Sentences with phrase «seeming nonchalance»

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.

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.

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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.

With his cultivated air of nonchalance, the trivialized, consequence - free violence and reverse - engineering of a plot threaded with convenient twists and unexpected arrivals, Wheatley seems intent upon lowering the stakes at every opportunity.

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.

From one angle, Mary Heilmann is the unlikeliest of candidates for painting stardom: over nearly four decades she has relied on a few off - the - rack modernist structures — generally grids or blocks of color over solid grounds — which she deploys with a nonchalance that seems to border on carelessness.

It doesn't seem so, and in some ways the entire week felt like a gigantic exercise in expectation management: Crossed Arms, Legitimate Constraints & Fidgeting Phone Use The exercise began at the opening ceremony, where body language seemed to reveal the subtext of the speeches: From Tony Blair's nonchalance and statements on how establishing a path was more important that specific targets, to Todd Stern's crossed arms and not - so - thinly veiled reference to «legitimate constraints» in US politics, to India's environment minister seemingly frustrated by it all, at times resting his head on his hands or fiddling with his Blackberry, all with an air of «nothing important is going to happen here», what wasn't verbalized was as important as what was.