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

Here’s a timeline, by Kate Brannen, of the relationship between Manafort and Trump—which, contra Trump’s blitheness on the topic, goes deep.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2017

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

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2016

They emulate the innocence of the eye characteristic of the early painters, but despite their strong will they cannot recover the blitheness and sweetness, the native wood-note wild, nor recapture their many careless moods.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James