insouciance
the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference.
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How to use insouciance in a sentence
But as faking sincerity is difficult, replicating insouciance is a challenge.
Leno answered, lending a certain insouciance to his line reading.
But he was also a gifted actor, providing an interesting mélange of surfer dude insouciance with a hint of danger.
Actor Paul Walker, Star of ‘The Fast and the Furious’ Films, Dies In Car Crash | Marlow Stern | December 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIts insouciance with punctuation may lend the book an aura of difficulty, but in practice this is not the case.
No, this was “theater” pronounced with sunglasses and insouciance.
Lovely, with a show of insouciance, bagged three gerunds and one gerundive.
The Varmint | Owen JohnsonThe autopilot functioned perfectly, however, and Logan trusted it to the point of insouciance.
Tight Squeeze | Dean Charles IngIt was as truly part of her (and a growing part of her) as her brilliant enjoyment and insouciance.
Dodo's Daughter | E. F. BensonUnder its insouciance and extravagance lie many of the ideas that dictated his attitude as writer and as critic.
Oscar Wilde | Arthur RansomeSuch insouciance would have galled Miss Gabriel past endurance had it not, mercifully, lain outside her range of apprehension.
Major Vigoureux | A. T. Quiller-Couch
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