Can we forgive a memoir — if not its author — for its blitheness?
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She does so with a blitheness that often makes more earnest intentions hard to discern.
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It required cynicism and compromise, a blitheness about constitutional niceties and a cult of personality.
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But this venture does not have the effect he intended, and only generates more criticism of the family's profligacy and blitheness.
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And the ensemble here, which doubles as its own band, channels that spirit with an infectious blitheness that requires no footnotes.
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This performance of blitheness in the face of crisis was part of Ronald Reagan's nature, and a large part of his political appeal.
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" The blitheness with which Icahn and the Trump White House sidestepped the federal requirements is evidence, Eisen contends, that "this is a lawless Administration.
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But his use of Handel in "Aureole" displayed a quality of powerfully rhythmic melody and charming blitheness that were departures from the largely tough-grained ethos of modern dance.
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When the fêted actress Irina Arkadina (Annette Bening), on whose country estate the tale is set, admits, "I never think about the future," is it blitheness that compels her, or fear?
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Using neither narration nor an inch of original footage, Mr. Andersen skips across time and genre with a blitheness that suggests he's playing a game as much as laying out a schema.
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And I think in this day and age, there's too much blitheness with the term 'friend,' so I wanted to introduce a notion of solemnity to friendship and a sense of responsibility.
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"Playlist (EP)," in its blitheness, seems to go back farther, to Mr. Forsythe's beginnings with the Joffrey Ballet, recalling the split personality of that company in those days: half trashy pop, half ballet nerd.
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Anna Delvey, a European 20-something who managed to persuade New York socialites that she was a wealthy heiress, living out of Manhattan hotels on, reportedly, a series of forged documents and an air of general blitheness.
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Her tone reminds me of the recent blitheness of the Brexiteers, assuring they would "find a way" to make British independence work, despite the evidence to the contrary supplied by people who knew what they were talking about.
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Whiteness never appealed to me, but the confident, entitled recklessness it could provide did: I wanted to borrow some of the blitheness that my classmates enjoyed, pour it into a Solo cup and head out into the night, too.
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Such blitheness could easily seem heartless, or witless, but so winning is McConaughey that we come to accept this mirthful hippiedom, which allows him to greet all slings and arrows with an uncomplaining shrug, as a sensible course of action.
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But the opening scene, which finds two sets of married friends discussing the idea of polyamory over wine and cheese, has the chipper blitheness of those comedies of middle-class manners that were once the bread and butter of Broadway.
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Just this week, I overheard someone in Los Angeles, the Liberal Elite Capital of the World, use the phrase "sell down the river" with a blitheness that clearly demonstrated they had no idea of the terrible history and impact of the idiom.
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Like all of their albums, Lytle's songs carefully balance the beautiful with the bizarre, returning to the band's endearing signatures—the quirky electronic squibs, the chunky, fuzzed out power chords, the wistful piano riffs, and a plethora of hooks delivered by Lytle's unmistakably vulnerable falsetto—that thrive with a newfound blitheness that came from a pressure-free environment back home in Modesto.
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A leftist Oxford professor I know once told me it was the blitheness of the upper class's unrepentance that drives him up the wall.
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He returned to the stage without apparent lasting effects, and received notices for roles such as Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake and Lensky in John Cranko's Onegin, for which The Guardian praised his "captivating blitheness." He danced Beliaev alongside Alexandra Ansanelli's Natalia Petrovna in A Month in the Country in her final appearances before retirement, in New York and Havana, and gave his own last performance with the Royal Ballet in May 2010 as the Prince in Ashton's Cinderella.
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This novel received mixed reviews at the time of publication, as reviewers were not generally comfortable with the psychological aspects of the story. The plot had her "customary ingenuity" but lacked "blitheness" and was "much too like an attempt at psychological fiction". Sympathy is evoked for too many characters, "but the unravelling is sound and the story well told." Another said there is ingenuity and a good ending, but the plot "lacks a central focus" and it appears that the "serious socio-psychological approach doesn't suit" Christie's writing.
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Hardiman has generally voted in favor of the state and against inmates when he decided on cases that centered on capital punishment. Most of the cases that he has encountered involved disputes surrounding the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, a 1996 US law limiting an inmates' ability to seek habeas corpus relief from their conviction. He often affirms his belief that the Act places a high standard on inmates that they usually cannot reach. However, he joined the majority in favor of State of Delaware in Jackson III vs Danberg that was written by D. Michael Fisher, which warned Delaware that the decision “should in no way be construed as license for Delaware to stay the worrisome course it appears to have taken at times under its former protocol" and that "[t]he record before us reflects an occasional blitheness on Delaware's part that, while perhaps not unconstitutional, gives us great pause.
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