In all, that made for a fairly truncated day today, but at least I now feel very blithe, and I had two excellent ideas for the book. |
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So far as subjective intentions were concerned, the directors proceeded in blithe disregard of the existence of the articles. |
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But he never scorned security with the blithe indifference of the radical ideologues who used him as an authority on the evils of welfare. |
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How do you strike the right balance between unnecessarily fostering fears and encouraging a blithe indifference to real and present dangers? |
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On a sunny day its beer garden is a blithe place to rest over a pint of locally-brewed ale. |
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The clerks, as usual, were full of rude health, chatting with blithe disregard. |
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Though he is famous for blithe dismissal of his elders, he was actually remarkably attentive to local history. |
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For two 50-minute sets the crowd shrugged and shimmied to the rhythm of a more blithe and brilliant era. |
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The wonder was that they did it with such blithe, unflappable grace and good humor. |
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Even the blithe lovebird will extirpate its rival suitor in the most gruesome manner. |
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Out of towering brown churches came the blithe music of anthems from the choirs. |
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Traffic changes are rammed through with apparently blithe indifference to issues affecting other elements of the transport system. |
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The outrageousness of his action is matched only by the blithe indifference with which he apparently expects to carry it off. |
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The rich, complex relationships forged in necessity and pain in the telemovie were but blithe footnotes in the series proper. |
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I admire your blithe spirit in the face of overwhelming reality, and your ballsy indifference to the same gloom that frequently swamps me. |
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Management don't know how bad the staff on the ground are, while ground staff parrot the official line with blithe indifference to the facts. |
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It was his record of blithe indifference to the magnitude of the challenge that helped lead us to vote for his opponent. |
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Between the two extremes of dogmatic adherence and blithe indifference to the text of the Constitution lies a reasonable and legal resolution. |
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Plenty of modern film-makers have attempted to emulate the blithe barbarity that lent Ealing comedies their sharp aftertaste. |
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For it is all over the Internet, in blithe disregard of copyright law, for any kid today to surf. |
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Flittering melodies, sunny, bouncing guitar lines and brushed percussion give the record a spirited, yet blithe air to it. |
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In its blithe disregard for niceties the film ends up being a rather clever satire on the whole idea of normality. |
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They want to see a more realistic attitude than the blithe assumption that cannabis inevitably leads to heroin. |
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Ojha is particularly convincing as the fast-talking Bobby, and his quick-fire exchanges with Rann are rich with theatrical sweeping statements and blithe assurance. |
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I missed Don's chiseled mug and Roger's blithe wisecracks and Peggy's prickly chutzpah. |
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Flashing a smug grin while throwing up your collective shoulders in blithe befuddlement should convince absolutely no one. |
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His family saga is playfully infused with intelligent and blithe confusion. |
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Something in that institution nurtures a blithe disregard for the facts. |
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These powerful images are a far cry from Scottish artist John Finnie's 1864 idealised Maids of All Work, looking blithe and bonny in crisp cottons. |
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The blithe assumption that higher charges can be painlessly met from profit margins was always suspect but is now exposed as a serious threat to recovery prospects. |
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Yet his blithe rejection of free speech is a formula for tyranny. |
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For such a blithe spirit, he certainly has a keen sense of the tragic. |
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The blithe spirit of the students perhaps best symbolises the fair that has evolved over the years, pitting the youngsters against their best peers. |
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With what blithe unconcern, too, it has disregarded the one-pointers. |
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This is a charter for the rich who don't care, for firms blithe enough to bung it on to their fees, for unions powerful enough to make the employer stump up. |
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In Morningside, by comparison, there are a blithe number of 80-year-olds for whom the next decade promises a rich pageant of Saga tours and constant cruises. |
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In another basement space the demented, clacking linotype machines stamped out our stories in hot metal while their grey-faced operators somehow stayed noisily blithe. |
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A stream of politicos and journos appear in cameos, playing themselves, and the sausage-making details are dead on — Alter's handiwork — as are the characters' blithe hypocrisy, blinding vanity, and swaggering soullessness. |
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Its wings were closed and the inferior ones were rubbing against each other in a curious, circular motion — possibly producing some small, blithe crepitation a human ear could not catch. |
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The motif recalls images of fetchingly louche youths in the light-in-darkness style of Caravaggio, which was then influential, but with a blithe speediness that is utterly remote from the Italian's frozen radiance. |
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Her idolization made sense in one so young, but to learn at the beginning of the book that a 26-year-old Jean Louise is still sheltered in this way feels too blithe and naive. |
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It is executed, furthermore, with a blithe unselfconsciousness, as if she were a happy little animal, or perhaps a harmless lunatic, going about her business. |
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Dylan had slipped a gear in staring perplexedly at the blond woman, lost a moment in dreaming, and in that moment Robert Woolfolk had shunted away, out of the blithe park that seemed intended to contain anything but him. |
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Similarly, the Coens, for all their blithe insincerity, can't help but acknowledge the strange archaic power of the culture they have made a career of travestying. |
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The cause of Travers's long-concealed distress, and its blithe effect on her fiction and on Disney's eventual film, are clipped together as crisply as a hook and eye. |
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It would be reckless in the extreme to break up the existing basis of European defence in the blithe assumption that our hopes for peace and prosperity in Europe will be necessarily and immediately realised. |
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So it is no good for blithe spirits in Berlin to whistle that other U2 hit With or without you', or for people in Paris to push Ireland into voting again. |
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Did the blithe contempt for historical accuracy tweak your bustle? |
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I started in Germany, where a team of ignored inventors, in a blithe attempt to make a few thousand bucks from a struggling business venture, had accidentally crippled a global industry. |
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The older I grow, the more blithe idiocy seems the route to sanity. |
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I've come to the end of my menstruating life without realising that, and I haven't realised that because there is nothing blithe or casual in how we talk about periods. |
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There is a striking disconnection in Athens between the blithe lack of concern that the government evinces, and which it has successfully communicated to much of the public, and the objective seriousness of Greece's plight. |
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She had a blithe disregard of cultures outside the United States. |
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Blithe references are made to jet setting from one US city to the next, and accessing a stash of lucre in a secret Swiss bank account. |
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