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"insouciant" Definitions
  1. not worrying or caring about anything
"insouciant" Antonyms
careworn anxious worried gloomy sad serious upset depressed morose melancholy solemn nervous troubled disconcerted unhappy dejected cheerless distressed heavy-hearted shakeable concerned interested afraid aghast antsy apprehensive bugged careful choked clutched disquieted disturbed fearful fidgety fretful frightened high-strung jittery ambitious excited animated energetic enterprising enthusiastic motivated spirited active caring diligent hard-working inspired lively vivacious attentive alert untired avid eager keen responsive involved passionate committed fierce dedicated strong vehement vigorous impassioned zealous passional earnest dead inactive inanimate lackadaisical languid languishing languorous leaden lifeless limp listless spiritless vapid dismal glum miserable strict rigid rigorous stringent controlled intolerant stern tough illiberal inflexible regimented tight fastidious particular punctilious specific firm fixed intransigent obstinate determined persistent resolute driven unwavering unyielding indefatigable indomitable perseverant persevering relentless steadfast sincere genuine honest real heartfelt true unaffected wholehearted candid unfeigned frank guileless cordial devout straightforward fervent unpretentious upfront excitable temperamental changeable fluctuating irregular jumpy spasmodic vacillating variable varying wavering considered planned premeditated premeditative prepared rehearsed intent responsible thoughtful calculated deliberate practised(UK) practiced(US) reasoned measured prudent circumspect disagreeable ill-natured ill-tempered unamiable ungenial ungracious unpleasant bad-tempered reserved constrained conventional discreet formal polite restrained cautious conservative obscure proper ambiguous bland composed cryptic diplomatic dubious indistinct conscientious dependable reliable mature sensible trustworthy practical rational astute grounded levelheaded discerning pragmatic sagacious upright clever perceptible thorough comprehensive detailed systematic exhaustive methodical thoroughgoing meticulous painstaking precise scrupulous complete intensive full sweeping efficient serious-minded sober unfrivolous calm steady level-headed

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There was the banner, as commanding and insouciant as ever.
Younger people are astonishingly insouciant about revanchist Russia and ascendant China.
He's insouciant about the deed but his teacher screeches her astonishment.
Think Chromeo with more live instruments and a seedier, insouciant slink.
Neither fully insouciant nor fully pragmatic, the tankini is swimwear in purgatory.
In this far corner of India, insouciant party-hopping is the rule.
But the space, color, and insouciant charm are more reminiscent of Mary Heilmann.
China's current leader, Xi Jinping, is less insouciant as fly-swatter-in-chief.
He already sports an insouciant James Dean cool in mini aviators and denim.
Yes, they look suave and insouciant, but shouldn't they have to follow traffic signals?
Unsurprisingly, social media firms have continued to be insouciant to their social and moral responsibilities.
Where the Grimms' flatness of tone is harsh, Comyns's voice is insouciant and — yes — charming.
In the 1980s, he built a media profile as an insouciant, high-living apex predator.
It would be a peculiarly insouciant optimist who thought we should just wait and see.
Alan Rickman, as witty insouciant terrorist and "exceptional thief" Hans Gruber, serves as Willis' memorable foe.
But the government remained insouciant, convinced that Tory objections were racist and ignored the economic benefits.
Is she whip-smart and insouciant, the ideal gal to fall in love with a buffalo?
And Wood remains forever stylish and insouciant in the courtyard of the Museum of Modern Art.
Instead, the bartender plays an insouciant magician, conjuring a drink from a customer's suggestion of flavors.
It begins to read as an insouciant signature, while also adding another element of '60s sculpture (plastics).
None were more painful than her slow fade last year against Ostapenko, one of those insouciant youngsters.
And how long before the insouciant bushbuck realize that Gorongosa's predators are multiplying and headed their way?
It's full of romance in all directions, plenty of fantasy trope subversions, Brennan's typical insouciant wit. —AR
Reporter's Notebook It was a little shimmy of her shoulders — cheeky, insouciant — accompanied by a big, toothy grin.
They were insouciant men in their 30s who drove multimillion-dollar black Porsches and lived in penthouse apartments.
