| They showed their insouciance by sticking six-inch straws in their mouths and flicking them with the swipple at each pass. |
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| Her sultry good looks, airy insouciance and withering scorn would have made me her instant slave. |
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| In these, and all matters, Laursen's expressionless tone and apparent insouciance can be misleading. |
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| The same insouciance was evident in the other revelation anent local government last week. |
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| Such insouciance sets an example, to be sure, but not the sort that allows match officials to sleep easily. |
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| Wahlberg gives the same performance as in his last five movies and lacks the breezy insouciance the picture needs. |
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| Releasing a fierce battle cry, I pounded flailing fist after flailing fist onto him, oblivious to his insouciance and lack of flinching. |
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| He has that enviably precise balance of familiarity and distance, humor and restraint, insouciance laced with respect. |
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| Mostly, though, Sanders' cheerful insouciance could not be less calculating. |
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| I find his insouciance about the difficulty of figuring out ethics disconcerting, though he's right that Nietzsche collapses into Platonism. |
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| In the rainy months, a symphony of leaks puddled her floor, though she never cared, plashing through, with a duck's insouciance. |
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| As she leans with sinuous insouciance against Billy's flank, her unfeigned ease fills the image with sexual heat. |
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| Even at the best of times, Nicholls is hardly a model of laid-back insouciance. |
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| With the fiscal crisis in parts of the euro zone barely contained, such insouciance seemed odd. |
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| Then, they can manipulate these incredibly heavy pieces of metal and wood with an insouciance which has me hyperventilating with anxiety. |
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| His insouciance spreads a calm that would have you believe that there is nothing that makes his first post different from any other managerial position. |
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| Their addiction to the intoxicating thrill of climbing, coupled with the magnificent insouciance of youth, led them to take on a challenge which had defeated everyone else. |
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| There was also a degree of insouciance about recycling the compost. |
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| There are, admittedly, some who would contend that he can overdo the cavalier insouciance, but, assuredly, the confidence he oozes is certainly very welcome. |
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| Its unhappy record of arrogant insouciance and incompetence as a monopoly service provider has given its new rivals a record of leaky credibility against which to run. |
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| He shot his mouth off with even more relish than he shot cops, and such insouciance won him ill-deserved acclaim. |
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| Still, buyers can no longer be pitted against one another with insouciance. |
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| Some might suppose such a comprehensive absence of thought amounted to insouciance. |
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| His glorious insouciance worked brilliantly as counterpoint to the eager beaver chairman, Nicholas Parsons. |
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| Its insouciance with punctuation may lend the book an aura of difficulty, but in practice this is not the case. |
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| This would seem to explain their insouciance about appearing as actors in a drama series that will, if all goes to plan, transform them into successful musicians. |
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| I wish I could agree with this call for mature insouciance, one year on. |
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| Perhaps this partly explains the stoicism and insouciance of those Brits interviewed on the streets, all of whom seemed to know that a certain sang-froid was expected of them. |
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| This insouciance may come back to haunt Yellen. |
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| Once on the construction site, he is as agile as a cat, scaling the scaffolding with ease, poised over stomache churning drops with the insouciance of a feline. |
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| Appealing insouciance leavened by pragmatic concerns sure to strike a chord with audiences that appreciate classic melodrama unpretentiously renovated for the 21st century. |
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| Attuned to contradiction and multeity, he could blend youthful insouciance with Blougram's mature sophistry. |
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| Their insouciance, their joie de vivre, their outrageousness or their originality makes the world, if not a little better, then at least a bit more interesting. |
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| I reveled in my devil-may-care insouciance. |
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| Soon her son joined her before the camera, with similar insouciance. |
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| But there was no sign of intrepidness from Miodrag Radulovic's men, instead confusion, insouciance and ineptitude defined their quite dismal display. |
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| Lydia's character invites the reader to imagine that the very quality of insouciance, of ineducability, so stron gly marked in her mother, might also be a kind of strength. |
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