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  • For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

    Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books
  • She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.

    Fall   Clothes   Bed  
  • I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at all costs, as if it were a rough and dangerous reef, and (to use perhaps a novel word for it) to practise in all things a certain nonchalance [sprezzatura] which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless.

    Cost   Use   Nonchalance  
  • I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

    Ogden Nash (1931). “Hard lines”
  • Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

    Air   Nonchalance   Earth  
  • The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

    Nature   Air   Progress  
    Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.137
  • Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

  • Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.

    Art   Attitude   Effort  
  • There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

  • It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.

  • The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

    Attitude   Boys   Healthy  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.31
  • The style of studied nonchalance is the psychological triumph of grace over order.

    Order   Grace   Style  
    "True Style: The History and Principles of Classic Menswear". Book by G. Bruce Boyer, September 08, 2015.
  • O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face! To mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!

    Death   Struggle   Gun  
    Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.51, Haskell House Pub Limited
  • Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

    Design   Effort   Done  
    Baldassare Castiglione (2012). “The Book of the Courtier”, p.35, Courier Corporation
  • I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect. You can meet somebody in one of my jackets and it can all look a bit wrong, but also human and beautiful. Cutting nonchalance into a garment is difficult, because you can't just make an oversized or an asymmetric garment - it will look ugly. Making it look natural is delicate work. If it's too obvious, then it looks fake. Balancing the garment is a painstaking task, because you have to keep in mind how the clothes move.

  • Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.

    Julia Glass (2006). “The Whole World Over: A Novel”, Pantheon
  • But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.

    Boys   People   Rejection  
    John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”
  • We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

    Hands   Mind   Half  
    William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
  • Collections are certainly abundant online. It's complicated, because it's not like these people didn't want computers, although there was some nonchalance about it. I would sometimes ask the people I interviewed if they wished they had a computer, and in a lot of cases, it was like they couldn't process the question. You don't know what you don't have, I guess.

    "The Rumpus Interview With Miranda July". Interview with Zack Ruskin, therumpus.net. April 18, 2012.
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