nil admirari
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Well then, you member of the nil admirari society, I can venture to tell my second piece of news without fear of causing you any special agitation.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
The look of nil admirari boredom slowly faded from the face of the smart and dapper Brigade-Major, and for a while it displayed quite human emotions.
From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren
Lady Brassey evidently belongs not to the nil admirari school, but enjoys keenly and heartily everything that is fresh and new—a bright bit of colour or a picturesque detail.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams
Her manner was of the nil admirari sort, and her voice what Annie afterward described as mortuary.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various
The cult of nil admirari reaches its highest pitch of prosperity in the cow-countries, and Johnny knew that it was for him to broach tidings unasked.
From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
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