Sentences with phrase «between nonchalance»

One of the great problems for those living in the UK has always been its somewhat random approach to administration, veering between nonchalance and mercilessness, so that a migrant is typically not required to do any kind of paperwork in order to get on with their life, but should they for whatever reason actually need to prove that they have been resident for the past years will be faced with inflexible demands that they document every weekend away, every job and home, and almost every pizza that they have ordered.

However, there's a thin line between nonchalance and trying too hard, you don't want to cross.

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But Yalungana's nonchalance — and the unbuffered contact between people and wild animals it engenders — is the basic narrative of spillover stories.

He illustrates the key themes of the narrative, veering between vindictive unease at how he is expected to react to seismic changes in his life through to a comic nonchalance that makes the name switches, sexual confusion and psychiatry visits seem achingly hip.

Amongst the raucous set presence of outlandish comedian Rodney Dangerfield serving up ample doses of crazy in each of his scenes (a scene - stealer if there ever was one), Chevy Chase's nonchalance as resident pro golfer — not to be believed either, which makes it even better if you ask me — and the drama that unfolds between Bill Murray and a goddamn gopher, rests a true Harold Ramis test piece.

Riley responds with the learned nonchalance of someone who has traveled through Europe alone with little regard for personal safety, despite having acquired genital lice in a public bathroom somewhere between Switzerland and Spain.