Sentences with phrase «nonchalance when»

There is no place for post-modern irony and nonchalance when the future of humanity is at stake.

She affects nonchalance when described as a mayoral puppet: «You can call me Mini-Me.

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«After all it's only the purely immediate men — who so far as spirit is concerned are about at the same point as the child in the first period of earliest infancy when with a thoroughly endearing nonchalance it lets everything pass out — it's the purely immediate men who can't retain anything.

When I broke down Watkins before the draft, I never saw him go after a ball thrown to him with that kind of nonchalance.

When I came home, I shared the news with my family, who met me with equal parts enthusiasm and nonchalance («the first book or the second book, Mama?»

I love the confidence displayed in this photo by Gráinne Kerr of Northern Ireland, UK, in her seeming nonchalance, when, in fact, she has everything under control.

When asked what the French women's wardrobe essentials are, Elisa Nalin said, «A trench coat, a pair of good jeans, black high heels, a little black dress, a striped top, and a lot of «nonchalance».

At the heart of the film is an American graduate student named Oliver (Armie Hammer, wielding dashing nonchalance to utmost charm) on archeological research in Italy and the student's host professor's 17 - year - old son, Elio (Timothée Chalamet), a sexually confident teen with the ladies who falls to emotional pieces when he crushes hard on Oliver.

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.»