Word: glazed
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Once the avoidance begins to work, the patient cares less about the diagnosis. Fear loses its power to instruct. Urgency vanishes before magic. The country glides into a toxic subjectivity. The eyes glaze a little, and clouds close over the glimpse of death. The problem will vanish, the earth will get well. The mind billows off to locate better memories, if it can (old glories, myths of its own innocence, old muscles, resources long since squandered, wars won when the nation was young and saved the world, when its virtue shone and sped by on tail fins). Americans con themselves...
...face of this media barrage, students seem prone to abandon a healthy skepticism of events and indulge in nostalgia or extravagant self reflection. It seems a choice between television's "The Wonder years" and "thirtysomething." Talk to some under graduates and their eyes glaze over with longing at the mention of the 1960s student movements. Others engage in a never-ending, narcissistic evaluation of our own contemporary emotional well being, the value of our "life choices," or simply how much money we can make before...
...Life doesn't look happy for them, but I may be viewing them in the wrong setting," he said. "They're painfully competitive. They have a reluctance to speak out out of fear of looking foolish. People have a sophisticated glaze that makes it hard to enjoy life...
...details of his job. (He denies this trait vehemently, thinking it Carteresque.) He reads the papers each morning in bed, clipping and underlining things that catch his eye, and later sends copies to aides for follow-up. On the show, Bush's eyes may have seemed to glaze over when Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter presented him with a copy of the new farm bill, but the President is more able than most politicians to argue the finer points of crop subsidies. There was a brief glimpse of Bush hunt-and- pecking on an electric typewriter, but the script failed...
...People come in here and buy ducks, you know, quack, quack. I guess the turkey's pretty traditional. But you can cook duck in the same way or glaze it with orange or something," Huston says...