The same sense of benevolence and relaxed blitheness also touched Californian pop-rockers Maroon 5, as they once dished out free concert tickets to guests.
But dispensing with the boring parts of the process arguably suggests a certain blitheness or unthinking overconfidence on Mr Perry's part.
It was a film that began in anecdotal blitheness, talking to ancient cabbies and apprentice ones about the trade, and the merciless discipline needed to acquiring the Knowledge.
This is pitiful stuff, and, like the violence, it eats away at the blitheness for which "Kingsman" strives, leaving an aftertaste of desperation that the Connery of "Goldfinger," say, would not have dreamed of bequeathing.
This unchained blitheness is not just modern, it is preëmptively modern.
The concept has the blitheness of a vision and the ingenuity of a gimmick.
He also had steady nerves, and a major endowment of youthful blitheness.
Pierre does magic tricks, and Lelouch, following suit, shuffles his plotlines like marked cards, but his blitheness has a habit of turning slack, and too many scenes outstay their welcome, as if he had decided to toy with the rules of crime fiction without deigning to show that he could, if pressed, obey them.
Baumbach found it painful to read reviews that noted only the parents' flaws: the narcissism of the father, the blitheness of the mother.
Have a glass of Prosecco with a friend, displaying blitheness and a tendency, when food has been dropped on the floor, to plop it back onto your plate with a soulful, sensuous expression.
The bodies are beneath the rubble, the last-minute cell-phone calls — remarkably calm and loving, many of them — are still being reported, the sound of an airplane overhead still bears an unfamiliar menace, the thought of boarding an airplane with our old blasé blitheness keeps receding into the past.
