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  • Promoted to Headline (H2) on 1/12/10: Insouciant Americans yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Insouciant Americans'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The "war on terror" is a far greater threat to Americans than all the terrorists in the world combined.

    Insouciant Americans 2010

  • Insouciant adventurer seeks new pleasant accomodation, fortifications a plus.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Meet-The Tiger! - Leslie Charteris Blue Tyson 2009

  • Insouciant enough, that is, to prefer Simenon to Stendhal, and intelligent enough to enjoy both.

    Furst Plunges His Meaty Dagger 2008

  • Insouciant American taxpayers have been bled for a half century to provide the Israelis with superior military weapons with which Israelis assault their neighbors, all the while convincing America -- essentially a captive nation -- that Israel is the victim.

    Jeff Halper's "An Israeli in Palestine" - Part II 2008

  • Insouciant adventurer seeks new pleasant accomodation, fortifications a plus.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Saint Meets the Tiger - Leslie Charteris Blue Tyson 2006

  • Insouciant enough, that is, to prefer Simenon to Stendhal, and intelligent enough to enjoy both.

    Furst Plunges His Meaty Dagger 2008

  • Insouciant, outrageous, arbitrary, false, absurd, astonishing, reckless — these are some of the words Bernard Lewis [NYR, June 24] uses to characterize what he interprets me as saying in Orientalism (1978).

    Orientalism: An Exchange Grabar, Oleg 1982

  • This Inglorious, Insouciant, Inept man holding the highest and (most undeserved) office in the land, speaks from both sides of his mouth at the same time, and often prematurely and stupidly.

    Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories 2010

  • Service Insouciant, Italian-speaking waiters go from leisurely to speedy at the flick of a napkin.

    unknown title 2009

  • Insouciant to the charms of Obama, the excellent Krauthammer endorsed Senator John McCain.

    The Thunder Run 2008

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