An insouciant Mr. Trump, 40-something, baby-faced, pre-blond-rinse, has one arm cocked, hand on hip.
There is one exception: a surprise solo "break" by a trombonist who tosses off an insouciant, swinging phrase.
These more natural and characteristically insouciant images for J.W. Anderson, though, are certainly some of our favorites to date.
One of the visions of himself as this insouciant guy who didn't care — it was a Lou Reed creation.
While today's art abounds in insouciant, apparently slapdash, clumsy, lazy and otherwise deskilled works, not all artists have deskilled themselves.
This insouciant relationship with the truth is just as central to Wolff's work as his commitment to access and gossip.
The looks were insouciant but also classically glamorous, belying the notion that youthfulness should be synonymous with slouchiness or sex.
Her singsong hooks are conduits to lyrics of shrewd self-awareness and insouciant honesty, and her distorted guitars have palpable strength.
And when the ordeal, in which he lost 23 minutes 45 seconds to Van Avermaet, finally ended, Sagan was similarly insouciant.
After all, Hurston famously expressed troubling political views, including her insouciant Red-baiting and her critique of the 1954 Brown v.
Stefan Vinke is making his Met debut in the titular heldentenor role, armed with insouciant high notes and a bright smile.
The sculpture is an homage to the Olympic gold medalist Florence Griffith Joyner, an insouciant monument to black power and beauty.
People confuse you with many of the characters you seem to play, often young, insouciant single women in the big city.
Yet Germany remains strong in its economy and forecasts are bullish for this year, its businesses apparently insouciant about the politicians' dilemmas.
First, Moon, his advisers and much of his support base remain insouciant about a U.S. drawdown despite what is said in public.
The teenager's comment that flying a Harrier Jet to school 'sure beats the bus' evinces an improbably insouciant attitude toward the relative
And while I expected to meet people electrified by political change, I mainly encountered cautious optimism mixed with insouciant shrugs toward the politicians.
All lo-fi, surf-rock grooves (wassup reverb!), Nielsen's insouciant vocal delivered (possibly) from a prostrate position on a couch, beer in hand.
It is rather the insouciant ease with which her images navigate between high and low, making that spirituality widely available, if not irresistible.
He was apparently insouciant about his critical role for over 40 years in creating the conditions that brought the world to this point.
The congressional Republicans have shown no disposition to work with the president, who has complicated his position by his insouciant belligerency at times.
That's kind of in the judge's job description — but, okay, let's create another layer of bureaucracy instead of holding judges accountable for insouciant oversight.
I did like the soft waves and insouciant texture it created, and it was easy enough to wash out at the end of the day.
The reactions ranged from blunt disgust to insouciant tips on how to save the bacteria-laden veggie from otherwise failing a food safety and sanitary inspection.
Some are scared; some seem almost irritated; some instruct their spouses to say they cannot come to the phone; some affect an air of insouciant indifference.
If you dare take your eyes off the road, a glance overhead will find a representation of this same tangled, heedless, even insouciant approach to life.
The M3 has a tendency to kick out its ass end even when you didn't ask it to, which might seem insouciant but can be plain scary.
I find that the work is laid out in a scheme that is aggressively insouciant, like spare bottles that were gathered together to be redeemed for cash.
He had purged the judiciary; jailed insouciant senior military officers three years ago and installed seemingly compliant successors; and cracked down on the opposition and the news media.
But still, her relative safety renders her tone flippant, insouciant: However implicitly, she understands that her desirability, potent though it may be, benefits from the protection of social favor.
Nilsson's insouciant invented views of landscapes populated by people of different sizes, often interacting in ways that cannot quite be deciphered, are unlike anything else being done in art.
At other times, especially after Philip moves to New York City and lets the insouciant Harry off the leash, the characters we meet through him are rendered more satirically.
The film "Wonder Woman" has grabbed audiences (and box-office receipts) around the world with its often insouciant story of a female superhero battling on the side of good.
A commanding presence in fashion from the moment he presented his first collection in Paris at the age of 24, Givenchy became synonymous with elegance and an insouciant glamor.
