: The rock musical that made history 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z In its jaunty and insouciant way, this is actually pretty subversive: a film about strikers who are not evil, or deluded, or indeed defeated? Film review: Made in Dagenham 2010-09-30T10:59:00Z He was also a wartime photojournalist in Cambodia, and those photos are as haunting as his cinematic photos are insouciant. T Magazine: Paris, Off the Runway 2012-02-28T21:10:45Z The only human interaction that isn't plot exposition is a kind of insouciant banter, in which everyone reaffirms his or her indifference to death and danger. Rewind TV: Hunted; Monroe; Arena: The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour; Best Possible Taste: the Kenny Everett Story; Exposure: the Other Side of Jimmy Savile; Welcome to India – review 2012-10-06T23:05:46Z In his new novel, “French Exit,” deWitt serves up a modern story, a satire about an insouciant widow on a quest for refined self-immolation. The Stealth Absurdism of Patrick deWitt’s “French Exit” 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z He responded with a jaunty, insouciant account of Bach’s Gavotte from the solo Partita No. 3 in E major. Vadim Gluzman delivers power and passion with SSO | Classical review 2013-03-15T16:59:25Z In it, Charli — who is often bold and insouciant in her music — shows real vulnerability, revealing the immense mental toll of the self-imposed pressure to create. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The girl’s eyes were large chestnut jewels, insouciant underneath ash-blonde curls. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z However, the young Ms. Green is more than just a nostalgic, flannel-era fabulist; her singsong hooks are conduits to lyrics of shrewd self-awareness and insouciant honesty, and her distorted guitars have palpable strength. Pop & Rock Listings for April 10-16 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Personally, 21 Jump Street’s Dave Franco seems the best of the current candidates, though his brother James has the insouciant swagger to really make the role his own. Disney will truly know the power of Star Wars' dark side if it ruins Darth Vader and Han Solo 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Once, he writes in his new book, “Modern Romance,” a would-be girlfriend’s failure to respond to his effortfully insouciant text sent him spinning helplessly into a “tornado of panic and hurt and anger.” Review: Aziz Ansari’s ‘Modern Romance’ Explores Dating in the Digital Age 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Or are they the final survivors of some terrible catastrophe clinging on, not by their fingertips, but with an insouciant grace, finding new ways to adapt to their ever-changing world? Du Goudron et des Plumes ? review 2011-01-27T22:30:01Z Photograph: Mark Passmore/Apex There's a problem with the copy I'm making of Édouard Manet's Asparagus, one of the most insouciant of his still lifes. How easy is it to copy a famous painting? 2013-07-22T07:00:09Z She calls herself insouciant, but she can be feverish, and even a little histrionic. Laura Kipnis’s Battle Against Vulnerability 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z He says he’s a student, and glows with a magnetic, insouciant masculinity, with just the right amount of enticing mystery about his background. Review: In ‘Sandra,’ a Search for a Friend Leads to Self-Discovery 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z The supple, insouciant Jones of yore peeks through the paraphernalia on the wistful "She's 22" and the divine "Travelin' On," with cello and chugging acoustic guitar. Norah Jones gets a makeover from producer Danger Mouse 2012-04-30T21:28:03Z The Alchemist line is plush and insouciant, its textiles and treatments top tier but intended to be worn in repose. Alchemy, Miami Style 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z But as performed with insouciant wit and indefatigable physicality by the attractive and flamboyantly costumed young members of the Flea’s resident acting ensemble, the Bats, “Restoration Comedy” celebrates a libertine spirit that’s hard to deny. | ‘Restoration Comedy’: ‘Restoration Comedy’ by Amy Freed at the Flea Theater 2012-12-25T22:30:02Z And if I seem insouciant, it’s not because I’m not taking it seriously, or I feel some residual coating of shame at re-entering an institution I’ve already traduced once. I do, again: ‘There is nothing as deadly serious as a second marriage’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Distraught and nearly frantic, she broke with her boyfriend that very evening and is seeking refuge and comfort in her father’s insouciantly bohemian digs. Review: A Man and a Woman (and Another Woman) in ‘Lover for a Day’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Once the prototypical long-haired, insouciant rocker, he now affects an avuncular look, with a shock of snow white hair, à la the older Cary Grant, and a pair of black Buddy Holly specs. Nick Lowe, Back With a New Album, ?That Old Magic? 2011-09-13T19:59:12Z This includes one that spans two walls and is a landscape unto herself, and another in neon that gives an insouciant autonomy to the sign language of topless bars. Museum & Gallery Listings for July 10-16 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Then there's Sam Rockwell's excellent Justin Hammer, a smarmy, deeply sad Stark wannabe who's willing to do anything to grab himself just a smidgen of his rival's insouciant cool. You review: Iron Man 2 2010-05-04T11:23:00Z These charmingly insouciant short stories by the noted critic, poet and essayist exhibit the same surreal whimsy that distinguishes his work in other formats. New & Noteworthy, From Jazz-Age Cairo to a Catholic Memoir 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Miró evolves before our eyes, with insouciant naturalness, from a detailed painter of the countryside to an artist of the inner eye's carnival. Joan Mir?'s art is more alive than ever 2011-08-15T12:08:33Z True to the event’s insouciant spirit – the Independent Filmmaker Project is host of the event, with the awards selected by a group of industry insiders, writers and critics – the array of nominations was broad. 'Boyhood' Leads Gotham Film Nominations 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z “I do not know how those offensive images could be defended,” one said. A flurry of insouciant memes, posted to the main thread, made light of the students’ fate. Harvard’s Ugly Offshoot of Campus Meme Culture 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z And Wood remains forever stylish and insouciant in the courtyard of the Museum of Modern Art. When Filming in New York, the City Is Always the Star 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. How a Poet Named Ocean Means to Fix the English Language 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Her jazzy new geometric-gestural paintings, which are fierce of color and thick of paint applied with zealous offhandedness, demonstrate commitment issues and an insouciant ambiguity that is very fashionable. Art in Review: IDA EKBLAD 2011-10-06T20:59:39Z The wild-man stories suit a popular view of Pollock, just as the insouciant gesture of snipping eight inches off someone else’s canvas suits a certain view of Duchamp. A Clear Look at Jackson Pollock’s Breakthrough Painting, “Mural” 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z The screenwriters, Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, both much influenced by Hitchcock, had radically reworked the plot and the characters and most significantly had invented the insouciant cricket-loving Englishmen, Charters and Caldicott. My favourite Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes 2012-07-24T09:23:46Z The designer has an insouciant way of switching between a luxurious and a gritty aesthetic. 2010-02-14T13:00:00Z He’s insouciant about the deed but his teacher screeches her astonishment. The Odyssey of a Gay Black Football-Star Banker, From ‘Peasant Boy’ to the Mountaintop 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z What that insouciant youngster doesn’t know, though, is that I have a very good reason for being here. Britain’s oldest roller coaster is ready to ride after a $30 million park makeover 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z This demand gives the lie to a common misconception of liberalism, namely, that it is an ethic of insouciant self-indulgence, a politics for blithe egoists. Why liberalism drives so many people crazy 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z Reva said he was confident that the soul of Odesa — insouciant, sardonic, seductive — would survive the war. This Ukrainian was famed for playful sculptures. Now his art melds war debris and rage 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Trump defiantly planned a victory lap and campaign event for his arraignment day—the media complied by covering him as insouciant. "This was his campaign plan": Trump has flipped the stolen documents case into "a farce" 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z On one side of her imaginary rocket, two women strike the insouciant pose of Lucas Cranach’s the Elder’s 1529 canvas, “Venus standing in a landscape.” With cars and kaiju, artists Umar Rashid and Frieda Toranzo Jaeger subvert American myth 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Last year it updated their looks, making the group more “inclusive” in the company’s term, slightly changing their garb and endowing them with insouciant grins and smirks. Column: The right wing pitched an absurd tantrum over M&M's. It worked. 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z From the moment he burst onto the world cinema stage, Godard operated with both a cool, insouciant defiance of cinema’s entrenched rules and traditions and a refusal to unpack his meanings for easy consumption. Appreciation: Jean-Luc Godard, a master of cinema who changed the medium forever 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Take “Heroin,” for example, a wellspring of what would later be called punk or alternative, the “Like a Rolling Stone” of commercially insouciant rock music. Lou Reed’s earliest transformation 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z But Elmer, the object of his obsessive attention, is charmed by Taffeta’s insouciant freedom and so a theatrical game ensues. Review: Was Abraham Lincoln gay? A new play in L.A. imagines his life through a queer lens 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z This, like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s splendidly insouciant visit to Taiwan, will diminish today’s fatalism about China — the fallacious assumption that its trajectory is inevitably upward, so it must be accommodated. Opinion | China’s decline may be looming. Here’s how the U.S. can win, if it so chooses. 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z But the workmanlike music for “The Devil Wears Prada” lacks the insouciant spirit of his best pieces. Review | New musical version of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ trips on the runway 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Contrary to his insouciant image, he was angry and jealous, those who knew him testified. Opinion | Johnny Depp and Other Pirates 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z Leary would soon come to be known as a leading apostle of psychedelic drugs, and for a time this little beach resort accommodated tripping acolytes under his insouciant tutelage. A Return Trip to Timothy Leary’s Psychedelic, Day-Glo Mexico 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z They have had enough of an insouciant leader with bold plans to transform Europe into a real “power”; they want a president attentive to their needs as prices rise and salaries stagnate. Emmanuel Macron, Victorious, Searches for Reinvention 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Now he’s wandering around the pitch at Elland Road in a very carefree, casual, insouciant style, sending out a clear message to one and all: he’s totally committed to Tottenham*. Leeds v Tottenham: Premier League – live! 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z But some essential truth about life is captured in the insouciant flow. Review: 'The Band's Visit' brings its musical poetry to Dolby Theatre 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Particularly the coolly insouciant way the referees skate backward, like they’re just kind of hanging out. An arts critic and a hockey fan go to a Kraken game: A most useful review of the Climate Pledge Arena experience 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z In addition to making me famous, this appearance would capture my insouciant charm. How Far Can You Go to Resist Being the Subject of a Viral Video? 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z I’ve long been devoted to Morris’ books, enticed by the insouciant brilliance of her prose even when the place she was writing about held little interest for me. Column: A father writes to a critic who panned his son's play. The critic responds 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z This shuffle of identities is insouciantly performed as a minstrel carnival. Review: L.A. theater is back with a boundary-breaking 'Octoroon' outdoors at the Fountain 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z He also accused the prime minister of demonstrating "an insouciant, a flippant, a casual disregard for the accuracy of what he says". Raab dismisses 'gossip' as he defends Johnson over flat revamp costs 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Resting their first-choice players for Tuesday's World Cup qualifier against the Czech Republic, Wales struck an early winning goal thanks to Kieffer Moore's insouciant finish. Moore earns Wales win over Mexico 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z At a time when I haven’t been in an office in nearly a year, it’s fun to see what people — insouciantly elegant French people, mind you — are wearing to work. Sunday Best: French sitcom ‘Call My Agent!’ offers laughs, world-class eye-rolling and a refreshing dose of workwear 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Yet it lacks a certain living spark: Despite the occasional sharp line, Nolan never quite feels comfortable with humor, and his directing style is hardly what you’d call insouciant. Review: 'Tenet' has arrived. But is it spectacular enough to lure you back to movie theaters? 