"So, what are we going to do today?" I asked nonchalantly.
"What are you up to?" he asked nonchalantly, hugely relieved to see her. "You can't believe how nervous people get when you walk into their place of business carrying one of these".
"What, this?" I asked nonchalantly as I looked down at my outfit and then placed my hands on my hips as if I were posing on the red carpet.
I can't remember for the life of me what was in it (I might ask for a future column), but I remember the chutzpah with which he paraded a tray of them into the room, before asking nonchalantly: "Would anyone like a timmy noggy?" I also remember the gasps of admiration and the musical oooooohs this provoked.
One embassy employee said she was taking her children to see the film "Spider-Man 2" tonight, and asked nonchalantly, "Does that tell you how worried I am?" But a sailor sitting with his wife in a local Chili's restaurant had a different view of the warnings.
Just as I was ready to smile and comment on the sweet smell of barbeque, the little girl walking alongside Father Pfleger glances at the balloons and asks nonchalantly, "Who died today, Father?" Click here to learn how you can help bring summer back to the South and West sides of Chicago.
When Orville admits he has been watching the deprived boys, the schoolmaster asks nonchalantly, "Why don't you come down and help me with them sometimes?" Orville sputters, "They'd think it was queer," but the older man shrugs and answers, "They'd think all those things if you put them into their heads.
I ask him, nonchalantly, if he knows where to head for fashion week.
I was once asked to nonchalantly read a book, be startled by a ghost (played by a waste paper basket) then appear reassured by the fact that it was only the ghost of a cartoon builder reminding me to do my DIY.
It's jarring to hear a White House reporter nonchalantly ask a question using "globalist".
