devil-may-care
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The lime-green background and blurry typography on the cover of her sixth album, “Brat,” quickly became internet shorthand for the season’s pursuit of devil-may-care indulgence and personal adventure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
So much of Calloway’s persona rested on her brilliant ideas tempered by charming ineptitude, her devil-may-care approach to her own fame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
Gone, too, was the shrugging, devil-may-care plausible deniability.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2024
“It was this wash of devil-may-care, it’s-exciting-to-push-boundaries-or-just-have-no-boundaries, and women were less than,” Shaparak Khorsandi, an early peer of Brand’s on the comedy circuit, told me of the era that made him.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
It’s an impatient, devil-may-care, chip-toothed smile on an off-kilter, asymmetrical face.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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