Sentence examples for nonchalance from from inspiring English sources

It is this nonchalance from the NYPD as well as authorities with powers of oversight, say Hassan and his lawyer, Glenn Katon from the California-based body Muslim Advocates, which made filing a lawsuit unavoidable.

To save $75,000 a year in operating costs, the Department of Transportation turned off the lights on the Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queensboro and Williamsburg Bridges more than four months ago, eliciting nonchalance from some New Yorkers and displeasure from others, most notably from Brooklyn's borough president, Marty Markowitz.

When a young lady from Basildon or Romford announces, "I'm getting them done," she is greeted with reactions ranging from nonchalance to congratulations.

An actor may abruptly shift from nonchalance to hilarity to terror and perform jerky, repetitive motions with his or her body.

Omar Bajwa, the Muslim chaplain at Yale University, whose Muslim Students Associationn was spied on by NYPD, says the department's nonchalance to questions from the community is "incredibly arrogant".

Song after song uses the slow-burn delivery, working gradually from nonchalance to sputtering rage, that he perfected on "The Marshall Mathers LP"; now it has become a shtick.

Admittedly, it took some time for me to start feeling agitated and anxious, to shift from nonchalance to engagement.

The mental nonchalance may come from there.

Photographs of children, common in every era, "reveal a perhaps unaccustomed level of nonchalance that separates them from earlier family snapshots and potentially from those made more recently as well"; several show children in perilous situations and suggest "a remarkable, even disconcerting privileging of humor over safety".

I went through odd variances in thought -- from total nonchalance to very much believing I was going to die.

He stood there in complete nonchalance, with a cigarette hanging from his mouth, shooting at people and looking me straight in the eye".