Word: blasé
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...here. "This," he says, gesturing with a hashish-stuffed joint, "is becoming almost as common as this," raising a glass of red wine. "It's so banal anymore that even cops scarcely notice so long as you don't blow the smoke into their face," he says in a blas? tone. (When asked for his name, however, he snorts derisively "Tamere," the French equivalent to "Your mama...
...about? The movie documents a sex, drugs and rock n' roll party that's over despite most not wanting to admit it. It presents a portrait of the band tired of touring and feigning interest, of the boring, naked groupies, of life for a few lads who are already blas? about getting anything they could ask for. When the band isn't playing music - either onstage or in impromptu tourplane jams, where they do seem happy and engaged - they seem tired and uninterested. In other words, like drummer Charlie Watts has looked every day since 1963. It is the hangers...
...dentist. So it's no surprise, perhaps, that his early works are as sadistic as a triple root canal. In The Past and the Punishments, a collection of Yu's short stories, a young girl is eviscerated by cannibals. Elsewhere in the anthology, a murderer is himself dissected by blas? organ harvesters. Yu meant to critique a Chinese society whose capacity for cruelty can still astonish, but even his avant-garde peers were a bit put off. "I can't imagine what kind of brutal tortures patients endured under his cruel steel pliers," the author Mo Yan once wrote...
...rather have the press talking about his triumph over advanced testicular cancer than about his cycling victories, adding that he considers himself a cancer survivor first, and a Tour champion second. That hasn?t kept sportswriters and die-hard cycling fans from bemoaning the American public?s blas? take on Armstrong?s accomplishments. Even this summer, after Lance stunned his competition by shredding the Tour?s two toughest climbing stages, L?Alpe D?Huez and Chamrousse, steaming past Jan Ullrich, his closest rival, the U.S. media managed little more than a two-minute mention. "Americans don?t understand," an Armstrong...
Richardson's understated reaction to this week's scandal has only served, observers and opponents argue, to underscore his reputation as an unsuitably blas? presence in a high-security post. Adding fuel to this fire, on Wednesday he skipped a congressional hearing into the Los Alamos losses, a move that garnered considerable ire in the form of a strikingly unsubtle rebuke to the secretary: The Republican-controlled Senate confirmed the nation's first National Nuclear Security Administration. But that wasn't the end of Richardson's nonchalance. In a statement apparently devoid of irony, he reportedly complained that the creation...