"Nonchalance" means to show a lack of concern, interest, or enthusiasm about something, often appearing relaxed or indifferent.
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Ensure that you don't confuse her strong mind and assertiveness
with nonchalance for adoration!
Therefore, I love having that feeling of
nonchalance in all of my outfits.
The boy's social worker Paula (Rachel House) says the kid is trouble, listing such trivial offenses as spitting and throwing rocks with the same degree of
nonchalance as Ricky's tendency to set things on fire (In her mind, all forms of misbehavior are equal).
He didn't do this with the
casual nonchalance of an outfielder trying to earn style points.
But for what it's worth, San Jose mayor Chuck Green greeted the report's findings with
cool nonchalance, if not ambivalence:
Citing roots in Giacometti's post-war portraits, an interview with Philip Guston, Jean - Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness, Tang dynasty historian Chang Yen - Yuan's praise of the incomplete, and of course, the writings of Samuel Beckett, Rubinstein concludes that it's the
apparent nonchalance of abstract painting and the lack of pretense or fussiness that mark paintings as NOW.
Entirely dedicated to the golf players and triumphant in this arena, the Golf Bar at ITC Maurya serve finest selections of wines, spirits and premium cigar brands in
perfect nonchalance.
Abstraction dominates, as do canvas and other stretched fabrics, along with an air of
studied nonchalance, especially in works by Michael Majerus, Michael Krebber, Blinky Palermo and Reena Spaulings (spots of red wine on a tablecloth — how daring).»
Yet, the people who were inclined to dismiss the matter of polygamy were treating with a
certain nonchalance something that deserved to be treated with far more caution and sobriety.
Cleansed a little of our inhibitions and our clanishness, we are being sent out with the beginnings of a new openness and a new
nonchalance about ourselves.
Set in A.D. 43, during the second Roman invasion of the British Isles - to - be, the nine - part Britannia also displays what might be an unfortunate side effect of the rise of bingeable drama — the
seeming nonchalance with which writers are approaching a storyline.
Yet they also recognized openly they couldn't «be themselves» at work with the
same nonchalance as their average middle - age white male peer.
Also, he's expressed
nonchalance toward one of organized labor's most potent weapons: scathing advertising.
Why the public prefers cool, calculated
nonchalance over effusive ambition to please is an argument (perhaps loaded with gender politics) for another day, but suffice it to say, Anne Hathaway is a little bit annoying in this movie.
But when he displays such
nonchalance regarding the safe disposal of nuclear waste, it's difficult to view his energy strategy as being as adequately nuanced as it should be — nuclear power is perhaps the most serious, complicated energy source there is.
«We doubled production every year in the beginning, reinvesting everything we made back into the company and gradually bought up [other companies] as we went,» CEO Glenn Cooke says with a
breezy nonchalance that is rooted in humility.
There is no place for post-modern irony and
nonchalance when the future of humanity is at stake.
Slip into the red leather miniskirt for a bold finish, or opt for cool -
girl nonchalance with the label's signature logo - branded basics.
But to be fair: Tower Heist sports a cast of (mostly) well - seasoned actors who inhibit their roles with
easy nonchalance.
She can pull off
nonchalance while maintaining naiveté, and something about the way she answers a question about seeing animals — a pause, then, «Dogs... all my life» — hints at some deeper mystery to her take on the character.
We used mud for a portion of our drive, and the Explorer powered through the clay hills with the same
nonchalance displayed on the open highway.
For principled refusal fuels every aspect of Lawler's exacting practice, which is marked by the artist's reservation with respect to doing what's deemed proper for a successful career, and reticence, if masked
by nonchalance, in response to the demand for a signature artistic identity.
Its flashes of absurdity and
nonchalance feel like what would happen if Broad City elected a sarcastic bisexual mayor.
Anderson Cooper, the famed journalist, tv personality and author, has outed himself as gay, after being prompted by an Entertainment Weekly story about the
growing nonchalance of celebrity homosexuality.
His dribbling ability, vision and prowess, combined with an air of
nonchalance makes him one of the leagues most freightning talents.
The kick — called the cucchiaio, or spoon — became Totti's signature move and seems to embody all the Roma captain's
wily nonchalance and panache.
His arrival is a blessing in the wake of Alexis-gate, having endured his attitude and
nonchalance through - out this season, and getting a player in the shape of Mkhi when some had become resigned to losing Alexis for nothing in the summer is amazing business.
While a lot of goals would be conceded, the
sheer nonchalance of a side managed by the former Manchester United man would be something to behold.
Well, yes, but you are going to be much more successful if you project the
bored nonchalance of an amusement park ride operator.
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