It wasn't until late in the after-party, at the W Hotel, where the bartenders served a vodka-basil cocktail called the Nasty Woman and party guests walked blithely by the phone bank where they could drunk-dial their legislators, that my sense of release faded.
In his withering satire of the literary world, "Erasure," Percival Everett, who has served on an N.B.A. panel himself, includes a scene in which an awards judge blithely announces, "I'd like to see Rita Totten's 'Over My Body' on the shortlist... because Rita is a good friend of mine and because she got such a scathing review in The New York Times".
In the program, an entourage of forensic experts, politicians and reporters blithely rifled through the farm buildings next to Mr. Provenzano's hiding place, serving up his life on the run as television fodder.
He also blithely tosses out to Walter a query tweaked from "Paradise Lost," asking whether he'd rather "serve in Heaven or reign in Hell".
People blithely ignore fees as long as their investments are making money, says Russ Alan Prince, whose Prince & Associates market research firm serves the private wealth industry.
During ABC's "Good Morning America," CNN's "New Day," and MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Trump blithely defended, via telephone, his proposed travel ban on Muslims, which, according to one of his staff members, would even apply to members of the U.S. armed forces serving overseas.
He responds blithely that he will do so, eventually.
Radford and Wayne do it so blithely the sting hits you on the rebound.
"I don't want to count it," Wellington said blithely.
"MSG," Tu said, blithely.
