unconcern

His attitude veered from playful unconcern to cool indifference, as he told macabre jokes about surviving riots and poked fun at clichés and stereotypes about Muslims.

Repression has become fierce and the war Mr. Putin started in Ukraine has been waged with near total unconcern for the consequences of his decision, a human trait that John le Carré once described as “a primary qualification for psychopathy.”

Most of Ukraine’s ravaged cultural sites are like the shelled Reims Cathedral: perhaps not directly targeted, but destroyed with ruthless unconcern.

It takes time to figure all of this out, which may signal confidence in the audience on the part of Wills and Tarker, or brash unconcern.

He’s moved with glorious unconcern from starring at legendary events such as Monterey Pop to playing for a few hometown friends and admirers, and he’s done it all without the least trace of bitterness or self-pity.