Sentences with phrase «feign nonchalance»

Take the disquieting scene at the subway station: A body, indigent in appearance, slumped at the bottom of exit stairs; two cops, arms crossed, feigning nonchalance; a torrent of white - collar commuters rushing from the trains, sidestepping the body, filing up the stairs.

But their feigned nonchalance couldn't hide the fact that they were labouring under a tremendous handicap: with the water in their ponds freezing solid, they looked plain silly trying to skate in their hip - waders, and how could they be expected to win this climate - change game with a badly disfigured hockey stick?