insouciance
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Let’s hope his insouciance isn’t as contagious as the virus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
Cummins has photographed the band for three decades, and always admired how Oasis fans identified with their working-class insouciance and biting humor.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025
City's team structure has seldom afforded Grealish the license to take on and glide past opponents as he did with such insouciance as the talismanic captain at boyhood club Aston Villa.
From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025
The juvenile insouciance of Blenkin’s trillionaire is one, a grinning imp who waves his bare feet around in the way of someone who means every offense.
From Salon • Aug. 5, 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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