nonchalence

His calm nonchalence and personal devotion, provoking not one iota of reaction from anybody passing by, was somehow deeply reassuring.

Around London V Alistair Myles 2006

Through the hole I could see other people I remembered from my first year going about their business with a studied nonchalence.

Archive 2006-10-01 Alistair Myles 2006

For all I know I might well have passed him many times before, such was his affable nonchalence.

Archive 2006-08-01 Alistair Myles 2006

Through the hole I could see other people I remembered from my first year going about their business with a studied nonchalence.

Rest awhile Alistair Myles 2006

For all I know I might well have passed him many times before, such was his affable nonchalence.

Face time Alistair Myles 2006

His calm nonchalence and personal devotion, provoking not one iota of reaction from anybody passing by, was somehow deeply reassuring.

Archive 2006-09-01 Alistair Myles 2006

And in time these two build nests in the hearts of men, and quickly rear a progeny only too legitimate: and the ruin within the man is gradually consummated as the sublimities of his soul wither away and fade, and in ecstatic contemplation of our mortal parts we omit to exalt, and come to neglect in nonchalence, that within us which is immortal.

XII. On the Use of Masterpieces 1920

Aldeboran to Aldebaran, enter competely to enter completely, aplomb and nonchalence to aplomb and nonchalance, Hyppolytus to

Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

"Ye-yes," mumbled Jimmy with affected nonchalence and he knocked the heels of his boots together in order to keep his teeth from chattering.

Baby Mine Margaret Mayo 1916

"Ye-yes," mumbled Jimmy with affected nonchalence and he knocked the heels of his boots together in order to keep his teeth from chattering.

Baby Mine 1911