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The recording “epitomizes the jaunty, insouciant, verge-of-overbearing Sinatra,” one critic said of the album. Johnny Mandel, film composer who wrote 'Shadow of Your Smile' and theme to 'MASH', has died 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z What a fantastic line – and, sung in that choppy, insouciant way, one of most memorable in 2000s pop. Madonna: where to start in her back catalogue 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z In fact, the PM seems to be getting more insouciant by the day. I’ve been ill for months, but I still don't know if it is Covid-19 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z The music, meanwhile, sashays insouciantly along – in another inspired theft, the guitar part is swiped from Alvin Cash’s 1968 funk hit Keep on Dancing. David Bowie's 50 greatest songs – ranked! 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Chloe is credited with inventing the concept of ready-to-wear clothing, and this show impressively trod a path between the insouciant, indolent ethos that is the house signature and a quasi-regal style. Chloe sparkles as giant Paris fashion exhibit space opens 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z With its mix of insouciant form and outrageous content, “Zola” got the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. dramatic competition off to a flashy start on Friday afternoon. At Sundance, the hellish journeys of ‘Zola’ and ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z His performance at Anfield on Wednesday was a timely reminder that, for all the frustrations, few players in the world have his ability to strip a defence naked with such insouciant élan. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z They should have seen it coming: the insouciant yet relentless disco beat speaks to a strategic mind hard at work behind the deceptively sugary facade. 50 great tracks for October by Alicia Keys, DaBaby, Angel Olsen and more 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Ellen may not be the one who personally sends them behind bars, but Soderbergh and Streep have one last, insouciant ace up their sleeve. Review: No one comes out clean in 'The Laundromat,' Steven Soderbergh's playful Panama Papers comedy 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z It’s a useful reminder that Cameron, so often dismissed as an insouciant optimist, is at heart a very practical politician. 'Some people I will never convince': Cameron reflects on his Brexit legacy 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, he built a media profile as an insouciant, high-living apex predator. Opinion | The Real Donald Trump Is a Character on TV 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The brilliant Pass That Dutch is primary evidence – a sinister, sparse backing track with a Technicolor vocal performance: at turns insouciant, commanding, intense and very funny, complete with a faux acceptance speech. Missy Elliott's solo singles – ranked! 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Each year, an understudy you never heard of, some skinny kid with lint on his lip and an insouciant scowl, makes his mark, becomes a star and continues the great Dodger legacy. Postcard From L.A.: A classic ballyard that feels like home, even in the nosebleeds 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z But we’re struggling to recall many that have combined the two, as Cubillas did with that delicious, insouciant pass into the top corner. The Joy of Six: football and the outside of the boot | Rob Smyth 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Markey and Davis looked at the audience insouciantly, waved and walked offstage, leaving us with the mildly eerie bear, as if to telegraph: We haven’t rejoined your world. A small Seattle theater takes a gamble, importing an experimental New York show 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z He’s insouciant about the cost of his impromptu philanthropy — “Every need I addressed was greater than yours.” Ian McEwan spins a sci-fi love triangle with a man, a woman and an android 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Michael’s reply distills the insouciant self-aware humor of the show: “You’re not focusing on the positive here, Jeff. I got the part! I won!” Review: ‘Tootsie’ gives Broadway its funniest musical since ‘Book of Mormon’ 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Later, strolling through the delegates’ lounge in olive-green uniform and polished black boots, the former guerilla was insouciant. Curtains opened on UN security council for first time since attack on Che Guevara 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z On all these ethical issues, and the crucial issue of data and privacy, Metcalfe is breezily insouciant, “deferring social and political change for another discussion”. Globe to gut: inside Big Food 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The English title aptly conveys the movie’s dexterous tone, which is by turns tender, wistful and oddly insouciant. Review: Christophe Honoré's 'Sorry Angel' is an exquisitely funny and bittersweet gay love story 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z In a based-on-a-true-story “Green Book” world, cops no longer harass black motorists and dyed-in-the-wool racists acquiesce, with an insouciant shrug, to the changing of the times. Opinion | Racism isn’t dead. Black Americans still need a ‘Green Book.’ 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z With her swerving limbs and insouciant mugging, Hood’s lively performance spills over with musical comedy brio. Review: Sweeney Todd, Sondheim's throat-cutting barber, sets up shop in South Coast Rep's entertaining revival 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Lorenzo Ferro makes his insouciantly seductive screen debut as the baby-faced criminal in this sensual twist on a “Bonnie & Clyde” tale. Under the radar films from 2018: French feminist horror, seduction and rom-coms! 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Momoa, from the insouciant way he flips his long locks to the knowing smirk he displays in many scenes, seems to be enjoying himself in the role. ‘Aquaman’ sinks under weight of endless battles 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Also appropriate for charity or fundraising functions, providing the facade of a contest yet keeping an insouciant atmosphere to the proceedings. How to pick the right format for your golf outing - Golf Digest 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z When I finally saw him on stage – an insouciant, charming presence, laughing and leaping his way through Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering – he made me cry. 