He was with some gorgeous blonde, and the two of them were trying to be very blasé and all, like as if he didn’t even know people were looking at him.
Salinger, J.D.
The Catcher in the Rye
Not that I’m such a blasé, convenience-sake sort of guy—although I do have tendencies in that direction—but because more often than not I’ve observed that convenient approximations bring you closest to comprehending the true nature of things.
Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
You are somewhat blasé I know, and family scenes have not much effect on Sinbad the Sailor, who has seen so many others.
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
She didn’t like the new tone; for, though not blasé, it sounded indifferent in spite of the look.
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
There is something about his extremely blasé attitude that inspires fear.
Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash
The scanty, daringly short skirt, riding up at the knee to show a peep of white pantalette, is a potent weapon and transparent stockings, emeraldgartered, with the long straight seam trailing up beyond the knee, appeal to the better instincts of the blasé man about town.
James Joyce
Ulysses
But don’t you see, Harry, that if he intended the diary to be passed to, or planted on, some future Hogwarts student, he was being remarkably blasé about that precious fragment of his soul concealed within it.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Nagasawa said this with a blasé look on his face, then slugged back the rest of his whisky and ordered another.
murakami, haruki
Norwegian wood
Even the professional detectives, blasé as they were in every detail of crime, appeared to be keenly interested in the man’s story.
Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet