But as his remark indicates, though his work appears blithely and uninhibitedly dancey, it is constructed from an intricate assemblage of phrasing and detail.
Interestingly, Rosamund is largely free of the guilt-ridden anxieties of today's working mothers, blithely employing a lady – while she cracks on with her soaring academic career – to come round and mind the baby now and then.
Failing to distinguish these supposed practices — including the hoary sex-in-the-ice-cubes ploy — from the crucial question of whether they actually work, Mr. Warrick blithely implicates them in everything from eating disorders to the war on terror.
He might have added Mexico, had its drugs scandal erupted a little earlier; and, when he did not, the lower house of Congress, happy to do the president's work for him, blithely passed a resolution requiring that the Mexicans too be decertified unless they met sundry tests of anti-drug virtue written by itself.
Ms. Kaufman, an inveterate watcher of TV, had put the set on — the governor was talking — and perhaps because his message was intriguing (or because she was due at work) the niceties were blithely set aside.
And for the bombastic leader, we have the reformer manqué, blithely at work, planning and executing assassination, smiling all the while".
Daniel Altman, an American academic economist who once worked for The Economist, blithely ignores this advice in his new book.
Instead of embracing Marxism, moreover, many used the opportunity to translate and discuss Western works and ideas and blithely debated "reactionary" doctrines at the very moment Hungarian intellectuals were triggering a wave of anticommunist sentiment in Budapest.
Meanwhile, the blithely grating brush work of Jennifer Bartlett's "At the Lake" of 1979 (amplified by the combination of canvas and metal surfaces) contradicts the lavish staccato strokes of Joan Mitchell's "River" of 1989.
But with a confidence that few Cabinet ministers possess, the work and pensions secretary has blithely rebuffed all criticism of his much-loved universal credit.
