| The unbruised adolescent ego likes its angst to be clear-cut and attributable to the denigrations of an insouciant universe. |
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| Inspirational and imbued with an engaging, multidimensional personality on the park, he can be infuriatingly insouciant and ungiving off it. |
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| Its driver, insouciant about having one more dent to add to the several he had already accumulated, waved an airy palm of instant forgiveness. |
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| But whatever the insouciant stage persona said, underneath Smith desperately wanted approval. |
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| In this regard several essays published in 1987 clearly mark a turning point, not to mention the insouciant crashing of psychoanalytic theory on the Black Studies scene. |
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| But then Becker observed him jumping nervously up and down, behind the insouciant Swiss seraph, as they waited to step on to court. |
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| This is the same man who, it is said, provided the paradigm for a generation of swaggering, insouciant Britpoppers. |
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| Markets have been insouciant about the tensions between the radical-left government of Alexis Tsipras and the rest of the euro zone. |
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| Extant anthropoids appear to be blithely insouciant to such syndromes. |
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| It is an example of insouciant royal play, and the fun of something going wrong. |
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| With that mask on, I fluff the ends of my hair into a structured but insouciant flip. |
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| Derrick, however, is also the prime locus of the film's insouciant hypocrisy, since it wants to paint him as a slobbering, exploitative cretin while inviting the audience to savor the fruits of that cretinism. |
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| This may cost a lot, although the commission is insouciant about banks: it says computers need upgrading anyway, so the arrival of the euro may not mean genuine extra costs. |
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| Ultracool jazz musicians and singers, jaunty boulevardiers, insouciant diners, and lolling lounge lizards populate DeBusk's idiosyncratic world. |
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| It was there that on Sunday I had seen the populace disport itself, and it was full of life then, gay and insouciant. |
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| The D major of this group turns to the minor for the development, but that brief moment of intensity does not seriously undermine the overall confidence and insouciant purpose of the movement. |
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| None of that appears to matter a tinker's cuss to the callow, black-clad 20-year-old with a bowl cut who strolls on stage with the insouciant cool of a young Lennon, plugs in, and fires through 20 songs in a mere 75 minutes. |
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| This impulse, pitted against the insouciant acute observational approach informed by Tibillus makes for a knottily pleasurable prosody in the main. |
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