Insouciance

The sheer insouciance from the IRS towards all tax-deviant clerics following Pulpit Freedom Sundays in 2008 and 2009 leaves little precedent for a change in policy this year. ❋ Stuart Whatley (2010)

But his carelessness--what some have the nerve to call his insouciance putting a positive, oh-so-Continental spin on good old-fashioned incompetence--was his undoing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The pictures above show Smokey's parents, Sam & Braise, illustrating the concept of "méfiance" (see Sam, left) and carefree "insouciance" (see Braise, right). ❋ Unknown (2009)

In fact, the Fiver isn't even sure you spell insouciance "insouciance", it just typed the letters out, sat back in front of the television and waited for the microwaves to wash it out to sea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr. Blair proffers a stauch defence of the U. K.'s "special relationship" with the U.S. and says he finds the "insouciance" with which it is treated in some quarters as "a little shocking". ❋ Unknown (2010)

For example, far from displaying "insouciance" with respect to scientific questions, as Crews alleges, David Jacobs is quite right to dismiss as irrelevant skeptical worries about the presumed impracticality of interstellar travel. ❋ Dumm, Thomas L. (1998)

Suddenly, however, she laughed and a flash of the insouciance which is the keystone of her profession appeared in her smile. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1941)

He went his own way and lived as he pleased; having something about him of that shrewd, humorous, imperturbable "insouciance" which served Walt Whitman so well, and which is so much wiser, kindlier and more human a shield for an artist's freedom, than the sarcasms of a Whistler or the insolence of a Wilde. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

Amanda sauntered [casually] into the meeting room with an air of insouciance; if she was [worried] at all about her [presentation], she certainly didn't show it ❋ Your Grim Reaper (2003)

[cashier]: would you like your [check in] the bag? me: [fuck yourself] with it, i'm insouciant ❋ Margaretard (2008)

He is [really] [insouciance] about [the word] "insouciance" ❋ Thegreatsouthafrican (2017)

Honey, I'm thirsty -- hop on my [disco stick] and [mix me] up an [Insouciant Wensey]. ❋ Yambone III (2010)

Person 1: Hey, did you complete your part of the presentation on time? The meeting is in two days. Person 2: Nah... [It's whatever]... doesn't really matter Person 1: ...Shouldn't you at least try before it's too late? We're gonna need it Person 2: Honestly, [IDC] at this point. [I can't stand] this job anyway... Person 3: Wow. He's got such a bad insouciant attitude ❋ Noppidynope (2022)