Word: blase
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter how blase Californians pretend to be about earthquakes, this one shook that faxade. Lisa Sheeran, a public relations manager, picked up a rental car in Colma, just off the San Andreas fault. As she opened one of the doors, the vehicle bounced up and down. "What's wrong with this car?" she asked. The rental agent shrugged and said, "I don't know." Then both watched a wave of undulating earth approach them from a graveyard at the bottom of a hill. It reminded her of the ghostly movie Alien...
...Brits' blase attitude was perhaps understandable. The revelation came after the screening of a KGB film that went to absurd lengths to present its intelligence agents as humane, sensitive blokes with a fondness for cooking and poetry...
...March, when Ispent a week helping him finish his thesis. It wasexhausting and often frustrating, but in the endthe experience helped me decide to become a SocialStudies major and write a thesis of my own. Andbeing involved so closely in the life of a seniorwas exactly what a blase first-year student likemyself was seeking...
...much emphasis is put on self- expression and broad-mindedness that at one point an instructor found himself equating drug taking with drinking, and upholding both. "You can do alcohol. You can do drugs," he admonished. "Just don't drive!" A stodgy European less accustomed to the same blase acceptance of drug taking -- and a good many citizens of Los Angeles for that matter -- would shudder to extend such logic much further...
Still, the combination of mental and physical fatigue can make any potentially exciting game pretty blase...