unconcern

Example Sentences

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Even on death row, he retained his aura of blithe unconcern.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2024

There is no other way to read “we’re gonna find out” than “if I’m wrong, people will die,” but the message is delivered with extraordinary unconcern.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2020

I suppose its general intent is to serve for a woman who wants to distinguish, and perhaps to ironize, her participation in the entrenched trend of military wear by professing unconcern with style.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 21, 2018

Rose’s unconcern at their long times apart — their separate vacations, even — is no less a mystery than before.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2016

They were avoiding the topic with a deliberate unconcern; he must be somewhere now, I thought, doing something, what I didn’t want to ask.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt