Word: blase
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...PALM COURT in New York's Plaza Hotel is a very classy place to stop for tea. Impeccably dressed waiters, who click their heels and stride with the stiff elegance of Russian officers in a Hollywood extravaganza, serve coffee in glistening silver coffeepots. Fragments of blase conversations about grand openings and charity balls and Tiffany diamonds drift above the fronds of potted palms encircling the cozy tables...
Have we become so blase that we can shove one of the most sensational events in our millennium into a tiny corner of TIME'S cover...
...Royal Anthropological Institute. He reports finding no strong sanctions against sexual activity or any other ready explanation for the undernourished libidos of the Dani. Under questioning, tribesmen said violation of the post partum abstinence would cause trouble with the tribe's ghosts. Yet the Dani are notably blase about their ghosts, and Heider concludes that their observance of this supernatural sanction "must be understood as fairly casual, pro forma...
...Cleveland everyone is blase about snow, and after four years in Massachusetts, I had become inured to it also. Out over Little Italy all I felt was the cold, and I was the first to suggest going back...
This is the popular image--Harvard men as snobs, outwardly cynical and blase and self-assured (that's the part Harvard taught them) and inwardly ambitious (that's the part they came with). People have been talking about Harvard snobs for at lest two hundred years and for two hundred years it's been at least partly true. It will be strange, because while at first it will seem more foreign than anything in the world, after a couple years you'll notice--on a trip home, maybe--that without even wanting to you've picked up some...