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Mr. Deneen views the American Founding as a set of liberal ideas, influenced by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, that gave us the devil-may-care economics that has ultimately spoiled the country.

So much of Calloway’s persona rested on her brilliant ideas tempered by charming ineptitude, her devil-may-care approach to her own fame.

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With dark blond hair and hazel eyes, Denise had a youthful beauty and hid her tough circumstances under a devil-may-care attitude.

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So, with that history, I just threw everything into it in a kind of devil-may-care way.

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For her, Gary constructs Ron, a dashing, swaggering fellow with devil-may-care insouciance and a hint of real danger.

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