'He was flying': how Rudolph Nureyev defied gravity 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z In any case, this gory, frenetic jape is less interested in quibbling over semantics than in signaling its own insouciant self-awareness. Review: Shane Black's 'The Predator' is a snarky, gory reboot with some ugly baggage 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z With the individual so totally melded into the larger whole, performing for the glorification of the leader, the games have been criticized as an insouciant homage to authoritarianism. N. Korea revives iconic mass games for 70th anniversary gala 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z But, he added insouciantly, “For me it will be all right. I am most tired and extremely bored by this lazy peacetime life.” Opinion | The West may be sleepwalking into another catastrophe 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z The most common was a caress of his mullet, which he would flick forward insouciantly from behind his ears. The weird world of football's greatest conman Carlos Kaiser | Rob Smyth 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z And how long before the insouciant bushbuck realize that Gorongosa’s predators are multiplying and headed their way? In Mozambique, a Living Laboratory for Nature’s Renewal 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z As a teen, my social goals revolved around attaining an elaborately choreographed, best friends’ handshake – practised yet insouciant, a finger-slapping, synchronous back and forth with over-the-shoulder detail, and explosive sound effects. The art of the handshake: if you’re doing it like Trump, you’re doing it wrong 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z However arbitrary her views, I soon learned, the Frenchwoman in these books is always the same person: Parisian, insouciant, effortlessly chic, usually white, untouched by any hint of cultural strife or political upheaval. Letter of Recommendation: ‘Live Like a French Woman’ Books 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z None were more painful than her slow fade last year against Ostapenko, one of those insouciant youngsters. Can Simona Halep Finally Make Her Major Breakthrough? 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z With deft calculation, sharp timing and the faintest of eye-rolls, this insouciant charmer slips into its own private corner where the rules of that restroom apply: no boys allowed. Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett pull off an enjoyable, low-fizz heist in 'Ocean's 8' At The Post, he had no interest in the high-profile national desk, preferring to cover quirky local stories with a hint of the insouciant style about to come. Tom Wolfe, apostle of ‘New Journalism’ who captured extravagance of his times, dies at 88 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z And it’s exhilarating, like when one triumphant Jaeger gazes down at a downed opponent after a climactic fight and insouciantly lifts its middle fingers. Review: ‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ is cheer-at-the-screen fun 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z A commanding presence in fashion from the moment he presented his first collection in Paris at the age of 24, Givenchy became synonymous with elegance and an insouciant glamor. Givenchy, tower of French fashion and tailor to the stars, dies at 91 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z On “Eus Keus”, whose title is a traditional Cornish saying which, with typical insouciant dryness, asks whether or not there is cheese, she joyfully reels off a list of Cornish place names. On “Le Kov”, pop music meets the Cornish revival 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Gilbert’s fizzy libretto, which insouciantly parodies operatic conventions, unfolds as a series of convoluted scenarios. 'Pirates of Penzance,' with a piña colada: Gilbert & Sullivan plays as interactive party 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z They’re giving it their all—an opinion testified by the day’s scores and highlights—yet the players are noticeably looser than usual, their strides more casual, their shoulders insouciant. How the Tournament of Champions keeps frostbite golfers warm - Golf Digest 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The suavely insouciant star of seven James Bond films. Notable deaths in 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z A commanding presence in fashion from the moment he presented his first collection in Paris at the age of 24, Givenchy became synonymous with elegance and an insouciant glamor. Givenchy, tower of French fashion and tailor to the stars, dies at 91 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Sure, he’s 67, but with his insouciant wit and boyish enthusiasm – captured in this creepy clip from 1968 – he seems to possess the eternal youth and vigor of the prototypical Trumpist justice. Long after Trump is gone, we'll still be fighting him | Corey Robin 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Some of his fellow CIA officers, with less experience of dealing with the Brits, mistook their slightly insouciant manner for a sign of approval. How Britain did Gaddafi’s dirty work 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z More cowboys, private eyes and military roles followed, not to mention insouciant charmers, homicidal preachers and other morally ambivalent types, and Times critics chronicled his progress across a five-decade career: What The Times' critics said about eight of Robert Mitchum's best-known roles 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The local history museum has a photo of him smoking insouciantly while wheeling a cart of ore out of the mine. Under siege by liberals: the town where everyone owns a gun 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The insouciant remarks were the latest in a string. Chris Christie flew close to the sun. Now, he sits under it, defiantly. 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Heart's insouciantly rapacious capitalism is, appropriately, the grossly throbbing heart of the series. Blood Drive’s dystopian cannibal future is just the present, with more visible gore 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Hemingway, the product of a much more stable and conventional Midwestern family, never went to college but always exuded an intellectual confidence and insouciant athleticism that made him a great favorite with the opposite sex. Opinion | Hemingway and Dos Passos, great friends destined to be great enemies 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z 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 The glamorously insouciant MacLaine wears a brave face enlivening the hackneyed script. Still fiery Shirley MacLaine is let down by predictable 'The Last Word' 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z In managing to be both deadly serious and insouciant, “Hell or High Water” is reminiscent of “The Sting,” 1973’s winner. Oscars select nine unique films as contenders — or are they? 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z First impressions of insouciantly woozy execution disintegrate in registrations of texture and touch. Marisa Merz’s Factory of Dreams 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Where the characters in the original film were blissfully insouciant about their self-destructive hedonism, they are here all too aware of the cul-de-sacs and dead ends at which they've now arrived. T2 Trainspotting: A giddy high or painful comedown? - BBC News 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z “The Brand New Testament” doesn’t have its predecessor’s visionary strangeness, and it’s much more insouciantly comic in tone. Clever spiritual comedy 'The Brand New Testament' finds God ... in Brussels 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z It was a little shimmy of her shoulders — cheeky, insouciant — accompanied by a big, toothy grin. I Muted Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton During the Debate. I Still Knew the Score. 