How To Use Blithely In A Sentence
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His first thought was that of every young man, who blithely thinks to pit the bravado he miscalls courage against every obstacle.
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Generally, he remained blithely unconcerned about his screen roles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why does a conductor so fastidious and precise with an orchestra always seem so blithely undisturbed by such unidiomatic, out-of-tune singing?
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A president affronting the leadership of the church, and blithely threatening its great institutions?
A Battle the President Can't Win
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However, equally I don't think one can credibly take a blithely post-modern approach and mutter vaguely about ‘multiple truths’, if basic historical factual assertions have been misstated.
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The cook is as blithely eccentric as a good neighbor.
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I'm coming," she called blithely to the scarlet flowers.
Mrs. Red Pepper
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“Mony a dainty ane,” said Madge; “and blithely can I sing them, for lightsome sangs make merry gate.”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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There is hardly a trace of social realism in this concerto, which seems blithely unconcerned about the world around it.
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And media, in light of a recent AARP poll saying practically everyone is 'fer it, why don't you attempt a nosecount this time before blithely passing on such a pronouncement?
FreedomWorks, Tea Party Patriots head for the Hill
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Moisture and temperature cannot be explicitly divided out from convolved data, therefore, You seem to suppose that because there is no evidence bearing on the question at all, one can therefore blithely go an and assume there is no conflation of responses so as to produce some proxy series.
Treydte, Moberg, Soon and Baliunas « Climate Audit
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Recorded "at various concert halls around the globe between 2007-10" as his latest label blithely puts it, he's as inventive and unfailingly swinging here on his 62nd trio album as when he left Miami long ago.
Evening Standard - Home
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Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course.
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She bade them adieu blithely; but the thoughts engendered by the invitation stood before her as sorrowful and rayless ghosts which could not be laid.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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He fails to grasp the structural teleology of a composition, blithely ignoring any real legato.
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His family is blithely unaware of his nature.
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Both are blithely unconcerned with ethnicity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet he seemed blithely unaware of this.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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Annadoah called blithely and coquettishly after him.
The Eternal Maiden
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The family's younger son blithely tools around rural Shropshire in his natty two-seater.
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His acrimonious split from his wife has contributed to his blithely acknowledged misogyny, hence there are no women working in his restaurant.
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He highlights the absurdities of his new hobby without blithely mocking.
Times, Sunday Times
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I do, however, recognise my own utterly antidoxic nature as so unquestionably Libran that I have to be skeptical about that rationalist dogma, and try and explain this evidence rather than blithely ignore it.
Critique From HereNow
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The tea menu is a tiny piece of delight, with descriptions that blithely use words like "velutinous" and "viridescent" and "vegetal" to describe their oolongs and whites and blacks.
Archive 2008-10-01
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I bet this wazzock, who blithely writes "the more the merrier", is also a fervent devotee of AGW and sees nothing ironic in the inconsistency of his very odd and loathesome views.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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They walk off the road in various directions and continue blithely on their way.
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We can feel generous and virtuous while blithely ignoring 99 per cent of the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Times columnist was blithely condescending to the songwriting team's canon.
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It wasn’t until much later that I thought to wonder which was me, the beast, who had once drank blithely from the toilet and licked crumbs from the floor, or the tin box at my neck.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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He's someone who learned the hard way about how naivety is exploited on that scene, with underage actors blithely cast in barebacking scenes by studio guys who pay little attention to age certification legislation.
Archive 2010-06-01
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These white wines, from here and abroad, sail blithely across your taste buds, wake them up, and then gracefully depart.
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Indeed, the fiction of an Australia blithely indifferent to America is the single-most unrealistic aspect of the film.
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This blithely idiosyncratic, almost dialogue-free animated film concerns an old lady's quest to recover her grandson after he is mysteriously kidnapped during the Tour de France.
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Oh to be so powerful that you can transform world football 's calendar so blithely.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is much to admire in Shakespeare's ability to combine plots and subplots of such diversity and create a dénouement in which any number of knots are blithely unraveled.
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It was his pleasure -- and seemingly the pleasure and privilege of all lineman's gangs the world over -- to whistle blithely and to call impudently to any passing petticoat that caught his fancy.
