How to Use insouciance in a Sentence

insouciance

noun

• Her insouciance seems to at once irk and fascinate the rest of the cast.
  — Time, 21 Aug. 2023
• The bear, like the pick tucked in T’s afro, seemed a vaguely punk statement of insouciance.
  — Anne Beatty, The Atlantic, 30 May 2017
• There’s a kind of insouciance to the season that is catching.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 28 June 2018
• But the show’s appeal lies less in its plot than in its off-kilter insouciance.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
• The bass Georg Zeppenfeld portrays him with a warm tone and a touch of naïve insouciance.
  — New York Times, 26 July 2021
• Wright, who loves to mix and match genres with tongue-in-cheek insouciance, has never done.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2021
• Of course, there are moments in which a roughed-up bag doesn’t connote glam insouciance.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2021
• Still, Breyne’s method is more French couture than French insouciance.
  — Jessica Defin, Vogue, 14 July 2021
• Tatyana, a senior, plays with the insouciance of someone who’s done this a couple thousand times.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2021
• Luc O’Donnell is a mess, the son of two rock stars, who makes a fine art of blending Harry Styles’ level insouciance with profound self-loathing.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• Mixing the eclecticism of the former with the insouciance of the latter is working wonders so far.
  — Alice Newbold, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2022
• These moments unfold on screen, however, with a naive insouciance, as though Apu had been dreaming them up in the first place.
  — Hazlitt, 29 Mar. 2023
• This feels, to many European Jews, like the same blindness or insouciance that allowed millions of their forbears to be sent to Nazi camps to be gassed.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• If that cartoon caption strikes you as an Ariana Grande anachronism, that works as part of the film’s insouciance.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 July 2022
• But Heart of Stone is quite glossy and beautiful to look at, and though there’s not much that’s dynamic about her, Gadot at least has a charming insouciance.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 Aug. 2023
• Some of Hollywood’s youngest ingénues were embracing the breezy insouciance of a white shirt, too.
  — Vogue, 27 Mar. 2022
• Key elements of '70's jet set style: insouciance, and a headscarf.
  — Veronique Hyland, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Jan. 2011
• West’s album, in the longing circumspection of its ballads and the light insouciance of its up-numbers, fit that turn.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• But here, their empathetic teamwork lacks the bawdy insouciance of the Dolemite films and the Moore-Reed comedy albums.
  — Armond White, National Review, 8 Nov. 2019
• Most of these cars are gleaming, and lipstick-red, with the racy insouciance that’s so typical of Italian design.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2022
• The look has an inherent insouciance, a bohemian vibe that feels ideal for that first chill of fall—or early spring?
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 May 2014
• What has changed very little over the years is Ms. Roitfeld’s lightly mannered insouciance.
  — New York Times, 7 Sep. 2019
• The unclipped chinstrap of his off-kilter helmet only added to his air of renegade insouciance.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
• His insouciance soon crossed the line into arrogance and even contempt.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
• Throughout, Bergman Island has a kind of infectious insouciance about its own form.
  — Annie Geng, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2021
• Celeste Cahn gives the sprite Ariel an air of insouciance, while never losing sight of her enslavement by Prospero.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 12 July 2017
• To wit: the colorful stripes on Céline's classic luggage tote for the resort season, which has all the laidback insouciance of the Me Decade in a look that's completely right now.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Nov. 2014
• For the occasion, Gainsbourg, with her classic insouciance, wore a Canadian tuxedo with a brown belt cinched around her waist.
  — Liana Satenstei, Vogue, 9 July 2021
• The tinge of insouciance from Hawkins should not be mischaracterized as a lack of concern for Bell, whose impending surgery has not been scheduled.
  — Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2021
• Fire up the 2022 Hyundai Kona N and you're greeted with a similar level of auditory insouciance.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024