How To Use Insouciance In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Alongside this insouciance goes a Balkanised decision-making process, with numerous overlapping authorities responsible for different watersheds, sanitation plants and irrigation.
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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.
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I wish I could agree with this call for mature insouciance, one year on.
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His evidence is flimsy; his insouciance is disturbing.
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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.
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The same insouciance was evident in the other revelation anent local government last week.
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As she leans with sinuous insouciance against Billy's flank, her unfeigned ease fills the image with sexual heat.
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Its unhappy record of arrogant insouciance and incompetence as a monopoly service provider has given its new rivals a record of leaky credibility against which to run.
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Both countries have aristocracies, but one is landed and ancient and has had many long centuries to perfect its insouciance.
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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.
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From the opening brass fanfares to the insouciance of the finale, the piece evokes images of mounted guardsmen, band shells in Bath, kids with pennywhistles, and even the elegiac promptings of night.
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Fletcher's performance highlighted a problem that must perturb Redknapp despite his insouciance – Emmanuel Adebayor seems to be going off the boil.
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Releasing a fierce battle cry, I pounded flailing fist after flailing fist onto him, oblivious to his insouciance and lack of flinching.
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What you're aiming for is a casual insouciance; something that explains the situation without offering an opinion either way.
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In these, and all matters, Laursen's expressionless tone and apparent insouciance can be misleading.
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Mostly, though, Sanders' cheerful insouciance could not be less calculating.
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`Insouciance" was the name of the place, tucked down a flight of stairs of a brownstone apartment building.
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I find his insouciance about the difficulty of figuring out ethics disconcerting, though he's right that Nietzsche collapses into Platonism.
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Investors are interpreting the insouciance -- with Sarkozy saying that losing the AAA rating isn't "insurmountable" -- to mean that France has accepted the inevitable.
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The diplomat's remarks reveal the acute awareness of image that Germans took on after World War II - a hypersensitivity to world opinion that is as unlike brash American insouciance as, well, defeat is to victory.
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He was known for his insouciance, hopping out of limousines in tailored, three-piece suits to attend hearings and his trial.
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The best anecdotes always involved the camera persons, their miserliness, their profligacy with the company's money ( "To hire of camel"), their thick-skinned insouciance on matters of taste or tact.
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After a cadenza closing on a dominant triad, the music's insouciance is tempered by a grave adagio in four parts, riddled with dissonant suspensions painfully resolved in a decorated cadence in the tonic major.
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Those who had worked with him said that his insouciance belied great bravery in the face of danger.
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Underneath the careful insouciance lay a thick seam of resolution.
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December 21st, 2009 12: 35 pm ET insouciance (had to look that one up), stands to reason they would use that term, the conservatives are fear mongers, that is what they do best ..... try to scare people into voting for them .... republicans hate america
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I love how Mary leans against a doorway holding baby Jesus to the adoration of a couple of dirty-footed pilgrims, with all the slightly bored insouciance of any matron chatting with the neighbors.
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And so when up against quality opposition and they go a goal down, a certain insouciance manifests itself.
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There are, admittedly, some who would contend that he can overdo the cavalier insouciance, but, assuredly, the confidence he oozes is certainly very welcome.
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Coupled with a 6-0 thrashing at Chelsea a week later it was a start that left a 37-year-old manager in his second Premier League season looking exposed, if not out of his depth, yet with a conjuror's insouciance Martínez pulled an unlikely win at Spurs out of the hat next to quieten a restless audience.
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Underneath the careful insouciance lay a thick seam of resolution.
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It is also a remarkably accurate portrait of a family who, in two postwar generations, leap from the daily struggle to keep body and soul together to public school insouciance and confidence.
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Even at the best of times, Nicholls is hardly a model of laid-back insouciance.
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With his eclectic (for a don of that era) taste came a certain insouciance.
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There was also a degree of insouciance about recycling the compost.
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Assayas seems obsessed by the workaday world of Hong Kong with its mass insouciance as a crossroads of international, interlingual and interracial commerce and industry, which leaves it little time to pause and notice a desperate European woman running for her life," writes
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This would seem to explain their insouciance about appearing as actors in a drama series that will, if all goes to plan, transform them into successful musicians.
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This is not a question of a rush to judgment, tempting though it may be to condemn him in the face of his insouciance over the years.
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Her sultry good looks, airy insouciance and withering scorn would have made me her instant slave.
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After a wobbly start, balance and confidence come back, though not sufficiently to allow one hand to reach down for the water bottle at speed, never mind that old teenage insouciance of riding with both hands in the trouser pockets.
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In the rainy months, a symphony of leaks puddled her floor, though she never cared, plashing through, with a duck's insouciance.
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It was neat and elegant, like all wild animals, with an air of aristocratic insouciance and good breeding.
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He incessantly joshes his son, once slugs him in the face with a vase, cracks terrible jokes, struts around in a tweed jacket, and generally makes a virtue out of insouciance and brio.
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Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches.
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He has that enviably precise balance of familiarity and distance, humor and restraint, insouciance laced with respect.
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As what W. H. Auden called the ‘dishonest decade’ grew grimmer, the New Yorker's editorial policy shifted from insouciance to concern.
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Her sultry good looks, airy insouciance and withering scorn would have made me her instant slave.
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We began by trying not to be London style snobs, to keep our metropolitan insouciance zipped, but the sheer volume, the boundless gaudy vulgarity of it, overwhelms you, and you just have to howl with derision.
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In the rainy months, a symphony of leaks puddled her floor, though she never cared, plashing through, with a duck's insouciance.
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It was neat and elegant, like all wild animals, with an air of aristocratic insouciance and good breeding.
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Wahlberg gives the same performance as in his last five movies and lacks the breezy insouciance the picture needs.
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We enjoy his insouciance and defiance; he has all the best characteristics in a movie where few have any redeeming value.
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The insouciance, indifference and prejudice that the leader refers to is a compound subject governed by a sense of unity.
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Somehow while a good percentage of free jazzers in other countries appear to specialize in grim faces and toplofty attitudes, the Dutch - like the Italians - are able to add insouciance to their improvisations.
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His evidence is flimsy; his insouciance is disturbing.
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