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The art of looking like you didn't try, which is itself a lot of trying.
means A relaxed, unbothered air — the studied appearance of not caring much about the outcome.
from From French nonchalance, built from non- ('not') and chaloir ('to care about, to matter'), a verb descended from Latin calere, 'to be warm.' So to be nonchalant is, at root, to be unheated by something — no warmth of concern rising at all, at least on the surface.
- origin
- from French for not heating up
- paradox
- requires immense effort to fake effortlessness
- french ideal
- elevated to national personality trait
- tell
- overdone version reads as pure anxiety