Half Portions
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Generally, he remained blithely unconcerned about his screen roles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Confidently perching or restoratively leaning on it, emphatically plunking it down or cannily relocating it, blithely ignoring it or stymiedly crumpling up over it, Stritch makes the high chair embody moods, objectify states of being.
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If he guards his food bowl, blithely walk by his bowl and drop in some terrific treats.
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Then, blithely ignoring Barksdale's demurral, he ordered: ‘Report on Monday.’
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She would kill Lori for being so blithely insubordinate but she couldn't say anything in front of Nick.
JUST BETWEEN US
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It is also a powerful cautionary tale for all those who blithely repose their faith in State-led legal reform, codification, standardisation and uniformity.
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But anyone with a friend or relative in the US, and an inclination to do so, will blithely continue to brazen it out with the traffic law enforcers.
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Mind you, I was required to blithely swim about in the company of sawfish, sea turtles, and a couple of seven-foot tiger sharks while disguised from the pupek down as a lovely piece of Nova lox.
With Love and Laughter, John Ritter
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Scott and Aaron, meanwhile, were padding along, toasty as English muffins, as blithely as if they were at home in their bedroom slippers.
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He puts blinders on and sees nothing but the flaws, while blithely overlooking the soul of the message, and the innocence of the delivery.
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Developers mid-way through construction who blithely ignored the warning signs about leaky homes and waterproofing have unsaleable, even uncertifiable properties.
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The playing was faultless, the singing blithely exquisite, the applause ecstatic.
Times, Sunday Times
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That was right after the BCS blithely ignored two of its own unwritten rules - a team must win its conference championship; the title game shouldn't be a rematch of a regular-season game - so Alabama and LSU could meet again in Super Dome.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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But it's treated rather blithely in a stenographic US media, with little attention to its substance or peril.
William Bradley: Drifting to War with Iran: Beware the Hysteria
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Like just about everyone else in the film, she is hedonistic and blithely self-involved.
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He intermixes shots of neon-lit signs with glossy images of models blithely spraying themselves with perfume.
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How did Americans ever allow one man so blithely and callously and "childishly" wreck this nation?
Bill Katovsky: 13 Ways of Looking at the Inauguration
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For those, like Ryan, who atttempt to deligitimize the “pro-torture” (and to even say that is silly, no one relishes torture) in simplistic and casual ways is blithely ignorant … moral clarity aside, ones personal decisions take on much more significance when those decisions effect millions of others in, possibly, profound ways.
Think Progress » Shame on Yoo
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He blithely sailed off into a maelstrom and delivered a steady performance as France's sailing stars faltered around him.
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They leave Henry's story blithely messy, the product of a man who is only barely self-aware.
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I was not aware of any restrictions and so unaware, had a good time unruffled and blithely went on working.
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When snake sheds its skin, it slides out of it, leaves it behind and moves on blithely with life.
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The evening's companion to Can You Hear Me and Detective Sketches, Lorenzo's basically a gay version of The Blue Angel, with David Zak as an advertising "creative" who becomes obsessed with the title tramp, a blithely opportunistic teenage hustler played by Paul Raedyn.
Chicago Reader
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'Don't worry. I'll pay,' she said blithely.
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We stepped blithely into the twilight, and during the long descent I discoursed with him, in fluent Byzantine Greek, of the affairs of his village.
Old Calabria
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Our boat's radar showed shoals of fish swimming blithely beneath our craft.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both are blithely unconcerned with ethnicity.
Times, Sunday Times
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So far I have been assuming an understanding of ghosts and ghostliness, blithely employing these terms as if they were commonly understood, let alone accepted.
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It's easy to blithely say "Why don't they just make the bondholders take a haircut?"
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The air was fresh and keen, squirrels jumped about in the trees, and the storm-cock sang blithely.
Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
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People go to jail these days, and when they come out they blithely resume their place in society.
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He was replaced by a boozy singer-guitarist who announced in heavily accented French that he was a purveyor of Irish love ballads, then blithely launched into Leonard Cohen's Sisters of Mercy.
