insouciance

• In his correspondence of this time there are suddenly noticeable a gayety and an insouciance which are elements wholly new in his letters. —  Henrik Ibsen
• Suddenly, however, she laughed and a flash of the insouciance which is the keystone of her profession appeared in her smile. —  The Fashion in Shrouds - Margery Allingham - Campion 10
• Only Ellen kept up a cheerful insouciance, half maddening, half heartbreaking; Bella fed biscuits to her dog, a small white whiskery animal called Bobbin which sat up with a rock-like steadiness holding its mouth wide open to receive the fragments which, from a really astonishing distance, she threw to it. —  Suddenly At His Residence - Christianna Brand - Inspector Cockrill 03: 1947
• Around her neck was knotted, with crazy insouciance, a man's black bow tie. —  EQMM,August2008
• In her choice, in the suddenness of it, what could almost be described as the insouciance of it if it had not been experienced as so urgent, Pat Poynton was not unique or even unusual; worldwide, polls showed, voting was running high against life on earth as we know it, and in favor of whatever it was that your YES was said to, about which opinions differed. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 03 - September 1996

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