Sentences with phrase «nonchalance through»

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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.

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.

In fact, driving through downtown San Francisco with the top down, we were getting so many rubbernecking looks that we began to nod in George Cloonian nonchalance as we cruised by the star - struck pedestrians.

So, I've been looking forward to reading A Gate at the Stairs since its fall publication, when it was described in BookPage as «solidly and delightfully Lorrie Moore territory; there's the isolated, intelligent female narrator who both hides and survives through her humor and nonchalance; the Midwestern landscape that stretches with ennui and possibility; the pithy wordplay that is as haunting as it is lighthearted.»

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.

Addressing the image field with brassy assertiveness, the artist slashes through vintage Marlboro ads, moon landings and sundry epic (and not so epic) moments in American history, reordering both the content and formal properties with a cheeky nonchalance.