Tennys waved a hand, affecting nonchalance and tapped his finger against a nostril.
I asked, affecting nonchalance, wondering what wasn't possible.
"Och, well, that's no but a wee king snake," he said, affecting nonchalance.
Pleddis shrugged his shoulders, affecting nonchalance he did not feel.
He stirs the coffee, bopping his head in time to the Muzak, affecting nonchalance.
There's a bit of high-stakes poker to the German tactic of affecting nonchalance.
Then, in a strange voice, affecting nonchalance and superficiality he said to her: "Sitting in the church there reminded me of Ingram."
Hoomey was so relieved he felt like bursting into tears, but with Nails beside him he forced himself to affect nonchalance.
She is affecting nonchalance, jutting a careless hip in my general direction, but doesn't fool me.
"Oh, it's you," he murmured, affecting nonchalance as he partially reclined back onto the pillows.