nonchalance

• “There's a certain nonchalance that people kind of ...”

  The Huffington Post: Kelly Maher: Enthusiasm Gap? Colorado's Would-Be Governor Laments Lack of Crowds (VIDEO)

• “Gene Taylor used to be my Rep.; always thought he was a decent guy for a Conservadem but his nonchalance is sickening.”

  Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Ninety Days of Hell from Decades of Neglect

• “One reason for our nonchalance is that new technologies have gotten us out of many past scrapes — and maybe they will with orbital debris, too.”

  The Danger of Space Junk

• “As it is, Bone’s attraction to Thorn meets only humor and nonchalance from the other characters.”

  The Vivisection of Bone, Part 1: Romancing the Bone

• “Schooling her expression into nonchalance, she turned toward him.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Hellion in Her Bed

• “I now realize that my nonchalance was a privilege because, as with most things, my mom was right.”

  Global Feminism in the News: Women & Clothing « Gender Across Borders

• “Her nonchalance was a pose she'd affected to hide her despair.”

  Where There's Smoke

• “Yet this feeling, whether it is to be called nonchalance or despair, has its advantages for the moment; it renders the individual considerably careless of the worst that man can do to him; and I began to question my oratorical judge's clerk on the events in the "city of cities.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844

• “Boy or girl, I would name it Danru" "nonchalance" -a good Buddhist name, as if this baby would never be attached to anything in this life, not even its own mother.”

  The Kitchen God's wife

• “Easy "nonchalance", "lightness and charm" are often referred to here as attractive qualities – and as forms of self-defence.”

  The Guardian: The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín – Review

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