How To Use Insouciant In A Sentence
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My basic attitude has always been that one should soldier on, stoic and insouciant in the face of life 's tribulations.
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Ramona Simms - Gorgeously attired in head hankey and with an attractive unaffected insouciant wiggle, the girl from Ipanemah was oblivious to the admiring glance s she received from passers by …
Archive 2007-03-11
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Extant anthropoids appear to be blithely insouciant to such syndromes.
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(In Beinart's case, I use the term pro-Israel without the quotation marks that I use when I describe organizations like AIPAC, the American Jewish Committee and The Israel Project which are in the "pro-Israel" business and insouciantly support policies that are destructive to Israel) ..
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Empson's criticism bespeaks a man of some social rank, and in manner it is appropriately insouciant and grand.
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Initially insouciant, they become increasingly frantic and competitive as they disappear and reappear, adapting their outfits to the whims of fashion.
Christianity Today
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It's about wearing expensive clothes insouciantly, or cheap clothes with outrageous attitude, part stealth luxe, part understated showiness.
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One is that I know they probably FEEL great; they often have that kind of insouciant look about them that I think is partly due to not having a crotch seam and being able to get dressed in seconds.
I missed blogging against sexism! - A Dress A Day
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The natives are a leathery, insouciant people; well-heeled women in suggestive topcloths parade around the avenues like so many cockled peacocks, and the men are as manicured as the Egyptians, a tribe of smellsmocks and pinchfarthings jockeying for attention.
I search the horizon...
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Programme-makers seem irresponsibly insouciant about churning out violence.
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Asking if these two ideas belong together could only be answered with an insouciant shrug and'Why not?
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We have come to regard ever zippier consumer electronics as a basic right, and are notoriously insouciant about the improvements in basic physics that make them possible.
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A bare-shouldered woman lolls insouciantly on the cover of the magazine.
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Her vocal style has always been a Marmite matter – for everyone who thought it the height of insouciant cool, there was someone for whom it sounded like a 14-year-old smartarse answering the teacher back – but here it's frequently distorted and Daleked into oblivion.
MIA: Maya | CD Review
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Inspirational and imbued with an engaging, multidimensional personality on the park, he can be infuriatingly insouciant and ungiving off it.
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In this regard several essays published in 1987 clearly mark a turning point, not to mention the insouciant crashing of psychoanalytic theory on the Black Studies scene.
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In the twisted mirror in which may he view himself, he is viewed as insouciant, he apparently feels, at his lack of Anglo-Saxon heredity, inferiority, a sick and selfish shame of his own ancestorial, broken-english, family heritage.
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there are definition questions what does "insouciant" mean?
"I never see those things"
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An insouciant bagginess in the crotch of his flannel pants seemed so promising.
Petey Prickles Vs. Funeral Steve: An ALL-NEW Petey Prickles Caper!
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Is his air of insouciant confidence all a bluff?
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Empson's criticism bespeaks a man of some social rank, and in manner it is appropriately insouciant and grand.
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There's a wonderful cover shot to the 1958 album Legrand Jazz, with pianist-composer Michel Legrand wearing an expression of insouciant expectation, Gauloise at the corner of his mouth, indolently summoning invisible sidemen to action.
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The path arcs along the curve of the precipice, a 3,000-foot drop just inches away, but Douré is surefooted, singing quietly, insouciant.
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He is insouciant, cultured and full of Gallic flair, with a soupçon of je ne sais quoi.
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Getty Images Velvet slippers can add an insouciant flavor to jeans on Kanye West, suits and shorts.
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Or as he puts it, so airily, so insouciantly: ‘Don't fret, pet.’
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an utterly insouciant financial policy
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The musical content is that of a children's song; the strophic structure actually diminishes any sense of conflict; the insouciant ritornello — — resets each verse like rounds of a game.
Archive 2008-09-01
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What also sets him apart is his insouciant, jazzlike phrasing - no coherent lines, everything with a wink or a shimmy or a comical expression.
