1 Wolzogen, nonchalantly stretching his legs, approached Kutuzov with a half-contemptuous smile on his lips, scarcely touching the peak of his cap.
2 Never at any time, even in most intimate moments, had he been other than nonchalant.
3 The philosophical tall soldier measured a sandwich of cracker and pork and swallowed it in a nonchalant manner.
4 Questions and answers followed in a nonchalant manner that made Dantes indignant, for he felt that all the world should have for the poor abbe a love and respect equal to his own.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 19. The Third Attack. 5 He sat opposite to me, and lit a cigarette in his old, nonchalant manner.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 6 Scarlett turned away from Mammy with studied nonchalance, thankful that her face had been unnoticed in Mammy's preoccupation with the matter of the shawl.
7 At first it had annoyed her and she had tried to break down that nonchalance but soon she had come to accept it as a very convenient thing.
8 She spoke with amazing nonchalance.
9 There had been nonchalance in his tone, showing her that he felt no absolute grief at a consummation which to her was a positive horror.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 10 His aristocratic nature was revolted by Bazarov's absolute nonchalance.
11 His face was positively transformed when he talked to her; it took a bright, almost kind expression, and his habitual nonchalance was replaced by a sort of jesting attentiveness.
12 A certain superciliousness of look, coolness of manner, nonchalance of tone, express fully their sentiments on the point, without committing them by any positive rudeness in word or deed.