Yet even before the truce extension was formally rejected, there were signs that the Taliban's easygoing holiday mood was about to end.
Easygoing, with a default mood set at "chillin'," as one schoolmate, Suzannah Charles, put it.
The story, in which resilience is rewarded, and meanness is banished, is comforting without feeling unduly sentimental, thanks to its mood of easygoing, tolerant honesty.
The mood is easygoing, and the fenek moqli — in local parlance — is an inspiring concoction of plump rabbit nuggets rendered moist by a thick, elegant wine reduction, and velvety mashed potatoes.
The mood was very easygoing.
"Big Inner," his first album under his own name on his own label, Spacebomb, is a whole different thing, a dramatic pop-gospel record that hits extremes of the mood spectrum: very easygoing and very obsessive.
The first thing that users will notice when all that categorizing is done is the app's handsome minimalist design and green 25 circular splotches, each of them representing different moods and emotions — think "easygoing," "yearning," "brooding," "fiery," and "empowering".
The change made me notice how, up till then, I'd never known him to be in any mood other than happy and easygoing.
The emeritus anchor didn't try to imitate or compete with Mr. Russert, and he kept the mood at a sober but easygoing tempo.
