What is "nonchalance"

Usage examples of "nonchalance".

Trying to feign nonchalance, Park lifted a brow as he stripped off his pants and underwear and stepped, naked, into the tub of steaming water.

A picture of deliberate nonchalance in direct contrast to the dark glow in his eyes.

Claire felt a wave of raw strength flow over her fingers and knew his attempt at nonchalance was merely a facade for a much stronger emotion.

She tossed it off with nonchalance, but there was hurt beneath her bravado.

Lucky scaled the chapel rules onto his desk, with a nonchalance just shy of rudeness.

All the while, Sark was carrying that precious box of his with a nonchalance that was maddening to anyone informed as to its contents.

LSD afterglow conferred, some milky corona, like almost a halo of approved grace, made all the milkier by the faultless nonchalance of a Moms who made it clear that his value was not contingent on winning first or even second prize, ever.

Cat hurried to the staircase and paused long enough to hook her fingers through the bootstraps and adopt a confident stance, then started down the stairs, swinging her boots with forced nonchalance.

Then Ann moved to the hobbyhorses while Richard rose, brushing his hands against his jeans with a forced nonchalance.

She slipped her right foot out of her shoe and then, with exquisite nonchalance, tucked her leg way up behind her against the wall so that it disappeared, storklike, behind the shroud of her trenchcoat.

With a horrible nonchalance, as a woman might prepare to remove a veil, it raised its hands to unwind the cerecloth from its face.

It should have connoted nonchalance, but that wasn't what came through to Poppy.

He asked the question with a studied nonchalance, but Caralie suspected her answer was extremely important to him, especially if she managed to win custody of his daughter.

Not infrequently, while the editorial page is mourning the prevalence of homicide, the front columns are bristling with sensational accounts of the home-coming of the injured husband, the heartbreaking confession of the weak and erring wife, and the sneering nonchalance of the seducer, until a public sentiment is created which, if it outwardly deprecates the invocation of the unwritten law, secretly avows that it would have done the same thing in the prisoner's place.

The idea of a Bouncing Betty anti-personnel mine exploding at head height was enough to dispel any nonchalance in the troops.