| Alternating between blase nonchalance and brisk nattiness, the author was the matinee idol for fans and scholars alike. |
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| Such was the difference in class that All Stars stroked the ball around with a nonchalance that sometimes bordered on the arrogant. |
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| He sweeps through the Debussy pieces with a nonchalance that is almost disarming but his keyboard touch is indeed lithe and very beautiful. |
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| Visitors who linger in Madagascar often come to view even ominous setbacks with a Malagasy nonchalance. |
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| Despite his attempt at nonchalance, Jason noticed the catch in his voice immediately. |
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| This sets the boys into a frenzy of competitiveness carefully concealed behind the private school ethic of nonchalance. |
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| Laurie was particularly effective at capturing Bertie's distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness. |
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| He's not frightened of mixing bluegrass religiosity, slacker nonchalance or even English folk rock into his music. |
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| My own nonchalance about spellworking does not mean I hold those who constantly perform it in any less regard. |
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| My confidence was returning despite his nonchalance and I sped my pace up to walk beside him. |
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| His nonchalance and cool attitude towards her was really beginning to bug her in more ways than one. |
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| The screen projections were cool, and the nonchalance of the band provided enough room to get into their music. |
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| Nevertheless, playing the field required a certain nonchalance and confidence neither of which I appeared to be able to muster. |
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| They can give a Saturday morning hangover at the coffee bar an air of elegant nonchalance. |
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| He pounded out four espresso with such nonchalance, but the crema was dripping thick, and the shots looked amazing. |
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| If Robertson is infectiously bombastic about theatre, there's a surprising nonchalance about his career on screen. |
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| But the nonchalance with which that word is bandied about in contemporary society, is just as characteristic of it as its banalisation. |
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| As with the irregularly shaped planets whose wire armatures appeared to be bent by hand, these imperfect stars were made sweet by their tacky nonchalance. |
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| Youths seek out shade under trees and adopt poses of nonchalance, but there is an infectious air of languid excitement for the upcoming performances. |
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| The fish came up for the dry fly slowly, almost lazily, with the entitled nonchalance of a fat man reaching for a profiterole. |
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| This nonchalance is due to the energetic Contact of the soul that is not Conscious of the parceling of time That belongs to adults. |
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| Perfunctoriness seems to hint at a lack of care, and even a kind of nonchalance. |
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| A street-side news vender, with an apparent nonchalance belying the untouchable lowness of his trade, approached my partly open window. |
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| The singer somewhat overplays his famous nonchalance and ends up coming across as more affable than cynical, more amiable than sarcastic. |
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| The bag, it almost goes without saying, was a Birkin from Herm? the fastening straps left unclasped with accustomed and deliberate nonchalance. |
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| But if ordinary citizens begin to complain, as many may with the health-service cuts, nonchalance will become less easy. |
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| Not everyone, however, will be ready to view this kind of outcome with the ex-President's nonchalance. |
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| That came from youthful exuberance and the nonchalance I had as a young man. |
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| Walking to a bus stop is laborious, because of the density of people and of the nonchalance of tourists. |
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| Ricky Ponting, who gets up and scores centuries these days with the nonchalance of a man having a shave, was facing the press after his third ton in three Tests. |
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| I thought his nonchalance suggested that he failed to grasp the gravity of his situation. |
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| I tried to understand the ill-humored nonchalance that had overtaken me. |
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| And many of them can be attributed to a certain nonchalance or carelessness. |
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| This is not a time to manipulate or skulk into situations sideways, attempting to give a false impression of nonchalance. |
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| The edges have been softened with a 1000 watt power sander, but tonight the band still carry themselves with nonchalance and careless booziness as usual. |
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| In an act of complete nonchalance, the 23 year-old Southampton lad started a food fight leaving other guests liable to be pasted with flying fish remains and crustaceans. |
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| When the tax system is viewed as being unfair, there is also, unfortunately, a certain nonchalance in the public opinion about everything that relates to tax evasion. |
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| Mere mention of its name made us think of an interior world, an idealized landscape of multicolored icons and traditions, intermingled with fatalism and nonchalance, manifestations of inpenetrable oriental wisdom. |
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| Tells of the old-time vaudeville team of Sweeney and Duffy their hilarious act which was marked by a certain laborsaving nonchalance and by a kind of mild dementia that puzzled the average playgoer. |
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| The second Bush administration has devoted a great deal of effort to rebuilding some of the bridges that the first administration blew up with such nonchalance. |
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| There's something unutterably cool about slinging on a grey knit that doesn't really fit – it invokes Parisian nonchalance and is brilliantly low maintenance. |
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| These gestures, performed with the nonchalance of a daily chore, appeared and disappeared arrhythmically, weaving an intricate texture. |
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| What struck me — besides the extraordinary fact of having the sensorium of a centenarian represented for almost the first time in history — was the nonchalance of her poems, their modesty. |
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| Wilson also argued that behind the public nonchalance lay a real professional. |
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| Roberto Cavalli lives life on a level of fabulosity that's hard for anyone outside the fashion elite to imagine, and yet he handles it with an attitude of casual nonchalance. |
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| But, for all their feint of nonchalance, these young persons have no other task in life but to explain and extol their own conduct and to vilipend their critics and opponents. |
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