Word: blase
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...talked about without heat and seen, not as proof of derivativeness, but as simply part of his work's ecology. Besides, the '50s were the last time a public could be provoked by art. (Since then, an overload of images has rendered art's audience blase.) This seems to have confronted Rauschenberg with a crisis after his silk-screen paintings won the Venice Biennale in 1964-a dead zucchino now, but the Big Apple then...
Howard's remarks were so blase that I began to consider the possible hidden meanings. Maybe this was just his way of letting us know that he might be here. We could make some modest preparations. A simple motorcade would be fine. A speech at the Varsity Club might be in order...
...young men and women capable of carrying on a useful, normal life) there without any rehabilitation program, without adequate food, without hope of fair treatment? Will it help that much in stopping the drug traffic? I abhor drugs and anything akin to them, but if someone other than the blase embassy could interview these girls and boys, they would find them most happy to use their energies in any kind of anti-drug program...
Harrison's on-and off-court antics entranced even the most blase fan, who was forced to wonder how a man with so much talent could not motivate it or coach it to a successful season. Harry hoped for Harvard to make the top twenty in the nation, but couldn't even take the Ivy League...
Begins Two days after the arrest, White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler dismisses the affair as "a third-rate burglary attempt," adding that "certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is." But others are less blase. Within hours of the breakin, FBI agents find Hunt's name in the address books of Barker and Martinez. Administration officials are also worried because Hunt and Liddy were involved in another secret operation, the White House plumbers, set up in mid-1971 to stop security leaks and investigate other sensitive security matters...