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.

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At the zebra she waved him goodbye and went off to her Tuesday-night bingo, blithe as a bird.

ECONOMIST: Winnie Johnson

Hanks plays Larry, a blithe, middle-aged spirit who loses his job and, with barely a hiccup, embarks on self-improvement.

NEWYORKER: Larry Crowne

Mr Berlusconi's lacklustre, almost blithe speech looked like a missed opportunity to influence the course of events.

ECONOMIST: Italy and the euro

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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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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Sondheim seems surprisingly blithe about what amounts to a slur.

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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.

WSJ: Brilliant Mind Games

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.

NEWYORKER: Secret Agent

Its chairman, a former California congressman named Christopher Cox, exuded blithe faith that the financial markets would regulate themselves.

NEWYORKER: A Dirty Business