stiffness

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Noun
  • The rise of Silicon Valley, from indifference to lords of the political universe.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Numbness had set in, and with numbness, indifference.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Most of Ukraine’s ravaged cultural sites are like the shelled Reims Cathedral: perhaps not directly targeted, but destroyed with ruthless unconcern.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Marked by the artist’s apparent unconcern with conventional modeling and draftsmanship and by the velvety smoothness of his brushwork, the paintings exude an aura of quietude and utter perfection unrivaled in the work of his peers.
    Mary Tompkins Lewis, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2022
Noun
  • The experience leans more cool than comfy: There are warnings about the heat upstairs during certain months and the hardness of the futons.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 19 July 2024
  • Test strips were again used to evaluate the hardness of the water once the testing period concluded.
    Brittany VanDerBill, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Popovich’s wry aloofness is a trademark of 21st-century basketball, but the recent outpouring of love for him should warm even the Grinch-iest.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Bobby is, of course, Bob Dylan, played here by Timothée Chalamet in a near-magical performance that throws off all the right kind of sparks: newness, genius, a touch of aloofness that was probably easier for Dylan to fake than modesty and, under it all, a kind of aggressive, combative hunger.
    Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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