insouciance

Or, to put it another way and teach the Chinese authorities a good bit of teenage Anglo-American insouciance: good luck with that.

But tell me, dear reader, what do you make of this? I'm all for a bit of insouciance with a greenwash, but would it go with the rug?

And yet, despite all, he notes how they manage to "bring a calm insouciance to a demanding job" .

"I understand egg futures are up, " I ventured finally, feigning the insouciance of a man who merged corporations as a sideline.

But in the face of an obvious danger of overheating, such insouciance should prompt concern; not a rush to take on more risks.

At public meetings or in television interviews he brushes off boos, taunts and evidence with a supreme insouciance.

Nonetheless, the media have been transfixed by what they see as a spectacle of presidential insouciance.

The ultimate responsibility for this insouciance lies with the proprietors who now dominate Fleet Street's culture.

It is an artificial construct created by man to justify his inactions and insouciance.

Events have imbued the Japanese corporate warrior with a new insouciance.

"Calm insouciance" - how's that for a vice-chancellor's job description?

The very direness of this possibility has produced a certain insouciance.

I couldn't help but believe him; he had too much geeky insouciance to be lying.

President Barack Obama stated, with unilateralist insouciance, that FIFA had made the wrong choice.

It is doubly worrying given the Democrats' seeming insouciance about politicising the Fed.

On all three counts, American diplomats are frustrated by what they see as Europe's insouciance.

He applies the same insouciance to other dubious choices.

Insouciance seems less likely when the starting point is much higher debt.

He maintained a calm insouciance.

The government's insouciance is perhaps understandable.

Let not your minds or hearts be troubled at the insouciance, poor understanding or shortsightedness of your brothers;