Most animals blithely ignore the dead bodies of other members of their pack or herd. |
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Throughout his reign, he blithely ruled as he thought right and did little to explain himself. |
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Indeed, the fiction of an Australia blithely indifferent to America is the single-most unrealistic aspect of the film. |
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Back in April 1997, it had been blithely gung-ho about financial deregulation. |
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He recounts all of this blithely, but the work was both dangerous and enterprising. |
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We may operate with economic infantilism, borrowing blithely, ignoring pension schemes and blowing half our annual earnings on rent. |
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People go to jail these days, and when they come out they blithely resume their place in society. |
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He fails to grasp the structural teleology of a composition, blithely ignoring any real legato. |
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He puts blinders on and sees nothing but the flaws, while blithely overlooking the soul of the message, and the innocence of the delivery. |
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He intermixes shots of neon-lit signs with glossy images of models blithely spraying themselves with perfume. |
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Borrowers, reveling in their lower monthly payments, blithely absorb the overcharges. |
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When snake sheds its skin, it slides out of it, leaves it behind and moves on blithely with life. |
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When he asks why she is in therapy, she blithely professes ignorance and discusses the finer points of gourmet cooking. |
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They leave Henry's story blithely messy, the product of a man who is only barely self-aware. |
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Like just about everyone else in the film, she is hedonistic and blithely self-involved. |
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Her recommendations range blithely from the momo at street stalls in Majnu ka Tilla to the Bukhara at the Maurya Sheraton. |
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The uneasy separation of motive from outcome, which he blithely assumes in theory, is inoperable in practice. |
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I find it incredible that they could so blithely scrap the hallowed Kangaroo route to London via Singapore, but scrap it they have. |
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Critics blithely ignorant of its subject matter routinely dismiss western art as purely anecdotal. |
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She is not a woman to worry excessively about committing bigamy and now she is blithely preparing to move ahead into trigamy. |
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He blithely sailed off into a maelstrom and delivered a steady performance as France's sailing stars faltered around him. |
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His first thought was that of every young man, who blithely thinks to pit the bravado he miscalls courage against every obstacle. |
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His acrimonious split from his wife has contributed to his blithely acknowledged misogyny, hence there are no women working in his restaurant. |
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Scott and Aaron, meanwhile, were padding along, toasty as English muffins, as blithely as if they were at home in their bedroom slippers. |
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So when collared by the next-door neighbour and invited in for a cup of tea, I blithely said yes. |
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I was not aware of any restrictions and so unaware, had a good time unruffled and blithely went on working. |
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Why does a conductor so fastidious and precise with an orchestra always seem so blithely undisturbed by such unidiomatic, out-of-tune singing? |
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They walk off the road in various directions and continue blithely on their way. |
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If he guards his food bowl, blithely walk by his bowl and drop in some terrific treats. |
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What an awful nuisance, old boy, to have to spend a good hour of your day blithely deleting the concerns of your riff raff constituents. |
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These white wines, from here and abroad, sail blithely across your taste buds, wake them up, and then gracefully depart. |
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The family's younger son blithely tools around rural Shropshire in his natty two-seater. |
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The Times columnist was blithely condescending to the songwriting team's canon. |
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There is hardly a trace of social realism in this concerto, which seems blithely unconcerned about the world around it. |
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But perhaps the real similarity lies in the smash-and-grab variety of science both fossickers blithely espoused. |
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I did read the report that you are so blithely referring to left and right. |
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I was in Mexico a few weeks ago, blithely unconscious of the Zapatistas. |
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A government minister, presented with some self-evident fact – benefit sanctions cause people to go hungry – blithely rejects it. |
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Damsels can be in distress, without being distressed ladies — blithely awaiting rescue, without a ribbon out of place. |
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You can labor to be consistent or blithely and capaciously contradict yourself. |
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But she takes charge of the ballet blithely, and there's a marvelously gleeful authority with which she enounces many steps. |
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Many Yiddish words that people blithely toss around are in fact exceedingly vulgar. |
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But still, we blithely tank up on latte and unleaded, and head for the open road. |
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This report correctly points to inconclusive evidence on one side, yet blithely lauds inconclusive evidence on the other. |
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It is self-delusion to believe that we are safe from the blast waves, ensconced in our booths and blithely choosing to look the other way. |
