blithe

Example Sentences

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Such blithe thinking frequently caused Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan to lament “the leakage of reality from American life.”

From Washington Post

The tenor Stephen Costello sang with blithe, poised arrogance — and his characteristic physical stiffness, his stock gestures, somehow worked.

From New York Times

Palmer acknowledges this with a blithe neutrality, saying “we should be just as wary of inflation of uncertainty as of attempts to make predictions more certain than can be justified.”

From Scientific American

But the film suffers from a similar problem, depicting her crisis with the blithe touch of a stand-up routine.

From Washington Post

She is blithe about the risks of experimenting with large-scale Earth systems, saying that if geoengineering interventions produced unhappy side effects, we could just stop.

From Washington Post