insouciant

Example Sentences

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On one side of her imaginary rocket, two women strike the insouciant pose of Lucas Cranach’s the Elder’s 1529 canvas, “Venus standing in a landscape.”

From Los Angeles Times

Periodically, she would give the braid an insouciant toss, somewhat in the manner of a contestant on a vogueing runway.

From New York Times

This shuffle of identities is insouciantly performed as a minstrel carnival.

From Los Angeles Times

His second includes a joke: Imaginary dirt, insouciantly tossed in the air, has to be flicked off a moment later.

From New York Times

She said this last part, about the mugs, with such a charmingly insouciant shrug that by the time she signed off — “Can’t wait to see you, cheers” — I felt, actually, happy for her.

From New York Times