insouciance

How To Use insouciance In A Sentence

• Their addiction to the intoxicating thrill of climbing, coupled with the magnificent insouciance of youth, led them to take on a challenge which had defeated everyone else.
• Perhaps this partly explains the stoicism and insouciance of those Brits interviewed on the streets, all of whom seemed to know that a certain sang-froid was expected of them.
• The sheer insouciance from the IRS towards all tax-deviant clerics following Pulpit Freedom Sundays in 2008 and 2009 leaves little precedent for a change in policy this year. Stuart Whatley: Pulpit Politicking Returns for 2010 Election Cycle
• Alongside this insouciance goes a Balkanised decision-making process, with numerous overlapping authorities responsible for different watersheds, sanitation plants and irrigation.
• Not just lovely Alice, or ardent Joe, who adores her, or Charles, who speaks of his chubbiness with studied insouciance: "I haven't leaned out yet. 'Super 8': Old Format, Fresh Thrills
• I wish I could agree with this call for mature insouciance, one year on.
• His evidence is flimsy; his insouciance is disturbing. Times, Sunday Times
• His insouciance spreads a calm that would have you believe that there is nothing that makes his first post different from any other managerial position.
• The same insouciance was evident in the other revelation anent local government last week.
• As she leans with sinuous insouciance against Billy's flank, her unfeigned ease fills the image with sexual heat.