Russia, in turn, felt humiliated by America's blithe indifference to its views about Yugoslavia.
Mr Berlusconi's lacklustre, almost blithe speech looked like a missed opportunity to influence the course of events.
This blithe formulation always begged the question: What would the early years of such "warning" look like?
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San Francisco designer Ann Getty seems remarkably blithe about the issue, even though her husband's TV is gargantuan.
At the zebra she waved him goodbye and went off to her Tuesday-night bingo, blithe as a bird.
Its chairman, a former California congressman named Christopher Cox, exuded blithe faith that the financial markets would regulate themselves.
Hanks plays Larry, a blithe, middle-aged spirit who loses his job and, with barely a hiccup, embarks on self-improvement.
Of course, pop culture can do more to put an end to this blithe acceptance of violence toward women.
Just the kind of blithe, accelerated nonsense that we need after the holidays.
The one valid criticism of these rankings is the blithe assumption that all American families and retirees are the same.
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Though a bit too blithe about Arab intentions towards Israel, the interesting part of it is not what it says about the Middle East.
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Dondero's hopeful lyrics are echoed in the instrumentation of this song as a blithe keyboard brightens a long shadow of a melancholy steel guitar.
Scott Fitzgerald were distant enough from the blithe lives of their subjects to tinge their depictions with tragedy but near enough to be persuasive about it.
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Perhaps those who argued for ever higher fuel taxes on environmental grounds, including this newspaper, were too blithe about the effects on motorists and industry.
But the real birthday girl is Addie, who finds rebirth and new resolve to take charge of her life during the course of her blithe adventure.
There's an insecurity beneath the blithe Brazilian brand, like the unease you sense in those who strut Rio's beaches, worriedly checking themselves in every car window.
"He seems to view with blithe unconcern the erosion of Britain's sovereignty in Europe, " she said, adding that his leadership would put Europe "at the forefront of politics".
Then Hitchcock turns his blithe gamesmanship against itself, as Ashenden gets enmeshed in a jarring crisis of conscience as well as a tortured romance with his manufactured missus.
Sondheim seems surprisingly blithe about what amounts to a slur.
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Jeremy Irons, as Lena's smoking-jacketed rotter-aristocrat uncle, and Emma Thompson, as her floridly angry mother, are like blithe spirits out of a Dark Shadows sequel you want to see.
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Blithe to Stalin, Chagall sent a reckless letter in 1937 to his art teacher in Vitebsk that probably cost the old man his life at the hands of the secret police.
Notwithstanding their attachment to the bidet (derived from the French word for pony, being similarly bestridden), the otherwise sophisticated French have long had a reputation for a certain blithe disregard for personal cleanliness.
Or are Suhail Khan's blithe assurances that Shariah is consistent with a "religion of peace" and no danger to America, nothing more than a program that Muslims can interpret however they wish, to be believed?
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In "Eternal Sunshine, " Mr. Kaufman rides his hobby horses -- whimsical surrealism, acrobatic or elastic time, science or psychology reshaped by blithe fantasy -- to a photo finish in which almost everything is worked out elegantly.
If Eric Elmosnino, who plays the adult Gainsbourg, is less of a standout, that may be because he feels more securely embedded in the film that surrounds him, and in its blithe reluctance to follow narrative custom.
And that audience gets what it wants within the first 10 minutes of Nancy Meyers' blithe, self-regarding, fitfully charming paean to the fairy-tale luck of middle-aged women wealthy enough to maintain a delightful standard of living after a divorce.
That's the cue for all the outcasts the fatties and the coloreds to march for civil rights, and for Tracy's blithe best friend, played by the lovely Amanda Bynes, to swoon over Elijah Kelley as a fresh-faced black dancer.
He contested the determination of his party (which at the time ruled Britain) to appease the Nazis, in the face of enormous public resistance to his message and over the blithe assurances of his nations intelligence services that Hitlers build-up either was not real or posed no threat.
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