Word: unconcerns
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...theirs as a mosquito bite to a wasp's sting. Offered the chance to sponsor Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, he muffed it so badly that years later an embittered Johnson rebuffed him with a classic retort: "Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and. when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
...iron tops of their boots clicking rhythmically against the sidewalk, pass by. They keep their gaze straight ahead, and their faces deadpanned. Occasionally, some 19 year-old in the platoon sneaks a glance at the customers in a sidewalk cafe to catch their reaction. Most of the patrons feign unconcern...
When the Tongays arrived at London Airport last week, the whole family was placed under "technical arrest." While their parents argued with representatives of the Home Office, Bubba and Kathy raced in wild unconcern up & down the corridors of the immigration building. When the officials told them to go home forthwith, Bubba menacingly waved a toy six-shooter under their official noses. Next day the officials relented slightly, said it was all right for the Tongays to stay in England for one month. But any swimming the kids did, they warned, must be strictly for fun-not cash...
With a healthy, partially-exposed bust on the cover, some she-was-torn-between-love-and-duty ads, and a blithe unconcern for facts, "Eleanor of Aquitaine" could have led the best seller lists. As it is, Amy Kelly has written not a historical novel but a scrupulously documented history of the twelfth century. "Eleanor of Aquitaine" is a sober account of a game girl...
...first act, stimulating in the second, and ingratiating in the third. The eighty-year old actor, portraying a somewhat senile carl who is concerned mainly with shooting marauding rabbits, quietly dominates the action. His bumbling is perfected, the slope of his back is eloquent, and his sage unconcern with mundane matters cannot become tiresome. Aside from his unfortunate tendency to esh his esses, Matthews distributes his lines with the precision of a younger...