An American painter and printmaker, Mason (1904-1971) studied in New York with Arshile Gorky and went through geometric, then biomorphic phases, which she combines in this insouciant piece.
That day in Brooklyn, Jackson wore glasses, a plaid shirt open to just below the clavicles and shoes with insouciant laces that looked ready to untie themselves at any moment.
No. 76 is squarely committed to the pursuit of happiness, if happiness can be said to involve a bargain-priced bottle of spiced rum carried with a studiously insouciant backhanded grip.
Schumer is not shy, but rather an introvert, she stresses in the ensuing product: an insouciant mélange of memoir and feminist treatise that commences with an open letter to her vagina.
Trump's insouciant attitude toward major foreign policy issues suggests that a Trump presidency would be marred by carelessness and detachment, imperiling America's ability to confront international challenges in a complex world.
Such decoration can lend a stately but staid appearance to whatever furniture it adorns, but the 30-year-old Portuguese designer Daniel Duarte has reimagined passementerie with a modern, insouciant edge.
On "Eus Keus", whose title is a traditional Cornish saying which, with typical insouciant dryness, asks whether or not there is cheese, she joyfully reels off a list of Cornish place names.
"With the bridal hustle and bustle, everything comes from an artistic point of view but with her it really was from this place that is so carefree and insouciant," Paige tells PEOPLE.
The reference points were the button-downs of the 1940s and '50s, when the Brooks Brothers shirt was firmly established as a crucial element of insouciant collegiate style, the more frayed the better.
The show takes an insouciant attitude toward the butterfly effect, the notion — central to most time-travel fantasies — that the slightest change made in the past will ripple forward and affect the present.
Ms. Rothe, in staging the action, carefully positions the men so that Mr. Ayala's melancholy Paul, the middle brother, is nearly always seen between Mr. Moreno's imposing Presley and Mr. Gutiérrez's insouciant Prince.
However arbitrary her views, I soon learned, the Frenchwoman in these books is always the same person: Parisian, insouciant, effortlessly chic, usually white, untouched by any hint of cultural strife or political upheaval.
It's surprising, given how much the look of the film — all '80s nostalgia and insouciant sensuality, with a dollop of athletic shorts — has infiltrated the broader fashion sensibility since its release last year.
The novel "becomes an oddly poignant contemplation of what it's like to live 'way past' your shelf life and make choices that don't quite match your insouciant appearance," our reviewer, Michael Upchurch, wrote.
This sorcerer emerges, more than ever, as the presiding intelligence of the reality set before us — playwright, director and star — who bends all to his will with an insouciant wave of the hand.
While Mr. Camarena can get the job done in "Barbiere" — as he did, with just a bit of apparent effort, on Monday — Juan Diego Flórez, for example, dispatches Almaviva with more insouciant flair.
He workswhite denim with insouciant dad bod aplomb while air guitaring all over the world—in the outback, near an crocodile, on the moon, balance atop the back of a flying eagle, natch.
This rod has been recreated by the artist and placed throughout the installation to good effect, recalling to mind the bâton that the insouciant French conceptual artist André Cadere ubiquitously utilized in the 63s.
Started in 1986, the quartet flew a flag of conviction in an insouciant era: First-generation indie rock was on the up, with bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth proposing abstention as rebellion.
His use is excessive even by the standards of the digital age, according to which "voicey" writers on the web reflexively opt for lazy vernacular as a way of branding themselves as insouciant badasses.
Alas, the insouciant Gallic charm will most likely remain as mysterious as it is cliché, but in recognition of Bastille Day on Friday, we have an excuse to renew our efforts to master it.
Here, Scorsese follows the lackadaisical approach of the Revue in his compilation to the film's detriment; it doesn't help that the earthy '70s film stock never quite fully captures the insouciant energy of its time.
"Pax" is not comparable tonally to "Charlotte's Web" — it has less irony and wit and a less insouciant protagonist — but Pennypacker does share White's resistance to sentimentality, offering in its place a pragmatic kind of awe.
" ZACHARY WOOLFE The gentle, caressing lightness of the beginning, like she's sharing the secret that will save your life, turns insouciant, and almost witty when she mentions "the birds and the bees right in His hand.
