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nonchalance

[non-shuh-lahns, non-shuh-lahns, -luhns] / ˌnɒn ʃəˈlɑns, ˈnɒn ʃəˌlɑns, -ləns /


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What makes him such an unusual comedic voice is that he has built his distinctive sensibility on a quality rare among stand-ups: Nonchalance.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2020

On another, signifying Nonchalance, were printed the words “Mi dimentico, mentre lo faccio,” which was translated as “I forget about it while I’m doing it.”

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2018

Nonchalance should be a dirty word for Kyrgios at this stage after his suspension by the men’s tour at the end of 2016 for a lack of effort during a defeat in Shanghai.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2017

Nonchalance had vanished at the grim touch of actuality.

From Time Magazine Archive

Strange is it not that, oft her Dolour cloaking In hurried Puffs with Nonchalance provoking, No woman reads that apodictic Ode "How to be Happy Even Though You're Smoking?"

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Irwin, Wallace




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