Word: jadedness
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So baseball will come to Oakland again this October. The fans -- a little jaded but forever immature -- will cheer their favorites with Bay Area gentility, punctuated by the occasional "Rip it, dude!" Triumph will satisfy but not surprise them; only failure will astonish. The A's know this. As they...
Until that time, it is no mystery why so many Harvard students arrive one September with bright eyes and bushy tails and depart four years later with cynical, jaded smirks.
There is indeed. It is a system that punishes eroticism with an X rating, yet rewards violence -- from rape to dismemberment -- with an R. Each new violent movie, like this summer's Total Recall, wants to astonish jaded audiences with its special-effects audacity. But adult sexuality, even when investigated...
So if you're making a list of how New Yorkers differ from other Americans -- even other city dwellers -- write "funny looking" near the top. Also write "jaded" or maybe "blase": New Yorkers have seen a million guys like that no matter what the guy is like. We've seen...
Nachtwey has never become jaded by war, which helps explain why his photographs are so powerful. "You're never the same," he says. "Each time, you're left with an awareness of something very dark and cruel that you have to carry with you always. You pay a price, you...