"Insouciance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of curiosity.] Incuriosity — N. incuriosity, incuriousness &c adj.; insouciance &c 866; indifference, lack of interest, disinterest. boredom, ennui (weariness) 841; satiety &c 639; foreknowledge (foresight) 510; V. be incurious &c adj.; have no curiosity &c 455; take no interest in &c 823; mind one's own business. Adj. incurious, uninquisitive, indifferent; impassive ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... never seen any one at all like Terriss, and my father said the same. The only actor of my father's day, he used to tell me, who had a touch of the same insouciance and lawlessness was Leigh Murray, a famous ...
— The Story of My Life - Recollections and Reflections • Ellen Terry
... business and the excitement of responsibility are indispensable to me, and I believe that I am never happier than when I have more to think of and to do than I can manage in a given period'. Idleness and insouciance had few temptations for them, cynicism was abhorrent to them. Even Thackeray was perpetually 'caught out' when he assumed the cynic's pose. Charlotte Bronte, most loyal of his admirers and critics, ...
— Victorian Worthies - Sixteen Biographies • George Henry Blore
... her as he leaned gracefully on the foot of the bed, and that she admired him. He did not know, or rather he absolutely did not realize, that she was acquainted with aught against his good fame. He forgot his sins with the insouciance of an animal. ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... insouciance gaining with his discomposure, her eyes widening and then a dolly kind of glassiness seeming to set in. "You ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various
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