The idea that term limits are necessary to unseat jaded officials and rouse lazy voters could not be more inapplicable in New York City now. |
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We all feel jaded and long for time to escape and revitalise. I'm consoled with the thought of leaving. |
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While at first glance brittle Callie is a somewhat tired stereotype of the jaded New Yorker, she's easy to warm up to. |
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But I think even the most jaded among us will be impressed with what Andree Cazabon has done. |
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The account reminds the reader that even a smirking, jaded loafer can be profoundly affected by tragedy. |
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The fireworks may awaken the increasingly jaded viewer from his slumbers but invariably fail to unpick a single assumption. |
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He is a jaded actor, past his prime and shooting an absurd commercial for Suntori Whiskey, for which he despises himself. |
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The proper parents of today's jaded kids have their own problems with the circus. |
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I am so jaded by the whole process that I assume that things will basically work exactly the same as before, with a load of new acronyms. |
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In the meantime, what does the man forever jaded against television have to look forward to? |
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If you live for your online friends, you're never going to live in the real world and that will leave you jaded and unhappy. |
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Honestly, if you're too jaded to enjoy being a rock star, you're just too jaded to live. |
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I left the theatre, not raging at a failed masterpiece, but merely feeling a little jaded and nonplussed. |
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It's no great shakes when an old guy feels a bit tired and jaded, and unable to function as a poet for a while. |
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His World Cup exertions have perhaps left him more mentally jaded than straining physically. |
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The usually quicksilver striker is looking jaded and he had three opportunities to put Dundee ahead before Hibs took the lead. |
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The wind and hail arrived with ten minutes left and the visitors looked tired and jaded. |
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Already the jaundice of cynicism and the jaded bitterness of innocence lost cast their hue over my narrative. |
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A haunting air of regret hangs over each country-tinged waltz, as jaded experience battles with eternal hope in the quest for love. |
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Some of the images here caused even this reviewer to quiver a jaded eyebrow. |
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Jonathan had looked restrained, almost world-weary, and perhaps a little jaded even. |
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Genuine patriotism is a tough commodity to come by in these more jaded, jingoistic times. |
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That diversity is the band's true strength and is a very welcome change for us jaded music aficionados. |
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By the time they get there they are totally jaded by the whole thing or keen as mustard to help. |
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His rhetoric is larded with mythic grandiosity that amuses the jaded Western ear. |
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First, Apulians haven't become jaded by a crush of tourists, so they are the friendliest people I've met anywhere in the country. |
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Your literary agent is the book-marketing expert who can sell your crafted words to jaded publishing professionals. |
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You write that troubled teens become jaded and often distrustful of adults and authority. |
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I thought my words were going to change the world but that's all gone now and I'm just a jaded old bag. |
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He is both endearing and funny with his basset hound face and jaded accent. |
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If they grow jaded, grow bored, or simply prefer sentiment and nostalgia to active participation, the last avenue of escape is closed. |
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It goes to reinforce my jaded view that the media are a block to reasoned public debate, the open society, and education. |
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I begin to protest, but then I see the jest in her mischievously jaded gaze. |
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But for those of us jaded enough to have been at last week's dinner party, it looks a mite bit lacking. |
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This is the first showing outside the capital and promises to impress even the most jaded fashion follower and style guru. |
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Unfortunately, even the brightest of new councillors eventually become jaded and beaten down by the bureaucracy of the mother ship. |
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At two o'clock a jaded and blown horse stood before the door of the barracks at Archangel's Rise. |
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Mirrors reflect burnished silver candelabras, enhancing the pleasure of jaded diners who've tasted it all. |
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Although it is still not revelation enough to win over the hearts and minds of those jaded to reality TV or pop generally. |
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As a professed radical, he was to prove a singularly jaded observer of parliaments, parliamentary processes, and parliamentarians. |
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In the first scenario, she'll be remembered as the jaded hussy who couldn't see the value of what she had been given. |