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blithely unconcerned about his friend's plight
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Borrowers, reveling in their lower monthly payments, blithely absorb the overcharges.
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Critics blithely ignorant of its subject matter routinely dismiss western art as purely anecdotal.
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Our boat's radar showed shoals of fish swimming blithely beneath our craft.
Times, Sunday Times
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We may operate with economic infantilism, borrowing blithely, ignoring pension schemes and blowing half our annual earnings on rent.
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Sarkozy blithely ignored the limit and spoke for twenty, bringing the hall to its feet when he declared, "To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!
Waiting for Sarko
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To be blithely ignorant of the difference between a founder and framer is sad, but to try and use your ignorance as some sort of argument winner is doubly pathetic.
Matthew Yglesias » George Will’s Odd Aversion to Democracy
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I was in Mexico a few weeks ago, blithely unconscious of the Zapatistas.
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But use, life, good works have departed with those whom it exhorted to church duty, and in sympathy with all the human endeavor it once knew, but now fordone, in these days it never rings blithely, it can only be made to toll.
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He rather blithely admits that recklessness in a source is a good thing, that nuance is the enemy of good television, that newsmen love news no matter who it hurts.
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Extant anthropoids appear to be blithely insouciant to such syndromes.
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Still, I'm not ready to move on to what's blithely called "child-free" living.
My Fertility Crisis
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We can feel generous and virtuous while blithely ignoring 99 per cent of the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forward!" he called blithely and boldly to the officer; while Crates, with loud lamentations, was protesting his innocence to the warrior who was putting fetters upon him.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
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Developers mid-way through construction who blithely ignored the warning signs about leaky homes and waterproofing have unsaleable, even uncertifiable properties.
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He blithely absolves this libel as an example of "antonomasia".
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The subject of her thoughts, blithely unaware of the future hurtling towards her, was doing a round with Sir Harry Bliss, his registrar -- one Donald Jones, a clutch of worried housemen, and the social worker, a beaky-nosed lady with a heart of gold, known throughout the hospital as Ducky.
You Don't Take Names
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Instead, when the train drew up at the next station, she hopped blithely on to the platform and was greatly surprised to find a young friend of hers, the Reverend Noel Wells, seated upon the nearest bench, his long black-trousered legs uncanonically sprawling, his soft black hat tilted over his eyes, his mouth wide open and an expression of imbecile contentment on his vacuous, sleeping face.
Death at the Opera
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The tea menu is a tiny piece of delight, with descriptions that blithely use words like "velutinous" and "viridescent" and "vegetal" to describe their oolongs and whites and blacks.
Archive 2008-10-01
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If you're True Blood, you blithely exposit that time moves differently in Fairyland and move all the show's action ahead a year, lickety split.
Top Moments: True Blood's Lost Year and Stewart Goes On the Offensive
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P.S. - I set up that foot-tall figure of Pope John Paul II, and it's a tad disconcerting at first to be engaged in deviant sexual practices while he stares blithely on, but then you figure it's cool that he's watching and still just blessing it, and that's pretty cool.
July 13th, 2006
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Edited for Addition: Again blithely selling jewelry to a couple of ladies.
Dragon*Con Part 2
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They were padding along, toasty as English muffins, as blithely as if they were at home in their bedroom slippers.
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He seems blithely unaware of how much anger he's caused.
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He recounts all of this blithely, but the work was both dangerous and enterprising.
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“You call the rains,” I state blithely; any child knows that.
Fire The Sky
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Yet he seemed blithely unaware of this.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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Other men, exulting secretly, piled their goods on two-wheeled go-carts and pulled out blithely enough, only to stall at the first spot where the great round boulders invaded the trail.
CHAPTER I
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She is not a woman to worry excessively about committing bigamy and now she is blithely preparing to move ahead into trigamy.
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Doubtless she knew it too, as she sat there sewing on the frail garment which lay across her knee and singing blithely under her breath some air with cadence like a berceuse.
Athalie
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The company gathered as blithely as if they were going maying, and certainly so bright a morning invited to so pleasant a pastime.
His Disposition
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We repair to the kitchen and blithely set off the burglar alarm searching for the cat to cuddle.
