nonchalance

How To Use nonchalance In A Sentence

• Europa, meanwhile, marcel-waved and flat-chested, faces the rear: legs crossed, back straight, in other words sitting in the attitude of stylish nonchalance one might associate with cinematic comedies of the 1930s. The Flight of Europa
• She showed a surprising nonchalance the first time she flew a plane.
• If she were to be submitted to my tuition, it would take me half a century to undo what old squaretoes and his prim wife have been prosing into her, to give her a fashionable manner, or becoming nonchalance. The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
• He admired the nonchalance of penny-dreadful criminals, and imitated it. Times, Sunday Times
• To mount the scaffolds . To advance to the muzzles of guns wit perfect nonchalance.
• With true aristocratic nonchalance, its dark interior resembled, not black broadcloth and leather, but a kind of agora, so littered was every surface with the hairs of her pack of King Charles spaniels. Michael Henry Adams: "Would You Like Me To Take My Shoes Off?", Dancing, Lunching and Laughing With Mrs. William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Mask He conceals his worries behind a mask of nonchalance.
• Here and there a man is puffing at his beloved "gasper" with the nonchalance that marks your bull-dog breed when stern work is afoot. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14
• Roos feigned nonchalance by studying the pictures of Paloma Blanca on the wall. FINAL RESORT
• Perhaps never," said Lilian, endeavoring, not very successfully, to steady her voice and speak with _nonchalance_, "unless you are willing to leave what you call your sphere and seek me in mine. Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest