Sample Sentences forinsouciant (auto-selected)
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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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But for all their apparent insouciance in the face of falling shells and shorter rations, for all their ignoring the Yankees, barely half a mile away, and for all their boundless confidence in the ragged line of gray men in the rifle pits, there pulsed, just below the skin of Atlanta, a wild uncertainty over what the next day would bring.† (source)
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In this setting, another, more insouciant company had hunkered down.† (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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'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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He tossed his noble head with arrogant, insouciant pleasure, as if totally possessed by the fluid grace which sculpted and gave motion to his galloping forelegs and hindquarters and by the furiously healthy power energizing his being.† (source)
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Too insouciant, in reaction from the late disturbance, she had assumed the privileges of a child—the result being to remind the Divers of their exclusive love for their own children; Rosemary was sharply rebuked in a short passage between the women: "You'd better leave the message with a waiter," Nicole's voice was stern and unmodulated, "we're leaving immediately."† (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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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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There was a word for him that her mother would have used—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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'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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She'd become different lately: she'd become brittle, insouciant, reckless in a new way.† (source)
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I had neversmoked a cigarette, and I tried to imitate Mark's brooding, sorrowful insouciance as he blew symmetrical plumes of smoke toward the ceiling.† (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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But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring.† (source)
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