blitheness

Example Sentences

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This obviously ironic blitheness in fact calls back to Sondheim and Swift, who invoked cannibalism to drive home dark moral fables — though here it’s larded with an M.F.K.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2020

Asked about this consequence, Harris was dismissive to the point of blitheness.

From Fox News • Jan. 29, 2019

The blue-heavy “Drifting” even dispenses altogether with black, giving the picture the blitheness its name promises.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2016

She does so with a blitheness that often makes more earnest intentions hard to discern.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2016

The song sung, they fell on their knees and respectfully craved of him leave to depart, who, albeit their departure was grievous to him, yet with a show of blitheness accorded it to them.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John