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Programme-makers seem irresponsibly insouciant about churning out violence.
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His tall, impressive frame was leaning back comfortably in the big chair behind his desk, the trademark curl of jet-black hair dangling across his brow in a calculatedly insouciant manner.
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Because, as an author, I believe that kind of insouciant self-confidence builds a more enduring bond.
Undefined
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What an insouciant sprite, a slippered marvel outside the combative gymnast Gareth.
Dragon dreams of Barry John, Gareth Edwards and springtime in Paris | Frank Keating
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I laughed so much with both surprise and delight that I gladly relinquished the bread to gabbling beaks and they went on their way to steam-roller another 'insouciant' picnicker.
Ame soeur - French Word-A-Day
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There's a wonderful cover shot to the 1958 album Legrand Jazz, with pianist-composer Michel Legrand wearing an expression of insouciant expectation, Gauloise at the corner of his mouth, indolently summoning invisible sidemen to action.
This week's new live music
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an elegantly insouciant manner
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Allegretto was an insouciant confection - played with vigor and bravado.
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She was slinky in a short black skirt with ridiculously high heels -- nosebleed heels -- and she moved across the stage in a kind of insouciant shimmy.
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But it was rough even at the dawn of the new century when the Strokes emerged from the Lower East Side read: Dwight School with their post-punk guitars and biscuit-tin drums to capture a city's insouciant attitude and inveigle the rest of the country with it.
Disco Donors, Punk Pioneers
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Things improved with their swift, insouciant diabolo act.
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Perhaps her insouciant attitude was part of her charm?
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But whatever the insouciant stage persona said, underneath Smith desperately wanted approval.
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They always seemed so blasé, so effortlessly cool; insouciant, suntanned, with great clothes.
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Its driver, insouciant about having one more dent to add to the several he had already accumulated, waved an airy palm of instant forgiveness.
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Their insouciant attitude is compellingly, annoyingly irresistible.
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She occasionally is insubordinate and is always insouciant.
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It's been a long time, but many of that album's most enduring qualities — its brassy brattiness and insouciant sneer among them — remain very much in Ms. Phair's arsenal.
A Musical Plan of Attack
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At the breakfast table she eats jam insouciantly with her fingers, and as the crisis emerges, she is uniquely able to placate Claire's child Leo, demonstrating an intuitive wisdom and coming into her own as "Auntie Steel-breaker", the name conferred upon her by said nephew.
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She virtually invented boho-chic: swirly tiered skirts, fringed shawls and improbable headdresses, worn with an insouciant slash of scarlet lipstick on her sensuous lips.
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That hybrid vigour and insouciant adaptability made it, delightfully, into a fairground mirror of the societies it entertained.
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His victory on Monday in the first round captured attention; his insouciant charm afterwards captured hearts.
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Painter Philip Oliver Hale depicts the composer in Ades' London home reclining-at once elegantly refined and unaffectedly insouciant-on an armchair with his feet resting upon an ottoman.
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What could easily be a menacing portrait of a stalker becomes something altogether more insouciant.
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But when she spoke, she had an insouciant and unpracticed glamour that belonged in a Hollywood film.
The 12:39 to Matanzas
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He seemed insouciant after qualifying, explaining that he had a good race pace and was confident of a podium place.
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His insouciant handling of the oil spill in the Gulf is under fire from all sides.
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The unbruised adolescent ego likes its angst to be clear-cut and attributable to the denigrations of an insouciant universe.
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As Victor stalks Rose, however, he's amused by her insouciant thievery in an open-air market and, even if he doesn't know it, beguiled by her beauty.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Wild Target
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He left the field of play with his kit hardly needing to be laundered and with a smile and insouciant shrug.
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New York/Tokyo A mockingbird's insouciant calling ushered in Margarite Gol - doni DeCamillo's return to Astoria.
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