blitheness
Example Sentences
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Most pointedly, Markley predicts we’ll retain a collective blitheness over mass loss of life, even up to the point when floodwaters are up to our necks.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023
This obviously ironic blitheness in fact calls back to Sondheim and Swift, who invoked cannibalism to drive home dark moral fables — though here it’s larded with an M.F.K.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2020
Asked about this consequence, Harris was dismissive to the point of blitheness.
From Fox News ● Jan. 29, 2019
She does so with a blitheness that often makes more earnest intentions hard to discern.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2016
They emulate the innocence of the eye characteristic of the early painters, but despite their strong will they cannot recover the blitheness and sweetness, the native wood-note wild, nor recapture their many careless moods.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
