Word: blase
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...interested in football from the start, period," Isaac says. "It was sort of amusing for the first few years, but I'm a senior now and pretty blase about it...and everything...
...Broadway is getting pretty blase about the big names from Hollywood--Nicole Kidman, Helen Hunt, Christian Slater--who keep showing up to prove they're more than just flickers on a screen. Harrelson is not a stranger to New York City theater (his first break was as an understudy in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues in 1984), but he's far better known as a star of TV (Cheers) and film (Natural Born Killers). So can he cut it as the eponymous con man of N. Richard Nash's 1954 drama, being revived by the Roundabout Theatre? It's this...
...most seniors--a healthy sense of wonder, that has grown in their souls and informs and animates their studies. If you examine the facial expression and attitude of your average senior, you may find that spark that they entered with has been snuffed out and has been replaced with blase indifference--in their academic lives, personal relationships and in their reaction to the world around them...
...Harvard softball team has a knack for creating drama out of the blase. YALE 1 HARVARD 2 YALE 3 HARVARD 9 BROWN 1 HARVARD 3 BROWN 6 HARVARD...
...Orpheus in various poems, yet her usage encloses the most tragic scenes in a modern living room. She retells: "In the end, Dido/summoned her ladies in waiting/that they might see/the harsh destiny inscribed for her by the fates." The phrase "In the end" dooms the stanza to almost blase speech, which is almost bucked by the phrase "that they might," until the stanza ends with the prepositional pile-up "inscribed for her by the fates." Flat language and idioms mixed with arch language and emplotment are characteristic of Gluck's voice, which, like too many contemporary authors, is often pretentiously...