insouciance
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And with the new millennium fast approaching, the consumer needed Jacobs’ brand of sartorial insouciance.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026
The Australian, who was ranked 13th in the world at his peak, played with an air of insouciance throughout.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025
In another cast, opposite the less effective Isaac Hernández, Léa Fleytoux played the ballet’s jaunty interloper with insouciance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025
Parrilla finds the balance between Bruiser’s sauciness and seriousness; Byrne plays the clown adeptly; and Slattery, a boss again after “Mad Men,” softens his villainy with some Roger Sterling insouciance.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
Chamberlin had planned the meeting as a trap to try to shatter Holmes’s imperturbable façade, and was impressed with Holmes’s ability to maintain his insouciance despite the rancor in the room.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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