Word: blase
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...with it nowadays, the swinger and would-be swinger are expected to take a blase if not widely permissive view of LSD, marihuana, and virtually anything else that offers a flight into funsville. Since it helps to have a little intellectual support, the more anxiously hip members of the Now Generation will find some comfort in this one-sided propaganda volume in praise...
...impressed by two qualities in New Yorkers. They are no more gifted-or less ignorant-than their peers elsewhere; yet they are certain that they must be. And they lead lives of exposure to abnormal and unremitting stimuli, against which their defense is a shell of aggressive, blase behavior. What catches their attention and wins their approval must be more aggressive, more shocking, more violent, but by no means necessarily more worthy, than this constant hyper-level of stimuli...
...championship vanished in the Stadium last Saturday: the Crimson seems consigned to third place in the League behind Princeton and Dartmouth. Penn started its season well, but after an injury ended the football career of star tallback Bruce Molloy, the Quakers appear destined to end the year in a blase of mediocrity...
...Timbertop's "young old boys" in February. There had been rumors that the prince might transfer from Scotland's Gordonstoun School, and, while royalty is something special at "Australia's Eton," wealthy boys from throughout the world are commonplace there, and the slushies* are pretty blase about such things...
...nights later, though, she was out, staging still another the-show-must-go-on performance and evoking memories of her own by belting her way through 40 minutes of the old songs at Las Vegas' Thunderbird Hotel. She left the stage to an ovation from the blase Vegas audience...