Word: blase
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...supposedly blase French last week lined up along the Champs Elysees to see the latest movie by Director Roger (And God Created Woman) Vadim, the man who virtually invented Brigitte Bardot. Forgetting France's reputation for tolerance, half the Cabinet had insisted on seeing, and in effect censoring, Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Affairs), based on an 18th century classic novel about what might be called advanced sex education. The frank and cynical description of the affairs of two wideranging lovers-aided by a camera so candid that it sometimes even peeped under the bed sheets-was carefully edited before...
...easy to be an atheist, a skeptic. My hope is that students will dare to be emotionally honest, instead of falling into an easy blase attitude...The most individualistic thing to do on the Harvard campus now would be to become a religious...
...easy to be an atheist, a skeptic. My hope is that students will dare to be emotionally honest, instead of falling into an easy blase attitude... The most individualistic thing to do on the Harvard campus now would be to become a religious...
Mark-consciousness, however, is the price of conscientiousness. Girls have "an almost neurotic feeling about grades, "Morris says. Generally they worry about degrees of Honors, reading, and other matters which the oft-more blase Harvard student regards as supercillious. "Selective" reading, some men argue, may demonstrate a greater degree of maturity than simply plowing through an entire reading list...
...Second Man, originally a short story, was based on a quotation from Lord Leighton, a British painter: "There is another man inside me, cynical, blase, critical." Behrman dramatized the story in three weeks while unemployed and casting about desperately for ideas; produced by the Theatre Guild, it was an overnight success, and Behrman has been a playwright ever since...