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an elegantly insouciant manner
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an utterly insouciant financial policy
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She'd become different lately: she'd become brittle, insouciant, reckless in a new way.† (source)
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But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring.† (source)
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In this setting, another, more insouciant company had hunkered down.† (source)
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These calls are familiar to Pari, but repetition has not led to insouciance on her part.† (source)
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There was a word for him that her mother would have used—insouciant.† (source)
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Chamberlin had planned the meeting as a trap to try to shatter Holmes's imperturbable façade, and was impressed with Holmes's ability to maintain his insouciance despite the rancor in the room.† (source)
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In the picture, she is holding a cigarette like she is bored—elbow tucked into her side, head tilted up insouciantly—but her gaze is penetrating, defiant.† (source)
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'Of course,' Colonel Korn answered pleasantly, after he had chased the mighty guard of massive M.P.s out with an insouciant flick of his hand and a slightly contemptuous nod — most relaxed, as always, when he could be most cynical.† (source)
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Ruth knows that I am lying, but she pretends to believe me, chattering on with a forced insouciance.† (source)
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'And just in time, too,' announced the doctor with whom Yossarian next found himself alone, a tall, torpedo-shaped congenial man with an unshaven growth of brown beard and a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket that he chain-smoked insouciantly as he leaned against the wall.† (source)
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Where other elite athletes betray their doubts about their capacities with displays of touchy egotism, Woolf was utterly insouciant.† (source)
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He stretched, yawned hugely, and with an appearance of idle insouciance began to amble nff toward the spot where Albert lay.† (source)
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The living room in the front of the house was empty and still, but there were uniforms scattered on coffee tables and chairs and slung insouciantly across a baby grand piano.† (source)
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When she scratched the screen door, as in the old days, and stepped inside, the dishes piled in the sink looked as though they belonged there; the dust on the lamps sparkled; the hair brush lying on the "good" sofa in the living room did not have to be apologetically retrieved, and Nel's grimy intractable children looked like three wild things happily insouciant in the May shine.† (source)
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