Word: blase
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...slumbering or highly indifferent. In former years the classes have responded far more readily to the dance and have enabled the committees by means of their support to make it a delightful affair. Whether or not the situation this year will be remedied by the disappearance of a somewhat blase attitude in a portion of the class remains to be seen...
Although the self-interest, the culture, and the social ethics of modern times are causes of the partial disappearance of brutal religious persecution, the equally powerful counter forces--passive curiosity, and contemptuous interest--are frequently met with. The former, attitude, characteristic of blase travellers in pursuit of novel experiences, is directly opposite to the spirit of the traveller St. Paul, whose benevolent sympathy yearned for the enlightenment of his brothers. The latter spirit is often found in missionaries who adopt a fashionable contempt, often disparaging and villifying the people whom they are pretending to raise. It is their narrow mindedness...