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z With insouciant abruptness, Williams can sketch an entire scene or season of feeling. Joy Williams’s Refractory Brilliance 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z He had purged the judiciary; jailed insouciant senior military officers three years ago and installed seemingly compliant successors; and cracked down on the opposition and the news media. As Erdogan Confronts Mutiny, U.S. Reaps More Fear About the Region 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Will the Europeans punish London for its desertion, or does the EU need British markets too much to dare, as insouciant Brexiteers insist? What is Brexit and why does it matter? The EU referendum guide for Americans 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z It wasn’t simply the placing, or the power he achieved with that insouciant flick of the wrist; it was the courage of the shot. Roger Federer: ‘I need the fire, the excitement, the whole rollercoaster’ 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z This strikes some of us as too insouciant about the high passions and deep divisions exposed by this referendum. David Cameron on the prospect of Brexit: ‘Leave want to take the country backwards’ 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Trump’s response was an insouciant intensification of his anti-institutional politics — the judicial system, too, is “rigged.” The ‘big price’ Paul Ryan has paid for supporting Donald Trump 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Still in my first half-century, I was probably being naively insouciant about the relevance of aging and the pitfalls of transparency. Reaching the age when age is a liability — especially for women 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Modric very nearly releases Marcelo into the box down the left with an insouciant flick of the outside of his boot. Manchester City 0-0 Real Madrid: Champions League semi-final – as it happened 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z As for why he retweets, Trump is insouciant: “I have 14 million people following me between Twitter and Facebook. We start dialogue and it’s very interesting.” Campaign live: Trump lords South Carolina win over rivals as Bush drops out of the race 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z That day in Brooklyn, Jackson wore glasses, a plaid shirt open to just below the clavicles and shoes with insouciant laces that looked ready to untie themselves at any moment. How Chris Jackson Is Building a Black Literary Movement 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z When Americans say one of our cities is “European,” we really mean it is like Paris: open, insouciant, filled with art. Why the World Still Cries for Paris 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z But it’s telegraphed, and not hit with any real venom, so Lloris can gather in the insouciant style. England v France: international friendly – as it happened 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Modric very nearly releases Marcelo into the box down the left with an insouciant flick of the outside of his boot. Manchester City 0-0 Real Madrid: Champions League semi-final – as it happened 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z As for why he retweets, Trump is insouciant: “I have 14 million people following me between Twitter and Facebook. We start dialogue and it’s very interesting.” Campaign live: Trump lords South Carolina win over rivals as Bush drops out of the race 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Visca pulls a brilliant ball into the middle, but there’s nobody up with him, and Ireland mop up in the insouciant style. Republic of Ireland v Bosnia-Herzegovina: Euro 2016 playoff – as it happened 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z So the best place to find traces of the university’s insouciant ethos is the student-run band, which, in a nod to the institution’s full name, calls itself the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band. Stanford Fans Still Expect Oddities When the Band Is Out on the Field 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z But it’s telegraphed, and not hit with any real venom, so Lloris can gather in the insouciant style. England v France: international friendly – as it happened 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z He accused central banks, including the US Fed of "massively and insouciantly pursuing financial instability". The US's interest rate rise dilemma - BBC News 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, his collections for Balenciaga draw an ever finer line between his insouciant, streetwise aesthetic and the iconic house’s heritage of elegant restraint. A Day in the Life of Alexander Wang 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Visca pulls a brilliant ball into the middle, but there’s nobody up with him, and Ireland mop up in the insouciant style. Republic of Ireland v Bosnia-Herzegovina: Euro 2016 playoff – as it happened 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z She was stylish and insouciant; she shoplifted lingerie from Goodwill and wore an orange ribbon tied around her neck. Three Artists, One Love Story 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z We’re watching a period of wonderful, insouciant disrespect here in Cincinnati — proper pronunciation “Sin-Sin-at-a” — as the young bucks are almost unchecked by elders with big credentials. MLB All-Star Game will show the sport has gotten younger — and better 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z With its insouciant stance and saturated pink promise of endless summer, Mr. Featherstone’s flamingo blew his duck out of the water. Don Featherstone, Inventor of the Pink Flamingo (in Plastic), Dies at 79 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Casper, with his insouciant, I'm-the-boss saunter and implacable facial expression, feared no man. Tribute: Billy Casper 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z T-shirts and tote bags display the former president as the embodiment of insouciant cool: drawing on a cigarette, lounging on a sofa, or leaping nonchalantly over a ticket barrier in the Metro. Jacques is back 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Kia has sprung from the shadows of corporate sibling Hyundai with a bold, insouciant brand identity, and it has been working. 2015 Kia K900 Test Drive And Review: Brand New Identity 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Even the most insouciant bad boys need to grow up eventually. What happened to Johnny Depp? How ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ made him, and ruined him. 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z This Oregon Shakespeare Company revival begins in a flamboyantly deconstructed manner, only fitting given that Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical is itself an insouciant deconstruction of classic fairy tales. Critics Picks: Critics' Picks: Dec 19-25, 2014 - Los Angeles Times 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z A decade before Manchester United fans debated the merits of Berbatov, they had the same arguments about Veron – is he lazy or in possession of an insouciant cool? How will Ángel di María compare with British football's record signings? 