So our 20 bottles included some familiar names, some big brands, and some new to us, like Some Young Punks, an insouciant group of négociants who buy grapes and make wines with a pulp-fiction ethos.
It can be easy to play Manon as a ruthless femme fatale, for example, as she becomes the toast of Paris, and Ms. Oropesa was suddenly big-voiced, glamorously tossing off high notes with insouciant sprezzatura.
At times, watching them interact was like stepping into the art world equivalent of "The Cat in the Hat," as he asked one insouciant question after another and she (along with others) gently fended him off.
I've seen Alok and Jacob wade through crushes and ambiguous interactions, live-texted flirtatious lines to help them reel those crushes in, and coached them to project insouciant confidence so the cuties would come back for more.
Mary Heilmann's "Big Bill" (1987), a wide white band angling through a field of blue, gives abstraction an insouciant nonchalance, while the wavy green and red lines of Moira Dryer's "Portrait of a Fingerprint" are hypnotically oceanic.
It's no coincidence that by the time Monáe announced her pansexuality to the world in February, with the infectious, insouciant "That's Just the Way You Make Me Feel," she had tapped directly into the sound of her hero, Prince.
When Mr Pearce visited the region in 2006 drought had already lasted more than a decade, yet he was shocked to find local farmers insouciant about squandering water, using wasteful flood irrigation, for example, when the water was available.
We are therefore left with an act of Grand Strategic folly, that will take a Barbara Tuchman to untangle in due course, but in their insouciant arrogance to the effect on Ireland, the Brexiteers have shown their truest colours.
Robinsons go she is shy but ironic, seemingly insouciant but grimly trapped in a sterile marriage to Gordon Macleod, a nondescript British Empire type who is given all the most charmless attributes of both his generation and his race.
One pores over his Op-Eds in The New York Times savoring his insouciant bons mots, which encompass everything from India-Pakistan warmongering ("Schoolyard brawls have a more nuanced buildup") to yoga instructors ("Drill sergeants trapped in poets' bodies").
B. Wurtz Surrounding City Hall Park's quatrefoil fountain, an early Gilded Age confection abounding with gushing water jets and repurposed gaslights, are four insouciant "Kitchen Trees" by the sculptor B. Wurtz, which were commissioned by the Public Art Fund.
The insouciant West Canadian singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco performs with a youthful verve, even though many of his best songs — including several on his excellent third album, "This Old Dog," released in May — have to do with feeling over the hill.
Yet there is also something in this regulation that goes beyond defense against the worst possibilities, toward a discouragement of all the benign irregularities — the unruly felicities, creative improvisations, leisurely inefficiencies and insouciant eccentricities — that are the heart of urban life.
A young lyric soprano, Ms. Harteros was at that point concentrating on Mozart and the lighter Verdi; one of the things she sang in the final round in Cardiff was the famous "Sempre libera" from "La Traviata," with its insouciant coloratura.
Fonseca employs the magic of perspective and shifting angles to summon a Cubist portrait of a very sleepy, insouciant old man who witnessed some of the great political events of the 20th century, from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam.
His music could be jauntily optimistic, as if the cavalry were arriving over the hill, or stately and forceful — an infantry battalion headed into battle, perhaps — or even propulsively insouciant, as if secret agents, fast cars and pretty girls were at hand.
That's his insouciant croon ringing out on the chorus of Farruko's hit "Krippy Kush," from last August, and there he is again sounding like a personified smirk on "I Like It," one of the best songs from Cardi B's recent debut album.
POP & ROCK The insouciant West Canadian singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco performs with a youthful verve, even though many of his best songs — including several on his excellent third album, "This Old Dog," released in May — have to do with feeling over the hill.
In a different way, Florine Stettheimer's "Cathedrals of Wall Street" (1939) a few rooms away, with its insouciant image of the financial district, the capitalist heart of the nation, packed with preening politicians and soldiers, is the product of an artist painting critically.
What is certain, however, is that the insouciant economy of meat that exists right now, in which animals are slaughtered far from the public eye, and then handed out in neat brown bags to waiting drive-thru car windows, can not continue.
