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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.

Relaxed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Relax

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
  • (2) Arteries treated with atrial natriuretic peptide showed no alterations in relaxation or cGMP content after incubation with pertussis toxin.
  • (3) For dental procedures requiring tracheal intubation, one could perhaps use non-depolarizing muscle relaxants, like pancuronium, with reversal at the end of the procedure.
  • (4) In in vitro preparations GABA (10(-7) - 10(-3) M) elicited a dose-dependent relaxation; a decrease in the spontaneous contractions was sometimes observed.
  • (5) Anaesthesia was achieved by a mixture of oxygen, nitrous oxide and fluothane without use of muscle relaxants.
  • (6) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
  • (7) Endothelium-dependent relaxations to acetylcholine and endothelium-independent relaxations to nitric oxide were observed in rings from both strains during contraction with endothelin.
  • (8) Relaxation situations are marked by relaxation, usually after a meal.
  • (9) The rabbits were either breathing spontaneously or were ventilated by a phrenic nerve-controlled servorespirator without the use of muscle relaxants.
  • (10) For each RG patient, two sex, age, and initial diastolic blood pressure (DBP) matched controls were found, obtaining thus a control group (CG) consisting of 70 hypertensive patients who were not participating in any relaxation program.
  • (11) Under the condition in which ryanodine (10-100 microM) treatment was found to cause the SR to be nonfunctional, pinacidil relaxation DRC remained unaltered, suggesting a lack of a stimulatory effect of pinacidil on SR Ca++ accumulation.
  • (12) which suggest that ~60-90% of the cross-bridges attached in rigor are attached in relaxed fibers at an ionic strength of 20 mM and ~2-10% of this number of cross-bridges are attached in a relaxed fiber at an ionic strength of 170 mM.
  • (13) Trimazosin at the dose used and under the conditions of study did not reverse the peripheral pressor effect of angiotensin II or B-HT920 but at higher concentrations, unlike prazosin, it relaxed the K+ contracted thoracic aorta.
  • (14) The relaxations in response to a nonreceptor-mediated endothelium-dependent vasodilator, A23187, and an endothelium-independent vasodilator, sodium nitroprusside, were not different between normal and diabetic aortas.
  • (15) Nitric oxide (NO) is a major component of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) the synthesis of which from L-arginine can be inhibited by NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA).
  • (16) Binding to HSA occurs primarily with the imidazolidine and thiazolidine groups of levamisole as it has been demonstrated by selective changes in the relaxation times and the chemical shifts of the protons attached to the carbon atoms.
  • (17) We conclude that gastric adaptive relaxation remains abnormal in patients with postvagotomy diarrhoea but not in those who are asymptomatic or who have other symptoms.
  • (18) Nitric oxide (NO) induced tetrodotoxin-resistant NANC relaxation, similar to that induced by electrical stimulation or acetylcholine (ACh).
  • (19) Treatment of bacterial cells with inhibitors of gyrase at high concentration leads to relaxation of DNA supercoils, presumably through interference with the supercoiling activity of gyrase.
  • (20) The kinetics of extracellular neutral proteinase synthesis by an isogenic stringent (IS58) and a relaxed (IS56) strain of B. subtilis were compared.