In London in 2011, however, bibliophiles can breathe easy: despite the riots, books have tended to stay safely on their shelves, their subtle power blithely overlooked.
Still, while blithely equating money with feces in the unconscious, he himself was not immune to its power: "my mood also depends very strongly on my earnings," he wrote to a colleague.
That declaration, blithely repeated by Iran's foreign ministry on Monday, shocked the assembled diplomats.
America, its chief mediator for the past three decades, has formally taken time out. Israel's government seems blithely uninterested.
Everyone blithely signed on to the EU's flagship emissions-trading scheme. But France and Germany then gave their industries so many permits to pollute that they undermined the entire scheme.
Policymakers blithely assumed they would avoid a dollar crisis and that America would export its way out of any trouble.
For hours after Mr Hariri's murder, Syrian television blithely ran cartoons, followed by a programme on the glories of Syria's archaeological ruins.
Daniel Altman, an American academic economist who once worked for the economist, blithely ignores this advice in his new book.
Analysts are blithely assuming they can keep rising.
Since nothing like that is on the table, or seems likely to get on the table any time soon, it will take years for families and firms to work off the debt they ran up so blithely.
The gate was open, so I blithely strolled into the estate intending to knockon the door.
I should state for the record that when I first blithely proclaimed my intentions I really did think I wanted to be the oldest man in the world.
Commission officials blithely bat these concerns aside, saying that national bank supervisors can agree in advance how to wind up cross-border Banks.
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