Word: blase
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...shoes, and my knickers jammed in my pyjamas. Eventually we all got down and sat on benches, then everybody lay down on the stone (very cold) floor and wrapped ourselves in bathing wraps. . . . We had two more today, one very short and then a long one. We got quite blase. . . . We giggled and talked, and it was almost dawn before we got to bed. Nobody came to breakfast before half past nine. Don't for goodness sake get rattled, the staff has been awfully decent and there has been absolutely no panic. They all look absolute screeches, especially...
Three engines and the first chief handled the blase adequately. From tutor Thaddeus Lockhart came the remark. "That boy will have to have his studio couch re-done...
...Definitely psychasthenic, manicdepressive, dementia praccox, parctic personalities with a large does of inferiority complex" was the verdict of Archibald B. Butterfield, informed that two Princeton psychologists had found Harvard men to be "anobbish, blase, conceited, intellectual, and socialite...
...Harvard men are snobbish, blase, conceited, intellectual, socialite-- and certainly not he-mannish" is the verdict reached by two Princeton psychologists, from a pool of 380 students in the "Big Four" college: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth...
...members of the Footlight Club. Having only two hours in which to work, Mr. Kaufman and Miss Ferber have made an amazing number of young women stand out as real persons. The secret is probably that heavy lines and strong colors are used: there is the witty cynic, the blase adventures, the man-hater, the sweet young thing from the South, the inescapable talker, the pair of mediocre pals, the dancer of irrepressible gaiety and the lonesome victim of melancholia. The summary is only partial. If Miss Bennett is not sufficient inducement, it's worth your while...