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z In public he was insouciant, boundless and brave. A genie of jest 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z “It was just better for the story arc,” David insouciantly observed. The Private David Frost 2013-09-03T16:19:00Z Despite her ambivalence, she has become a runaway fashion success story, born on the back of her trademark look, which can be described as equal parts rock 'n' roll, California surfer girl and insouciant Parisienne. The Cult of Isabel Marant 2013-08-22T22:18:43Z His straight brown hair falls over his eyes, and his informality fits with Louisiana’s insouciant let’s-go-for-it negotiating stance on spill damages. How BP Got Screwed on Gulf Oil Spill Claims 2013-06-27T09:43:16Z Thus, beheadings and eviscerations were always delivered with an insouciant irony that made the great moments he described all the more chilling. Bring on a British revolution – it's long overdue 2013-06-15T23:05:30Z The insouciant Australian is banking on organisation and aggression reaping rewards. Six Nations: Team-by-team guide 2013-01-26T22:00:13Z And Branson had been reasonably successful in steering his stylish, insouciant airline through the industry’s frequent turbulence. Virgin Finally Hooks Up: Why Richard Branson Made a Deal With Delta 2012-12-13T13:00:14Z Stanford has a perpetually insouciant fan base; it didn't fill the stadium when Andrew Luck was at his collegiate peak. UCLA should give Stanford a better game second time around 2012-11-30T03:59:04Z It was insouciant and jubilant, with sharply reported city politics pieces sitting next to art house movie reviews and sex ads. Media Decoder Blog: Buzzfeed writer eulogizes a Village Voice that hasn't existed for many years. 2012-08-20T14:14:58Z Usain Bolt's relaxed demeanour has given him an insouciant air which has made him one of the world's most popular athletes. Usain Bolt's effortless cool makes us all yearn to be like him 2012-08-06T06:00:05Z His finish, when he was beating his chest as he crossed the finish line, was so insouciant that some athletes actually found it offensive. London 2012: Usain Bolt braced for greatest sprinting showdown in history 2012-07-20T18:00:03Z When confronted with such critiques, Lawley relies on an insouciant shoulder shrug and boys-will-be-boys bemusement, both common in his adopted field. The New Republic of Porn 2012-06-21T23:53:59Z She remains unbeaten and generally wins with insouciant ease, even against rivals who have themselves won in the highest class. Black Caviar, the Wonder from Down Under, set to shatter racing records 2012-06-16T11:30:12Z The expression of their face is grave, tranquil, and rather insouciant. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z These insouciant men, who take the world so indifferently on ordinary occasions, are always the most fierce when roused. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z Whether in caricature, short story, fable, parody, or essay, he has always been consummate in grace, tact, insouciant airy precision. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z But Ginger was there, ruddy and insouciant, also in a magnificent new jersey. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z He certainly wasn’t as jocular and seemingly insouciant as he was the night before, when he addressed the new accusations in a rather unusual venue, the ABC late-night comedy show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” The TV Watch: A Defiant Herman Cain, Newly Serious, Goes for Broke 2011-11-09T03:00:50Z Never had Wessex—fastidious, fickle, insouciant Wessex—seen anything more radiant, more exquisite, more poetic than this apparition which came towards him like the realization of all his maddest dreams. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z I watched her, on the opposite footpath, strolling down the shady avenue with an insouciant grace. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z I should like to have been that girl again, for half an hour, just to see how it felt to be care-free and insouciant, with the whole beautiful world made expressly for one! The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z "The padrone is a Sicilian," said the maialino, stuffing a huge block of bread into his mouth, and rolling his insouciant eyes of a gay, well-fed little black pig towards the background. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Still, in public, the military affected an insouciant shrug in response to the announcement. U.S. Funding Cut May Do More for Pakistan's Generals Than for Washington's Goals 2011-07-13T09:25:00Z Doctors found the mother oddly insouciant, and she refused to be taught how to tend the tube. A Bleak Life, Cut Short at 4, Harrowing From the Start 2011-05-09T05:14:31Z He tried to comfort himself with the assurance that this insouciant method of journeying was economical as well as being of advantage to him. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z I had driven and ridden past the Club before, and knew something of the insouciant curiosity of its members, and their happy habit of filling the verandah of sound of a horse or wheels. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z I fell short, however, of my goal of becoming one of those insouciant new involved dads, those creative types in skinny jeans who were continually doing awesome craft projects with their kids. Change We Can (Almost) Believe In 2011-04-10T06:00:00Z Sit slack-jawed as he insouciantly hangs the cup off one arm and stares enigmatically into the middle distance! The Fiver 2011-04-06T15:32:21Z In one insouciant swipe, racism symbolically undone with wit, skill and panache, the banana no longer carried any terrible political potency. The Fiver 2011-03-28T15:34:36Z India will be hard to beat, although their insouciant attitude at times can spill over into arrogance that the batting will carry the day come what may. Sri Lanka may well be a match too far for a merely adequate England 2011-03-21T13:30:13Z What an insouciant sprite, a slippered marvel outside the combative gymnast Gareth. Dragon dreams of Barry John, Gareth Edwards and springtime in Paris 2011-03-16T00:06:00Z "I know it's there, but it doesn't affect the business," he said insouciantly. An easy ride for football's men in suits 2011-03-08T21:00:59Z Meanwhile, whatever thoughts might be flitting about under his bright curls, nothing, save the most winning good-humour, the most insouciant hilarity, ever peeped for an instant out of his frank, shining eyes. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z With Captain Rodney and Sir Nicholas she makes way at once, though she is a little nervous and depressed, and not altogether like her usual gay insouciant self. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z There he sat by my side, his cigar a small red disc of fire, and he self-possessed, insouciant, d�monic, almost gay. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z As she looks at Lilian, fair and soft and pretty, the rather insouciant expression that has grown upon her own during her encounter with Florence fades, and once more she becomes her own gay self. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z Keith Richards, whose autobiography made him seem more insouciant than ever, was also rejected. Joel Stein Presents: The Coolest Person of the Year" 2010-12-19T06:47:40Z Gower said to his colleague, with a suggestion of a wink, and an insouciant chuckle. Martin Kelner: Botham and Gower put boot into campers 2010-09-26T23:06:00Z Up to this she has led a bird's life, gay, insouciant, free and careless. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z Not that he cares anyway because he's dead insouciant. The Fiver 2010-08-18T14:19:00Z He stood under bright lights, resting his elbow insouciantly on the front fender of his garishly painted race car, co-sponsored by AMP Energy Drink and the National Guard. Can Dale Earnhardt Jr. Outrace His Father?s Influence? 2010-08-05T16:05:00Z Ripley, so often the insouciant Englishman, recently admitted that not making that Test team had left him "devastated", while Davies has said that Ripley was his most difficult opponent. Andy Ripley obituary 2010-06-18T16:21:00Z Ms. O’Neill told of a teenage girl who was confused by the insouciant treatment that Mr. Letterman’s behavior generally received in the press and on television. NYC: Letterman, Clinton and Others: Sex, Power and Inequality 2010-03-12T02:10:00Z “Aren’t the holidays like a good way to celebrate gluttony?” asked Erich Fuchs, a consultant to nonprofit organizations, sipping a coffee, black, insouciantly. 2010-01-13T16:17:00Z It was the same Littell; perfectly dressed, graceful, insouciant, the well remembered, attractive personality. A Master Hand The Story of a Crime There were lines in his forehead that did not exist before, and a look of staid, settled melancholy, very different from the calm, insouciant air that used to pervade his countenance. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One At any rate, his handsome face, charming manners, tall graceful figure, and insouciant cavalry swagger, possessed a fascination for them which they seemed incapable of resisting. Long Live the King And with this philosophical reflection, the insouciant aide-de-camp threw himself upon his bed, to sleep as soundly as if the next day's sun had to shine upon a feast instead of a fray. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 "Indeed they are an insouciant crowd," mused his dragoman. Another Sheaf She played with abandon, a kind of reckless fury, sitting erect, with 132 her head flung back, an insouciant smile flickering about her lips, her lithe body swaying with the music. The Heart of Thunder Mountain The blood of his actress mother carried him insouciantly over the pregnant silence that received him. Rim o' the World This was the last wholesale assassination of modern times that a great city has seen, and prosperous, pleasure-loving, insouciant Damascus seems to have quite forgotten it. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit Never before had he been so insouciant, although never before had the risk been so great. Phoebe, Junior It was there that on Sunday I had seen the populace disport itself, and it was full of life then, gay and insouciant. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia In the mid-day sun all things took pleasure in their life; and all Nature appeared full of joy, coloured and various and insouciant. The Hero I rattled on, insouciant and careless to all appearances, but in reality my heart like lead. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 He was the same insouciant person who had impressed me so favourably upon my first introduction to him. The Motor Pirate Addicks leaned back on the cushions of his chair in the easiest, most insouciant way imaginable. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated She walked behind the two men, comparing them keenly: the deadly parallel column was not at all unfavorable to the insouciant Kentuckian. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play The theatres had disgorged their crowds, and Piccadilly was thronged, gay, vivacious, and insouciant. The Hero If he were to pretend to be as insouciant and aloof as so many men, this rather craven fleeing from self would be an even more egregious departure from masculine virtues. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais He who had insouciantly reassured Mother had himself to choke down the timorous speculations of a shop-bound clerk. The Innocents A Story for Lovers This young man had a heavy expression of conscious responsibility, before which the insouciant Pake visibly quailed. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Savages though called, who would not envy them such a charming insouciant existence? Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco They are just having dinner, and they are gay and insouciant about it, as they are about everything except frivolity. Nights in London Or, if he is an insouciant sort of person, he would more properly be titled, Prince Don't-Kar-a-toff. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 15, 1893 To be envied, indeed, such an insouciant, happy existence! The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse But not even the scent of insouciant flowers Makes pause the hours. Bay A Book of Poems The stimulus of his insouciant gaiety and originality, good looks and unfailingly good spirits had come to be a necessary part of her existence. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa There he gave a whispered order to an officer who lounged to the door, and placed his back against it, and there picked his teeth, insouciant. An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) Adversity came to the insouciant grey battery, adversity quickening to disaster. The Long Roll In that hat, thanks doubtless to its airy insouciant grace, he had won Philippa; in that hat he would have bearded her, defied her, and cast her off! Much Darker Days The revelation is not indeed of the direct sort that springs from frank and insouciant spontaneity. Modern American Prose Selections On tiny wooden tables and stands before the insouciant workers at trades, and the indifferent sellers of goods, were set vases of pale yellow jonquils. The Way of Ambition The latter object ruined the effect of his insouciant rendition of "Home, Sweet Home." Then I'll Come Back to You Overhead was the hot blue sky, blazing upon a motley crowd, which included the smiling faces of the idle, insouciant, gaily-clad Burmans—most genial and most engaging of nations. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma She has something English in her insouciant pose, and is wholly American in her cerebral quality. Visionaries His shirt-sleeves were rolled to the elbow and the light of his desk bulb shone on his ruffled hair as the "copy-kid" called out to him with that insouciant freshness which stamps his kind. Destiny In spite of himself he felt a sneaking admiration for this insouciant youth who could take a beating like a sportsman. Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story For the second time that day Kay saw Don Mike's face light up with that insouciant boyish smile. The Pride of Palomar But within herself she knew that a great gulf lay fixed between those insouciant, long-ago days and this golden, scented morning. The Moon out of Reach Arlee saw a girl some years older than herself, a small, plump, rounded creature, with a flaunting and insouciant prettiness. The Palace of Darkened Windows Here, under this Southern sun, we of the North are in danger of acquiring a sort of insouciant directness almost primitive. The Firing Line They were thinking of their Slingsbys; he affecting, insouciantly, to treat them as rational people. The Inheritors It came and went like a flicker of lightning; the somber man was an insouciant lad again. The Pride of Palomar The man's insight was extraordinarily keen, but touched with a little insouciant tenderness that preserved it from being critical in any hostile sense. The Moon out of Reach And then he took the high note—took it easily, insouciantly—held it, trilled it, tossed it. Half Portions He was scarcely twenty years of age, but a tightly packed chronicle of vicissitudes lay behind his sprightly insouciant appearance. When William Came Was it possible that he was as insouciant as he professed to be? Nightfall Doctor Abbot thought he had never seen the insouciant Bill so roused out of himself. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest The brilliant, casual, insouciant, worldly Phoebe had gone out on a dream-hunt and a delicious curled-up flower lay in her place, with turned lashes dipping against soft tinted cheeks. Andrew the Glad Coughing inordinately, not able to master smoking a cigarette with that insouciant fortitude and confidence seen in movies, he went into a Ben Franklin dime store. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America As I grew up, this teasing, jolly, insouciant Irish father of mine was relieved of some of his paternal duties by Tom Taylor. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections The novelty of the sights around him was almost too much for his insouciant dignity as a commissioned officer. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand The King, ever insouciant, had never thought to ask Monmouth the maid's name, and when she was presented as "Mistress Wick," and he beheld her form and attire, he was amazed. Mistress Penwick Their lack of preference as to where they earned there bread, their insouciant flights from town to town without notice, had made Sam brutal. The Wrong Twin It is a mixture of all four, and yet laughing, and—and—tender, and insouciant, and gay. The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Charles and his friends waited in vain at the inn, the "dark gentleman" as insouciant as ever, the rest of the party greatly perturbed. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter This insouciant, light-tempered, gay, and thoughtless disposition, conducted Ren�, free from all the passions which embitter life, and often shorten it, to a hale and mirthful old age. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 373, Supplementary Number The ladies of Watteau, gay and insouciant, seemed to wander with their cavaliers among the great trees, whispering to one another careless, charming things, and yet somehow oppressed by a nameless fear. Of Human Bondage He had half a mind to go straight after the insouciant visitor now, unpleasant as it would be to have to speak to him, and give him the fair warning he was entitled to. Captivating Mary Carstairs Not so her passengers: now the smoking room was deserted even by the insouciant Crane, and the seasick to a woman brought their troubles back to the boat-deck. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Gritzko did not even glance their way! he stood laughing with his comrades, and it would have been impossible to imagine anything more insouciant and attractive and provoking than the creature looked. His Hour He seems engaged in a pleasant revery, and his countenance wears an air of the most placid and insouciant content. Life in Mexico In the winter of 1869, he went to Africa for big game, and, returning in the early weeks of March, found France and his dear Paris gayer, more insouciant, more brilliant than ever. The Isle of Unrest This insouciant, light-tempered, gay and thoughtless disposition conducted René, free from all the passions which embitter life, to a hale and mirthful old age. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc Riding beside Lieutenant Tom Herbert, I conversed with that worthy, and found the tedious march beguiled by his gay and insouciant talk. Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee In a moment he had laughed, and resumed his habitually insouciant mien. His Hour Edestone's reply was as insouciant as if he had been merely commenting on the weather. L.P.M. : the end of the Great War To this enchanting spot came Humayun and his ladies full of life, to be insouciant and gay. Roving East and Roving West If Louis XIV. was a Nebuchadnezzar, unapproachable from pride, Louis XV. was a Sardanapalus in effeminacy and insouciant revelries. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers Yet from her came these sufficient, insouciant replies. Miss Lulu Bett There was almost an air of bravado in the insouciant tone of his next remark— "Do you know, I did a dreadful thing," he said. His Hour Mark Twain's fun was light-hearted and insouciant, his pathos genuine and profound. Mark Twain The hilarious acknowledgment which immediately came back to her was a relief in more ways than one, although she was half provoked at the insouciant, devil-may-care-now spirit which it evinced. Bessie Bradford's Prize And he knew that he had read the most exquisite, the most insouciant, and the most universal account of every man's heart's desire—Margaret as she would be when she grew tall. Aladdin O'Brien Take Billy May, fair-haired, mild, insouciant, almost languid, till you see him at work. Shearing in the Riverina And as each guest came in view, past the splendid footmen grouped like statues on every six steps, both women watched with quickening pulses for one insouciant Cossack face. His Hour The mad, bizarre scene of the night before, with sudden unleashing of savage and ungoverned passions, had shaken even her insouciant poise, though she was very far from seeing it in its true proportions. The Lamp of Fate She tried to make her tone insouciant, but she was conscious of her cheeks getting hot. Missy He strolls through Europe with an insouciant air and finds it almost as good as California. The Native Son He wondered vaguely whether Falbe's explanation of this—namely, that nationally the English were prosperous, comfortable and insouciant—was perhaps sound. Michael I thought of the round, insouciant faces of the monks at whose monastery I once broke bread, and how their eyes sparkled when they asked me of the France that lay around their walls. The Works of Max Beerbohm Out of the tail of her eye she saw him bowing like an Italian opera singer, as impudently insouciant, as gracefully graceless as any stage villain in her memory. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West She visioned the amazement, the admiration, the respect, which would shine in his eyes as, insouciantly and yet with dash, she deftly manoeuvred Gypsy's reins and cantered right into the store! Missy For instance, galloping up on a spirited mount, in a modish riding-habit—a checked one with flaring-skirted coat and shining boots and daring but swagger breeches, perhaps!—galloping insouciantly up to take that dare! Missy Like many very shy persons, he had one friend with whom he was completely unreserved, and that was this cousin of his, for whose charm and insouciant brilliance he had so adoring an admiration. Michael "Where in the world did—" "Dare me to ride in the store?" demanded Missy, flicking the air with her crop and speaking insouciantly. Missy |
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