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He was slumped in his armchair, blithely chopping between sports channels, watching anything from ping pong to women's gymnastics.
LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
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One interesting thing you'll notice is that the English-language maledictions used quite blithely in the French-language media are all obscenities, and the French words are all profanities.
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For this has been the year of my initiation into what I'm discovering only now is an elite club, a secret society, an unofficial confederacy the existence of which I was up till now blithely unaware.
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He blithely absolves this libel as an example of "antonomasia" ( "the use of a proper name to express a general idea," OED), saying rather too airily that in this instance he meant a "Pat Boone-type" to imply any crooner of the well-scrubbed variety.
Happy Days Are Here Again
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He refrained; and this time virtue really had a reward beyond itself, for Willie would blithely have told him that she was a dressmaker (he called Nettie, however, the manager of a Court modiste's business), and that would not have pleased Charlie.
Comedies of Courtship
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Throughout his reign, he blithely ruled as he thought right and did little to explain himself.
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Why does a conductor so fastidious and precise with an orchestra always seem so blithely undisturbed by such unidiomatic, out-of-tune singing?
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But if we blithely assume that the second enclosure movement will have the same benign effects as the first, we may look like very silly geese indeed.
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The fact that he knocked against my car didn't faze him one bit and he continued blithely, with his conscience-stricken passengers looking out to see what had happened to my car.
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I blithely answered, ‘No, I plan to write two filmscripts and a novel.’
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Covent Garden, the child stepping blithely by my side, graceful even then, notwithstanding her immatureness, and quaintly attractive, though her deep blue eyes were full of tears, and the white terror had not passed wholly from her face.
The Master Mummer
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Most animals blithely ignore the dead bodies of other members of their pack or herd.
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That was right after the BCS blithely ignored two of its own unwritten rules - a team must win its conference championship; the title game shouldn't be a rematch of a regular-season game - so Alabama and LSU could meet again in Super Dome.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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He seems blithely unaware of how much anger he's caused.
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Suffice it to say, however, that I have heard similar logic blithely applied to every potential agent-annoyer from incorrect formatting to a first-person narrative from 17 different perspectives not counting the omniscient narrator who somehow managed to sneak in to comment from time to time to outright plagiarism.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Speaking of dialogue revision…
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To be sure, the Kagans still overblow the political progress made by the Maliki government and oversimplify the intraShi'ite power struggle -- and are blithely innocent about the role of the Iranians in calming things down in Basra and Sadr city, but they are right about one important thing: the military situation in Iraq has improved so much that normally sober and pessimistic military and intelligence sorts are simply stunned.
Progress in Iraq…and What To Do About It - Swampland - TIME.com
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What a hoot to hear pundits who defended federally-subsidized Wall Street bonus contracts as sacrosanct now blithely calling for the abolishment of collective bargaining contracts for teachers.
Craig Crawford: Greedy Teachers?
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He seems blithely unaware of how much anger he's caused.
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He's someone who learned the hard way about how naivety is exploited on that scene, with underage actors blithely cast in barebacking scenes by studio guys who pay little attention to age certification legislation.
Archive 2010-06-01
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Oh to be so powerful that you can transform world football 's calendar so blithely.
Times, Sunday Times
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The uneasy separation of motive from outcome, which he blithely assumes in theory, is inoperable in practice.
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Full-voiced, agile and impudently funny, she bounded around the stage, blithely tricking the Forester's vain and stupid chickens, appropriating the old Badger's den, learning about love from the Fox, chomping on a rabbit, and howling defiance at Harašta, who shot her.
The Beauty of the Beasts
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With his black turban and golden gun hanging down below his long gray beard, Mr. Mojadidi was pictured blithely using a remote to switch TV channels as a scantily clad woman with a blue burqa covering her face fawned over her man.
This 'Jihadi' Is Armed With a Subversive Sense of Humor
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Though the claith were bad, blithely may we niffer
Great Scots
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He was slumped in his armchair, blithely chopping between sports channels, watching anything from ping pong to women's gymnastics.
LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
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I have to go there next week for a meeting and blithely booked a non-refundable or changeable train ticket online from London Marylebone to Warwick…
