blitheness

Example Sentences

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The story looks real but lacks the texture of reality, and the high stakes of a missing child, intended to give the video power, only make its plastic blitheness infuriating.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2021

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

Here’s a timeline, by Kate Brannen, of the relationship between Manafort and Trump—which, contra Trump’s blitheness on the topic, goes deep.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2017

And he seems to know it, in his secret heart of hearts, for he tries to make up for that loss with a sort of coerced blitheness which doesn’t always carry.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)