blitheness

Example Sentences

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Most pointedly, Markley predicts we’ll retain a collective blitheness over mass loss of life, even up to the point when floodwaters are up to our necks.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023

Leung, who makes the overwrought HBO show “Industry” very nearly watchable, lends both blitheness and depth to Basil, even while saddled with an outlandish accent.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

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

His intellect and his sensuousness, of Jewish origin, were wedded with Rhenish fancy and blitheness, and over these qualities the pale moonshine of romanticism shed its glamour.

From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Karpeles, Gustav