(1) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(2) All I wanted to know was that this was not a hereditary disease – partly, I suppose, because I was so young and carefree and optimistic.
(3) It's hard to think of a musician who better represents the " gringo " vision of carefree, swinging 1960s Rio than Jorge Ben Jor, who back then wrote a slew of jazzy, swinging sambas and bossas, many of which are now considered Brazilian standards.
(4) We shouldn’t beat ourselves up about one-night stands or walks of shame.” The idea of your 20s as a carefree period before a woman starts her “real” life of monogamy and child-bearing is not a new one: see the end of John Cleland’s Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure , published in 1748, where 300 pages of masturbation, orgies and lesbianism are followed by a “tail-piece of morality”, and protagonist Fanny Hill explains that she is much happier now she’s put all that filthy shagging behind her.
(5) Since the extravert is the more sociable, excitement-seeking, carefree individual, while the introvert is more retiring, aloof and introspective, it would be worthwhile in future research to determine whether the dominance, vs. submissive or the high vs. low status dimension is the essential correlate of these spatial differences.
(6) One way or another the hosts were under a great deal of pressure, playing at home, staging a tournament under a security alert, attempting to live up to their status among the favourites, while their opponents could afford to be relatively carefree.
(7) Inside the houses lived middle-class perfection: a carefree existence, overwhelmingly white – Beulah was an African-American maid.
(8) Don't know about you, but I hate the carefree for that.
(9) There were silly, big-salary choices, to be sure, and the press was full of merry stories about O'Toole's wildness, his drinking and his carefree attitude.
(10) Frantzesco Kangaris for The Guardian So we began clicking and snapping, to see where our thinking hands would take us, as the mood shifted from carefree play to competitive panic, with the thought that someone else might take all the corner pieces you needed before you’d completed your Mayan ziggurat of doom.
(11) I didn’t respond to the call to be a priest to have a carefree life, an easy life.
(12) They’re entitled to a carefree youth, I always thought, and I didn’t want to be spreading bitterness and hate.
(13) "I said to George that I wanted to go back to the way it was, in the sense that ours was much more carefree and lighthearted and humorous – in my opinion, anyway," said Hamill.
(14) He has tried very hard to look like this group that he really idolises – young, attractive, social, carefree."
(15) The PIL was shown to be a reliable and valid instrument and correlated significantly and positively with measures of the self-concept, self-esteem, internal locus of control, and two EPI scales: Plans and Organizes Things and Carefree.
(16) There in high-concept miniature are all the dilemmas of virtually every freakout comedy: married thirtysomething or carefree flirtysomething?
(17) My favourite summer memory is not from childhood, but from arguably an even happier, more carefree time – more than a decade ago, when I was a teenager.
(18) Warner went on to make a scintillating, carefree 112, which is 99 more runs than he would have made had Matt Prior not missed stumping him off Graeme Swann when 13.
(19) These new communities were meant to recreate the feel, if not the scale, of an earlier form of the American myth – the small town – where everyone is a good neighbour and lives an innocent, carefree life.
(20) The only question is, how will this couple fit in all those holidays with all the carefree fun they're having?
Nonchalant
Definition:
(a.) Indifferent; careless; cool.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
(2) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
(3) So it is only a fool, like me, who would walk nonchalantly around the headland during a high wind.
(4) In interviews during the Star Wars years, Fisher affected nonchalance about that break-up.
(5) Part of their appeal was their apparent nonchalance, which tended to be mistaken for cool but was really, she says, just gauche bemusement.
(6) Early in the second half, Rivera, with a splendid burst of individualism, flicked the ball over his head to beat one man, accelerated past two more, and sent a superb shot which the little goalkeeper almost nonchalantly fisted over the top.
(7) The concert has been long prepared, Josh and his friend Ahmed from the perilous estates nearby laying tracks to "Jessie Wright" and another song for Agnes – "a tribute to a girl got shot in Hoxton", Josh says, with apparent nonchalance, but a stab of sorrowful anger in his eye.
(8) And the streets of Athens looked like Glastonbury – minus the mud; plus the teargas … Standing in London's Greek heartland, I feel a curious detachment, a curious out-of-body nonchalance that people also describe when they're remembering a car crash.
(9) When I ask if his public attacks on Blatter and Fifa might have been rashly intemperate, his tone is nonchalantly defiant.
(10) She was characterised by her very specific sense of failure, which was rueful but nonchalant at the same time: Pearson's iconic image had Kate Reddy smashing up shop-bought mince pies to make them look as though she'd made them herself.
(11) As Glastonbury virgins, they treated the world's biggest festival with the same nonchalant naivety with which they'd conducted their entire career, and with the added issues of an enormous crowd and 2007's ultra-sensitive perimeter sound limiters, it made for a distant and underwhelming experience.
(12) It hardly needs saying how rare this is in an industry where interviewees, generally, come wobbling at you like carnival floats, the girls with a small army of wardrobe support staff and the boys trembling from the effort of looking nonchalant in their duds.
(13) She stayed with my eldest daughter until I had moved house, and is now back here doing her thing, all emerald eyes and feline nonchalance.
(14) Creditably, McLeod retained sufficient poise to nonchalantly extend his right foot and dink the ball over the advancing Mannone.
(15) Given how perfect Ford’s nonchalant swagger works for the character, it seems criminal that there was ever any other option.
(16) I climbed too fast for vertigo to strike, scissored my legs over the railings, dropped on to concrete, rolled, picked myself up, then endeavoured to walk across the neatly trimmed lawn with a nonchalant air.
(17) This bullish assurance is bookended by Okoye's studied nonchalance.
(18) For extra kudos, hold court with the argument that the avant-bland looks on the catwalk are the natural extension of how Phoebe Philo, current queen of catwalk cool, has made the tradition of giving artistic and retro references to a collection look old hat by her habit of shrugging nonchalantly and insisting the clothes she designs are just, y'know, stuff she wants to wear.
(19) Of course it’s nice to be up 1-0 and not 0-1, but we didn’t play that well and we’re going to have to do it much, much better on Sunday … they are more athletic than us and stronger than us.” Recovered from an ankle injury, Spurs guard Tony Parker contributed 19 points and reacted to questions about the heat with nonchalance.
(20) Yet no matter how many people are bellowing at him, Lansley perpetually wears the nonchalant expression of a man killing time by humming cheerfully in a lift.