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Every device is tried to tickle his dead palate; but the succession of dainties is of no avail, for the man cannot assimilate what is set before him, and he becomes soft of muscle, devoid of nerve a weed of civilisation. Are not the cases analogous to those of the sound reverent student and the weary blasé skimmer of books?
"He's back there somewheres." "I'm going to show that guy up this afternoon," said Mr. Butler coldly. "He's been getting too fresh." The manager bustled off, and Bugs Butler, with a final smirk, left Sally and dived under the ropes. There was a stir of interest in the audience, though the newspaper men, blasé through familiarity, exhibited no emotion. Presently Mr.
"Well, will you go to Epsom with us to-morrow, Alfred?" said Lord Fitzheron. "I take Berners and Charles Egremont, and with you our party will be perfect." "I feel so cursed blase!" exclaimed the boy in a tone of elegant anguish. "It will give you a fillip, Alfred," said Mr Berners; "do you all the good in the world."
Kukushkin flattered Orlov's weaknesses, humoured his corrupted and blasé ways; to please him he affected malicious raillery and atheism, in his company criticised persons before whom in other places he would slavishly grovel. When at supper they talked of love and women, he pretended to be a subtle and perverse voluptuary.
On the floor of the House his formal speeches on the tariff, a topic to which nothing new could be brought, commanded the attention of one of the most critical and blase audiences of the world.
At one of the great official receptions at the White House one night some years ago, a group of two or three gentlemen were observing the swirling throng, with its ambitions, its jealousies, its brief flashes of happiness, its numberless and infinitesimal intrigues, its atmosphere of jaded, blasé, and defeated expectations.
There is the use of the favourite word "windy," and later in the piece "The troublous autumn's SALLOW gloom." The young poet from boyhood was original in his manner. Byron made him blase at fourteen. Then Byron died, and Tennyson scratched on a rock "Byron is dead," on "a day when the whole world seemed darkened for me." Later he considered Byron's poetry "too much akin to rhetoric."
Your simplicity and frankness are all the more charming to a woman who needs new sensations. Probably she is tired of her blasé and wary admirers just now. She will capture you, and I shall see a new and obsequious slave." Greenleaf attempted to speak, but could not get in a word. "I felicitate you," continued Easelmann. "You will have a valuable experience, at any rate.
Captain Barry, he added, with a sigh, 'the thing that I regret most in life perhaps it is because I am old, blase, and dying is, that I never had a virtuous attachment. 'Ha! ha! a milkmaid's daughter! said I, laughing at the absurdity. 'Well, why not a milkmaid's daughter? There's nothing like having a virtuous drudge at home, sir; depend upon that.
At one time he was all that was delightful, full of natural, boy-like good-comradeships at another he was a bored and supercilious dandy, looking down on schoolgirls from an intolerable height of patronage, and evidently priding himself on a blase indifference.
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