blase

• Particularly in the field of propaganda, we must never let ourselvesbe led by aesthetes or people who have grown blase: not by the former, becausethe form and expression of our propaganda would soon, instead of being suitablefor the masses, have drawing power only for literary teas; and of the secondwe must beware, because, lacking in any fresh emotion of their own, theyare always on the lookout for new stimulation. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: War Propaganda
• Roslynn was a trifle disappointed that the fellow could look so blase, as if he were quite accustomed to finding his employer at the door with a woman in his arms. —  Johanna Lindsey - Tender Rebel
• In this case she merely looked up at him and smiled sweetly, and as for the blase , stately Count, he simply would not let him out of his sight. —  In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875
• He wept for Helen, playmate of the years never to return, sweetheart of his youth, betrayer of his manhood, the young woman of the present, blase, unsexed, seeking, provocative, all perhaps, as she had said, that men had made her--a travesty on splendid girlhood. —  The Day of the Beast
• So far as you are concerned, you are a little used up and 'blase', as we all are in this Babylon of ours; have recourse, then, as a remedy, to the very excesses which have brought you into this state. —  The French Immortals Series — Complete

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