The video was a hit with Lil Nas X fans, but struck a false note with some observers who criticized the insouciant frivolity of the stunt at a time when Twitter is struggling to curb a flood of toxic content and misinformation on its platform.
But there's something about the design of the Apple butter stick in particular: the way the light hits the edge, the slightly uncanny hint of translucence, the insouciant "sext me like one of your French girls" angle of the slice resting on the end of the dish.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 1985, with a flamboyant, gelid eye and taunting provocative shrugs of jaded contempt for new-money denizen art collectors, Gary Indiana (né Hoisington) strode forth onto the art scene as an insouciant enfant terrible art critic for The Village Voice.
Yet for all her pursuits, it is Pappas's insouciant, cockeyed worldview, expressed via social media — her Twitter posts are part Tony Robbins motivational, part Tom Robbins surrealistic — and her lack of pro-athlete pretension that draw fans, primarily teenage girls who run cross-country, to her.
Glitter, simultaneously haphazard and affected, is best paired with an insouciant attitude, which explains why it follows us through childhood: sprinkled on finger paintings in art class; suspended in plastic bracelets and nail polish applied at slumber parties; embedded in tights, twinkling with good feeling and bravado.
If you didn't, Goya famously painted the bull, or toro, but he also famously painted "La MAJA Desnuda," a commissioned portrait of an insouciant naked lady that was hung in a private gallery (he also famously painted her in a pantsuit, same position, "La Maja Vestidia").
What feels more location-appropriate is the adjacent cocktail bar that Meilichzon fashioned as a boudoir: an intimate space with walls in pleated light pink velvet, deep red banquettes, a plaster fireplace and plenty of fuzzy floor poufs for insouciant lounging (and drinking) into the wee hours.
On Beauty Beauty in the '21982s was about creating your own unique look, says Inès de la Fressange, the French model and designer whose own rakishly cool short hair, arched brows and insouciant air inspired Karl Lagerfeld to make her his muse at Chanel in 268.
But even without that added visual incentive, his latest tour would be well worth seeing: 2 Chainz's most recent album, "Pretty Girls Like Trap Music," is teeming with examples of his gifts for unforgettable hooks and insouciant wit, and he's a consistently engaging performer in concert.
Despite the rebels' insouciant air, a witch hunt began against young people who themselves wanted to wear long hair, scraggly beards and the same guerrilla outfits that had captivated the nation — a nation that, from then on, was not supposed to look as subversive as its leader.
In case the arsenal of leather jackets, all-black-everything wardrobe, a body covered with an impressive collection of ink, and his general insouciant swagger didn't immediately give it away, Justin Theroux is a bit of a bad boy, or at least he plays the part very convincingly.
Compared to Sweetener, Thank U, Next at first seems slight, blithely tossed off in Grande's particular insouciant way, but pretty soon the hooks start to click — the arpeggiated rhythm guitar on "Bad Idea" or the theatrically symphonic build that closes "Imagine," — and invade her every sigh and melodic elongation.
At a new Thai restaurant tucked away on a quiet stretch of Carroll Gardens, the method of misdirection has the opposite effect, reeling in a certain breed of New Yorker for whom the interplay of an underexplored cuisine, a well-regarded chef, and a memorably insouciant name is irresistible.
Two months later, I saw his fall 2017 couture presentation, another paradox: Here were rustling swaths of silk whose formality was leavened by loose, almost louche necklines that gave the dresses an insouciant air; serious, sophisticated gowns in children's shades of lizard green, bubble-gum pink and crayon blue.
Given how much money the league makes, and how much power the league's most powerful people have, it makes sense that they would consider the status quo to be just fine, give or take pitching a righteous bitch here and there about the insouciant, unreliable help out there on the fields.
Just when "Our Young Man" seems about to drown in its own superficiality — a heady mix of name-dropping, dieting strategies and drug binges — it becomes an oddly poignant contemplation of what it's like to live "way past" your shelf life and make choices that don't quite match your insouciant appearance.
In a film that has been called an "anti-Bonnie & Clyde," our insouciant lead (played by Loden, who herself grew up in Appalachia) shows up late to divorce court, sleeps around for cash, and naps in an empty movie theatre — there, she discovers her meager funds have been stolen mid-snooze.