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As the pair cavorted blithely on deck, smooching over cocktails, the world's press took to the water in hot pursuit of the scandal. |
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That we could not go on blithely as before, relying on power politics between nation states and the art of war. |
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It is also a powerful cautionary tale for all those who blithely repose their faith in State-led legal reform, codification, standardisation and uniformity. |
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Unfortunately, the rest of us often march blithely on, continuing to drink at an unhindered pace. |
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He's spending RCMP money, which you're responsible for, and you seem to take it rather blithely and nonchalantly to send a guy to supervise. |
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Nevertheless, the principles of a treaty remain legally binding and cannot be blithely reinterpreted over time by any party. |
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One subject blithely said that they assumed the food tasted better because that's what the media kept telling them. |
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The remix is a musical gems that alternates blithely funky and house music. |
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Nevertheless, he blithely ignored these instructions and endangered the lives of two partners. |
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It just thinks that as long as it blithely spends the money and throws money at the wall some will stick. |
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We did it blithely, with no one telling us anything and with no safety system to protect us. |
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Extant anthropoids appear to be blithely insouciant to such syndromes. |
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So far I have been assuming an understanding of ghosts and ghostliness, blithely employing these terms as if they were commonly understood, let alone accepted. |
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Secondly, readers should not cluck their satisfaction so blithely over economic sanctions. |
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Developers mid-way through construction who blithely ignored the warning signs about leaky homes and waterproofing have unsaleable, even uncertifiable properties. |
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But anyone with a friend or relative in the US, and an inclination to do so, will blithely continue to brazen it out with the traffic law enforcers. |
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He rather blithely admits that recklessness in a source is a good thing, that nuance is the enemy of good television, that newsmen love news no matter who it hurts. |
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But if we blithely assume that the second enclosure movement will have the same benign effects as the first, we may look like very silly geese indeed. |
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As the bombs fell on the city, the woman blithely continued with her chores. |
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That is simply not something that can be blithely ignored or belittled. |
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Second thoughts about buying this stupid bike, second thoughts about riding in 40-plus degrees, and second thoughts about blithely riding home in uniform. |
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Dealing with the question in these terms, means considering that these African immigrations raise a problem while blithely neglecting their social contexts. |
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We heard the Minister of Canadian Heritage blithely repeating in all the media and even in this House that we must not fund such productions and that the purpose of the section was to prevent such horrors. |
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The Council official blithely arrives here at the very end of the debate. |
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According to general consensus, special mention goes out to the dizzying trampolinists, and acrobats who seemed to blithely mistake walls for sidewalks! |
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I know that you blithely accuse those who do not share your blind belief in the benefits of the Europe of Brussels of lies, of mediocrity and even of stupidity. |
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We have heard several members blithely say that Quebec is a spoiled child. |
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I always thought that the last thing a candidate should do is blithely say that they need a certain amount of money or else they will not be able to get elected. |
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There's something insalubrious about his Inspector Clouseau, a camp, mincing, blithely destructive senior citizen with the hormones of an adolescent and the intellect of a toddler. |
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To the contrary, however, the effect of these borborygmic paintings was and is blithely jocular. |
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The current Prime Minister is on record on numerous occasions before he became Prime Minister as saying that he advocated Senate reform, but he blithely forgets about it now. |
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New characters tumble into the story blithely. |
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Mostly, the group stay just the right side of oversweet whimsy, apart from 'Shark Song', when Mercer blithely suggests hiding in a shell should said predator approach. |
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He goes ballistic when his out-of-wedlock child is mentioned, but he blithely drags Mr. Cuomo's daughters into the fray by calling their father a bad parent for taking them to a gay pride parade. |
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Treasury officials huddling over the bids trickling in from private-equity firms and others for Northern Rock, the stricken mortgage lender, would do well to read it before blithely signing a deal. |
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While most children will blithely relate intimate family things that would mortify their parents, children who grow up with woman abuse or child maltreatment are just the opposite. |
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Hasan was suffering extreme emotional stress, or to blithely assert that while there were warning signs, hindsight is always twenty-twenty. |
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And, having got into the grounds, there's always the guarantee that some teens will have snuck off for private biology lessons, blithely unaware they'll end up on a meathook. |
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Inundated by too many of them, we tend to ignore them completely, to accept them blithely, to disbelieve them closemindedly, or simply to misinterpret their significance. |
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