NEW ORLEANS — The mix of genuine nonchalance and real unease with which people here greet the long-distance threat of a hurricane is difficult for outsiders to understand.
The company's initial successes made the sweatshop-free model seem possible, and even desirable — American Apparel succeeded by marketing not just sex and sly nonchalance, but real political activism about immigration, labor, and social rights.
The company's initial successes made the sweatshop-free model seem possible, and even desirable American Apparel succeeded by marketing not just sex and sly nonchalance, but real political activism about immigration, labor, and social rights.
The poet's friend Nasjah Djamin notes that the characterization captured the real-life Anwar's nonchalance, impoliteness, and arrogance.
"Whatever" is as incendiary as it is nonchalant; the nonchalance is what makes it incendiary.
For example, if a man has just suffered a loss in his family, but refuses to acknowledge it with any real emotion, don't take his apparent nonchalance at face value and chalk it up to "men being men".
Serving nonchalance several different ways is Rihanna's real gift, more than singing or dancing or entertaining in any traditional sense.
With its studied nonchalance, "Loners" reaches neither the hilarity of an episode of "Friends" nor the ethnographic stickiness of "The Real World" on MTV.
The real stars of this exhibition are choice examples of Miró's later art, shown on easels or propped up with faux nonchalance as if they were still in his studio, freshly painted.
His nonchalance was understandable.
