insouciant

Tall and lean, Mr. Shih smiled for the cameras, his hands tucked in his pockets, in what he said was an effort to convey insouciant confidence.

This demand gives the lie to a common misconception of liberalism, namely, that it is an ethic of insouciant self-indulgence, a politics for blithe egoists.

Reva said he was confident that the soul of Odesa — insouciant, sardonic, seductive — would survive the war.

Trump defiantly planned a victory lap and campaign event for his arraignment day—the media complied by covering him as insouciant.

Faced with criticism of the book’s uncredited reliance on anthropological research, Andrade offered up, in an open letter, a typically insouciant response: “I copied Brazil.”