The confident, sexy collection she sent down the runway last fall — full of '70s citrus and earth tones, easy prairie dresses in micro floral prints, sharply tailored A-line miniskirts and denim, and insouciant, heavy-metal combat boots — revealed Ramsay-Levi's deep understanding (and personal mastery) of French cool-girl chic.
If you've ever wondered what became of the young Japanese actor who played the insouciant, too-cool-for-Elvis (he preferred Carl Perkins) rock-and-roll fan in Jim Jarmusch's 1989 "Mystery Train" — well, Masatoshi Nagase, now nearly 50, doesn't smirk even once in "Sweet Bean," a new film directed by Naomi Kawase.
But mostly there are deft, insouciant ink-and-pencil drawings and a few fine-grained lithographs, including "The Lindy Hop," whose sinuous dancing couple brings to mind the work of Archibald J. Motley Jr. Covarrubias's line could have the assured sparseness of Matisse, and he had a similar affinity for female beauty.
This Pretty Woman lightens the social commentary that helped make Garry Marshall's 1990 film so memorably self-aware in peddling its escapism; anchored by an insouciant lead performance from Samantha Barks (best known for playing Éponine onscreen in Les Misérables), it tends to abandon altogether the film's already ham-fisted portrayal of gritty LA street life.
CreditCreditAndy Haslam for The New York Times As a wine lover with an active imagination, I'd always pictured the French wine harvest as a cross between "Sideways" and "I Love Lucy," a sun-drenched bacchanal featuring boozy lunches en plein air, rosy-cheeked peasants crushing fruit with their bare feet, and a bit of insouciant grape picking.
The Chairman was so insouciant about nuclear weapons, dismissing them as teeth in the papier-mâché tiger, that as China took steps to join the nuclear cartel, the United States and the Soviet Union approached each other at various times in the 1960s about cooperating in a preemptive strike to strangle Red China's nuclear baby in the cradle.
When an insouciant car thief named Mahony receives an unexpected letter telling him more than he ever knew about how his life began — he was a foundling left on the steps of an orphanage — he leaves Dublin to go back to Mulderrig, the village in County Mayo where he was abandoned, and discover for himself whatever he can.
On the Verge 10 Photos View Slide Show ' The young New York designer Michael Halpern remembers the precise moment he realized he wanted to go into fashion: when he saw a black and white photograph from the late 1960s, of his mother staring into the middle distance in a dark jumpsuit, her eyebrows bleached, an expression of insouciant cool on her face.
But it wasn't just in name alone that he took the fashion house in a new direction, much like Yves in his day, Slimane made Saint Laurent the new it-brand for young celebs and musicians looking to channel that difficult to pin down, insouciant rock 'n' roll vibe, quickly establishing a signature aesthetic that can really be summed up in three of his staple pieces.
Just in case you thought her insouciant attitude in regards to temperature was a recent development, recall that this is the coat-less look Rihanna chose to wear to ring in the New Year in this very same city: To celebrate January first, the pop star opted for her skimpiest attire, donning a pink Fendi fur mini dress with no coat because who needs layers when you're swaddled in tiny pieces of mink and marabou?
Here we find Eugene von Bruenchenhein's copious photographs of his often topless and apparently game wife; the rather creepier ballerina-doll pictures made by Morton Bartlett, after devoting laborious attention to crafting the dolls themselves; the insouciant intensities of Greer Lankton, revolving around gender reassignment and the refashioning of icons, both cultural (Jackie O.) and subcultural (Candy Darling) through dolls and photographs; and selections from the inscrutable archive of Polaroids taken of actresses on television by the anonymous photographer known as Type 42.
The clothes in that collection were lovely for other reasons, too — there were sharp, cinch-waisted coats and slouchy, insouciant sweaters (a Van Noten specialty) and a skirt made of soft tiers of shirred and frayed silk that seemed to float in the air like milkweed fluff — but it was dominated by an abstraction, the suggestion that fashion might be not just about how a garment feels on the skin or how it intimates the figure beneath, but about how it tries to express and make sense of color: the natural world's most enduring, bewitching and elusive bestowment.

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