Sarah Weinman

Out of the ashes of the Great War came the freewheeling cultural renaissance that was the Jazz Age, but the decade-long party of flapper dresses and bootlegging came to a crashing halt with the Crash of '29 - triggering the Great Depression and the New Deal that would help America get back on its feet, just in time for another, greater war.

American Journalist

Steve Carell

There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew it wasn't all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way.

American Actor

Patrick O'Brian

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

English Novelist

Charlie Baker

When my brothers and I were young, my mom, a Democrat, and my dad, a Republican, used to lead freewheeling discussions at our dinner table. The only rule was paying attention when others were talking, and no interrupting.

American Politician

Annalee Newitz

When Usenet was eclipsed by websites in the late 1990s, people from that world - many of them programmers - wanted to bring the freewheeling, amazing discussions of Usenet to the web. And thus, RSS was born.

Jesse Eisenberg

In 'Zombieland,' it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn't matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was a consistent banter.

Sydney Pollack

I like thrillers a lot. There's a lot of discipline connected to them. You can't be as freewheeling as you are with character pieces.

American Director

Meghan O'Rourke

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

American Poet

Ben Hopkins

I'm a freewheeling flower-child falling down the stairs constantly.

British Director

Conveys enthusiasm for freedom and spontaneity in actions or lifestyle.

Positive Spin

Can imply a carefree and joyful attitude toward life.

Emotional Connotation

Fits best in casual or creative settings, not formal ones.

Context Sensitivity

May suggest negligence or lack of discipline in responsibilities.

Negative Implication

Often used when indicating disapproval of someone's methods or attitude.

Criticism Cue

Suggests an approach that might be too relaxed for the situation.

Lack of Seriousness

Refers to an engineering function meant to reduce resistance or allow movement without direct control.

Technical Feature

Used in mechanical discussions, it relates to physical components rather than abstract concepts.

Mechanical Context

 like a roller coaster but like freewheeling it was so cool it was so fast it was obviously it's crazy we made it all the way through and out all the way to the top of trend and actually that's what I see is that if we had our own natural momentum would we be able to

Freewheeling