The more we blithely remain addicted to oil, and not face up to all its negative geopolitical and environmental consequences, the more we invite sudden catastrophes like the gulf spill.
Perhaps more revealing, he blithely told her he had beaten his old girlfriend, a Russian who in his strict Madonna-Whore dichotomy belonged on the trampy side.
Eleven goals he kicked, his best return ever in a game, and was on course for one more before he blithely chipped a short pass to Trent Cotchin rather than shoot.
More usually, it blithely ignored photography or challenged its veracity, finding new ways of inventing and recording, the old familiar route that passes through all the isms with their competing claims on reality, meaning, truth etc.
What the hell am I afraid of?" Karson poured me more tequila and blithely suggested we pay a visit to El Negrito, a spiritual healer much praised by the local Mayans.
Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, delivered the same message as Mr Osborne, more softly.Nationalists promise, blithely, that everybody will start behaving nicely when Scotland votes for independence.
Allison Burnett's screenplay does a creditable job of filling out the characters (Charlotte's a blunt truth-teller and Will a sneaky and evasive liar), and depicting their love affair, which Will blithely sabotages more than once.
While the Bush administration ramped up both threats - blithely building "more useable" nukes, and vandalizing any attempt to control warming gases - Obama has pivoted.
What seems to govern the fate of Tom and his kin over the 40-some years the story blithely spans might more accurately be described as pure, out-of-the-blue coincidence.
