Word: blase
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...provided concrete changes instead of abstract impossibilities. Because people were taught that only prayer could alleviate their lot, and that blessings demanded enthusiastic thanks, they now bestow this on the scientific community. Dr. Bush need not fear that the problem will be with us for long: we are becoming blase already...
...first broke in," he says, "writers like Hughie Fullerton, Bill McGeehan and Will Wedge wrote much closer to the game than writers do now. They told the fans what was happening and why. They were full of the inside stuff. Now the young writers try to be sophisticated, blase. 'Hell,' they say, 'everybody knows what...
Some HCUA members blamed the student indifference on a lack of communication between the HCUA and undergraduates; others mentioned the inherent unsensational nature of the Council; and still others said the lack of interest was due to Harvard's traditional blase attitude toward student politics...
...country home near Brighton, and they reached an essentially negative agreement: the projected multilateral NATO nuclear force would be allowed to die. In Italy, the President's reception, the day after Pope Paul's coronation, was something like Grand Rapids on a rainy day. Rome's blase millions stayed away in droves. Overeager Italian security cops pushed people around, even roughed up White House Staffers McGeorge Bundy and Ted Sorensen...
...introduced a motion commending the Fire departments of Cambridge and 11 other towns and cities that helped extinguish the Easter blase, and then amended it to include the proposal for obtaining aid. The resolution was approved unanimously...