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The grotto guide is a brilliantly jaded girl whose patience is obviously waning come November. |
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I think teenagers dare to be concerned with the most important issues and as they grow older they tend to get jaded. |
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For those not jaded by the whole process, the polls represent a chance to cast a verdict on Kim Dae Jung's achievements so far. |
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In half a minute the light of the lanterns fell upon a hired fly, drawn by a steaming and jaded horse. |
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The cursing continued for some time, barely audible, and showing a fluency that even more jaded Institute graduates would have been shocked at. |
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The people you meet there are all the same too, and underneath the forced smiles and jaded handshakes you detect great reservoirs of boredom. |
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The most avid watcher quickly becomes jaded given the quantity of information to absorb. |
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She walked out of the neighborhood, and onto a jaded road that forked off at one point towards the market area. |
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The shameless profligacy of the emperor's life was such as to shock even a jaded Roman public. |
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So by the time the water company was ready to finally start digging, people were elated but jaded. |
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Talk to me in a few years and maybe I'll be like all the other jaded researchers grubbing for money. |
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It's cool and clean, with none of the jaded heat and dirtiness that will fill it once the streets become choked with traffic. |
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Cross, on the other hand, usually stands disaffectedly in the crowd at shows, blending nicely with the rest of the jaded music fans in this city. |
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There was pubic hair, an erect phallus, graphic sounds all sorts of things to incense prudes, and maybe even affect the more jaded among us. |
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At this time of year, in the dog days of winter, it's really nice to perk up jaded taste buds by injecting a bit of zest into your cooking. |
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Modern girls, jaded with Charlotte, the domestic drudge, turned to the more exciting Emily for inspiration. |
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It reminds me somewhat of the collusion between cynicism and innocence, in which nescience is the very form that jaded dyspepsia takes. |
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Others are less jaded but believe nevertheless that its popularity has diminished its value. |
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Outsiders think we locals are jaded by the natural wonder of this place but the truth is, when a whale broaches, we glare like tourists. |
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And for those of us jaded by too many over-packaged seasonal movie offerings, he's a Christmas gift that just keeps on giving. |
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For the last three days I have been listening to recordings of oral interlocutions of such a numbing homogeneity as to leave your correspondent jaded in the extreme. |
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The breakbeats and two-step rhythms are mashed up with all sorts of other influences to create something that this jaded set of ears hasn't really heard before. |
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His gentle irony acts on her like Kinglake's spurs on jaded Eastern hirelings, and like the accounts of travelers past on our self-styled Anatolian riders. |
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I confess to have become so jaded as to find the practice rather tedious. |
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He has become a jaded cynic who unwraps large packages of cash from defending drug dealers while deluding himself he is working to protect civil liberties. |
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Audiences can be jaded when it comes to horror novels, as they are used to jolting films. |
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I may not be the target audience for this breezy reality series, but I'm not so jaded and douchey that I can't see it as a surprisingly worthwhile pursuit for some. |
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Celtic soon lost their impetus and had the look of a jaded team. |
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Since it has aired I have been on tour and I am well jaded from it all. |
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As a direct result, a jaded criminal leaps from the back seat and slips a mickey into their beer while distracting them with a riveting game of chance. |
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They didn't even have an old jaded milk snake lying around the place. |
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A pair of jaded barmen served the local brew, Biere Niger, while to another side of the pool a chef fanned away at a charcoal brazier to provide brochette aperitifs. |
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Yes I am a pedantic conspiracy theorist, or jaded old cynic for short. |
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Take an extraordinary artistic heritage, the luxury of precious metals and priceless gems and an environment that can make even the most jaded shopper quiver with excitement. |
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Tommy is a jaded veteran attracted to his father's sexy trophy wife. |
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They were drinkable, but their coarseness soon jaded the palate. |
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In a din of cranky, snarky, jaded, and occasionally even lazy late-night talk show hosts, he radiates pure joy. |
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Alabamans have long held a jaded but honest view of politicians. |
