Literary notes about easygoing (AI summary)
In literature, "easygoing" is frequently employed to paint a picture of a relaxed, unflappable character or atmosphere. Authors use the term to denote a naturally calm and affable personality, highlighting traits such as good humor and an inherent lack of pretentiousness [1, 2, 3]. At the same time, its use can be charged with irony when the same calmness suggests passivity or a deficiency in ambition, hinting at an underlying tension between composure and complacency [4, 5]. Beyond individual characters, "easygoing" also helps evoke a broader, leisurely ambiance that can be both inviting and subtly critical of a carefree lifestyle [6, 7].
- He was somewhere in his thirties, easygoing of face, brownish of hair, bluish of eye and moderately good-looking.
— from The Common Man by Mack Reynolds - The Austrian ambassador was a good-natured, easygoing, and generous man; as for her husband he was not worthy of her, and she never saw him.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - Nor did I care to make very much of it, for I was of a simple and easygoing nature.
— from Through Russia by Maksim Gorky - Easygoing lives are always contemptible lives.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Alexander Maclaren - She is rather easygoing; and he is insufferably conceited.
— from The Irrational KnotBeing the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw - And this morning had been one long, easygoing, session.
— from An Encounter in Atlanta by Ed Howdershelt - The emotional tone is good-natured, easygoing and accessible.
— from Mental diseases: a public health problem by James Vance May
