Sentence examples for seeming carelessness from inspiring English sources

Crispy blades of gobo (burdock root), flung with seeming carelessness on top, are essential in their gift of crunch.

To lose a second, Hazel Blears, on the following day may seem like carelessness.

("The art of losing isn't hard to master... ..) And Oscar Wilde's imperious Lady Bracknell offered her own censorious perspective on the idea of loss by observing that to lose both one's parents "seems like carelessness".

At this point, carelessness seemed contagious.

It was clear to writer that major-league baseball was no longer being played at its old rigorous and imperial best--at a level that seemed to eliminate carelessness and faulty execution and faulty thinking.

He, too, seemed abashed at his carelessness.

In Headlong, for instance, as Frayn's would-be art historian ruminates on the likelihood of a missing Brueghel turning up, out pops an allusion to Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Ernest: "In that case no fewer than seven of the series might have been lost, which by Lady Bracknell's standards might seem like quite egregious carelessness".

I really like postcoital get-to-know-you talk, with its combination of intimacy, honesty, and stakes-free carelessness that seems to lead to conversations that mostly sound pretty honest instead of fabricated, which would be just as easy.

These and similar mistakes can perhaps be attributed to carelessness, but others seem inexplicable.

What would seem to be bravado or carelessness or some combination may be a factor of the doctor's age.

Poetic as the description might be, it does seem to imply a certain carelessness of preparation, or at least free-spiritedness.