How To Use Casualness In A Sentence

  • Hotchkiss the theoretician knew his knots, and made play with the fact, tying them, particularly Tesla's, with a theatrical casualness. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
  • Whether that muddle comes from Mr. Emmerich, I don’t know, but the casting of David Thewlis, languid romantic werewolf, as old, fat, gouty Burghley suggests a certain casualness about mere historicity. History
  • We spent seven hours together—beginning with a tense el ride and a tenser, chitchatty lunch at the Berghoff meant to create casualness where there was none. Life As We Know It
  • During our interview, Tory rode the middle on most issues, qualifying his policy statements with casualness and indifference when questioned point-blank.
  • She introduced herself with studied casualness.
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  • ‘There's a casualness and trust about the lifestyle that you can't get in the city,’ Mr Neilson says.
  • Casualness translates into a more secular sort of leadership, which is why people who don't like him here talk about the Americanization of France.
  • The formal references made by this stood in stark contrast to Rhode's relative casualness and the informality of his performance.
  • A certain casualness, almost freedom, in the way the prisoners (except, of course, the ones in the segregation sector) walk around in the hallways, talking, pausing if they want, and in the way they are dressed. In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three)
  • Chileans are generally not attracted to the casualness and, what some consider to be sloppiness, of dress in the United States.
  • When he paints with casein on wood, Doyle's style varies from precise representation to almost slapdash casualness.
  • But even this court was shocked, not only by the seeming pervasive scope of misconduct but even more distressingly by the seeming casualness by which such conduct is employed. Christine A. Scheller: 'Felon' Is The New N-Word
  • For all the outward signs of casualness, these works are not quite as offhand as they might seem to be at first.
  • His casualness irritated Adriana; it had the savor of a deliberate affront.
  • He was sure that the casualness of the gesture was deliberate.
  • Her casualness was a way to diminish her concerns about my reaction or, perhaps, to encourage a nonchalant response from me. The Christmas Cookie Club
  • The work has the casualness of a sketch on a workshop wall and the artist has the aesthetic appreciation to understand when such things can be beautiful.
  • But when he moved up to the top level, international level, these moments of casualness were punished.
  • My students are always interested in lessons which deal with what linguists call pragmatics †all those things about using a foreign language which go beyond grammar and vocabulary, and have more to do with nuance of meaning, casualness vs. formality, manners, inference, etc. Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Teaching Tricks to Sea Lions
  • His casualness irritated Adriana; it had the savor of a deliberate affront.
  • Our linguistic and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us friend in the world.
  • Its very casualness, its unfinishedness and downbeat messiness give the affair the feeling of real life, which by a further paradox makes it more engaging than something more obviously dramatic.
  • Carson's topical jokes showed a barometric sensitivity to shifts in the national mood -- when his monologues made Richard Nixon their butt, that was the ball game -- but equally important was the host's carefully crafted casualness and the show's changelessness: The New York Times's Frank Rich called it "as formulaic and reassuring as Kabuki. JOHNNY CARSON, 1925-2005
  • My utter casualness about the situation has been surprising.
  • Just as easily, enjoy the laid back casualness of the Breeze Bar with its BBQ by the swimming pool, or the quiet romance of a sunset cocktail in the Aroma Lobby Lounge.
  • In the American segregated South nannies (called "mammies" or, more commonly, "maids") were passed among the members of an extended family with a casualness surely born of slaveholding traditions. How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement
  • It's easy to be perceived as unprofessional based on the casualness of one's attire.
  • The casualness of these statements belied what I considered to be an exacting exchange system.

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