The son he blithely assumed would follow him into the police has secretly taken up with student rebels.

Any normal human wouldn't have jumped off a perfectly fine boat, blithely assuming he could swim to an unseen shore.

"Just because they've done so far, you don't blithely assume that the Iraqis will respect diplomatic protocols forever," a diplomat said.

Almost poetry, really, which they blithely assumed was an accurate representation of reality.

And he had been blithely assuming that just because she'd been sleeping with him, she was obviously going to be fixated on him.

With remarkable chutzpah, these companies have embarked on a course that blithely assumes that change in law.

She was so intent in her focus that she blithely assumed every other person shared her obsessive dedication.

She gives him a wrong address, goes home to have his child and blithely assumes that one day he will turn up again.

Even the United States cannot blithely assume that financial markets will work on autopilot.

The film, however, blithely assumes Hauptmann's total innocence and barrels ahead.