insouciance

How To Use insouciance In A Sentence

• It was neat and elegant, like all wild animals, with an air of aristocratic insouciance and good breeding.
• And so when up against quality opposition and they go a goal down, a certain insouciance manifests itself. Times, Sunday Times
• There are, admittedly, some who would contend that he can overdo the cavalier insouciance, but, assuredly, the confidence he oozes is certainly very welcome.
• Coupled with a 6-0 thrashing at Chelsea a week later it was a start that left a 37-year-old manager in his second Premier League season looking exposed, if not out of his depth, yet with a conjuror's insouciance Martínez pulled an unlikely win at Spurs out of the hat next to quieten a restless audience. Wigan's Roberto Martínez feels more English than Spanish
• Underneath the careful insouciance lay a thick seam of resolution. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
• It is also a remarkably accurate portrait of a family who, in two postwar generations, leap from the daily struggle to keep body and soul together to public school insouciance and confidence.
• Even at the best of times, Nicholls is hardly a model of laid-back insouciance.
• With his eclectic (for a don of that era) taste came a certain insouciance. Times, Sunday Times
• There was also a degree of insouciance about recycling the compost.
• Assayas seems obsessed by the workaday world of Hong Kong with its mass insouciance as a crossroads of international, interlingual and interracial commerce and industry, which leaves it little time to pause and notice a desperate European woman running for her life," writes GreenCine Daily