For his 50th birthday, his wife Kate blithely tells him to just go to his favorite corner tavern and have a good time.

My concern was that you thought you could cure this disease, and blithely told him so.

Later, he blithely tells Casper that he will find another.

She blithely tells him he is a bum and skips off into the sunset.

Worrying that Luke will take this as pressure to marry, she blithely tells him that she's not prepared to get married for ten years.

I remember Peter Taylor blithely telling a class to write 15-page short stories that "do the work of novels."

"Now, I know what you're thinking," he blithely tells Wendell.

"You were a kid," the ambassador blithely told him, startlingly familiar with the vernacular.

Several hours later, when the shock wave rumbled over Wide Bay, he blithely told everyone that this was natural enough.

"Now the time is right, though, and John is no longer that wild, idealistic kid who believed everything Balanchine so blithely told him he could do."