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How do we take people who are jaded, desensitized, and make them care about crime? |
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However, there is one lot at Phillips de Pury that would make even the most jaded art collector do a double take. |
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She is completely unselfconscious, and a natural for television, and enjoys herself so thoroughly as to be a sight for sore eyes and jaded viewers. |
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To a jaded eye it looked like a mass failure of imagination. |
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I popped my head on the pillow early last night, feeling tired and jaded, and hoping that the negatives of the day would be cancelled out by a good night's sleep. |
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Life without restriction is, colorless, jaded, and uninspired. |
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In the hands of lesser songsmiths, such lines would inevitably sound like so much rot, but Gough has a peculiar charm about him that gradually disarms the jaded listener. |
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And there you are, years later, a jaded, affectless, neurotic, disenchanted, sad person. |
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The jaded actress gets yanked out of her state of limbo when she abandons herself to an affair with Tom, an American about the same age as her son, Roger. |
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She was a novelty item, presented in gaudy wrapping paper by a desperate John McCain to a jaded mainstream media. |
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The shenanigans of Intimacy will shake any jaded theater fan from nudity ennui. |
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You would think after 20 years he would be jaded, but not a bit of it. |
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Naivete is so unbecoming, especially in the jaded entertainment industry. |
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So, why is it, then that are there so few movies lately that are not jaded, tawdry, humorlessly moralistic, or amorally violent? |
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Now, he says, we are all so jaded that we are almost unshockable. |
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The brave risk of such small-scale impeccability and tastefulness lies in the possibility of underwhelming jaded ears, but the restraint is rewarding and laudable. |
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So we take it for granted in many ways, and so we are jaded by all the great discoveries. |
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We are now so jaded about the Affordable Care Act that it has lost the ability to shock us. |
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She is restless, seriously jaded and weary of the word processor. |
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I mean that it was a serious attempt to make meaningful acknowledgment of his concern for art history without renouncing his painstakingly constructed, jaded persona. |
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Ironically, this coincides with feeling jaded about said entree. |
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In the second game, Lad looked fresher and more formidable while Rane appeared jaded and soon faded away conceding a string of soft points. |
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Perhaps there is something in the notion that jaded chasers have their enthusiasm for the job reawoken. |
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The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, either is disabled for the future, or else checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after. |
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At the time I was a wide-eyed freshman, but I was soon to grow jaded and cynical. |
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Our teams were now considerably jaded, and we found it necessary to make frequent halts and tarryings for the purpose of recruiting them. |
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The scenarios described above are enough to disturb even the most jaded. |
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She's crude, jaded, pessimistic and, most importantly, outlandishly funny. |
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Canal barging cruises in France Even the most jaded and cosmopolitan travel writers tend to rave when it comes to canal barging cruises in France. |
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The 'bumsicle', as the jaded hospital doctors called him, had been frozen to the sidewalk and it took him and his partner a real solid effort to pry him off. |
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There's the barman at a Prohibition speakeasy easing the passage of bad booze across jaded palettes with the help of a sugar cube soaked on Angostura bitters yarn. |
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Eleven-year-old Whitney is entering her 12th foster home and she is jaded. |
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It bears no real resemblance to that attitude of negativity and jaded scornfulness that sees the worst of intentions behind the apparent good motives of others. |
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A good debut by professor Paul McEuen who showcases some deft writing skills along with a cool plot to give us a smooth technothriller for jaded fans of this sub-genre. |
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Jaded juniors signed in, dumped their belongings in dormitory common rooms, and gallivanted out to Prospect Avenue. |
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Jaded synths and multi-tracked harmonies lurk above a razor-fine piano note until the vocals lift into a Franciscan chant of helpless beauty. |
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Jaded cinemagoers know that this late in the summer the chances for high quality popcorn movies have dropped to almost zero. |
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Jaded by the excesses of a prodigal youth in English society at home and on the Continent, he is at first merely anxious to relieve his ennui by touring the countryside. |
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