blasé, descend

Neighbors in Palm Beach See an Upside to All the Clamor
A security cordon and news trucks descended on the area around the president-elect’s Florida resort, but many residents were blasé about the activity.

The modern city was transforming humans, giving them a new relationship to time and space, inculcating in them a "blasé attitude", and altering fundamental notions of freedom and being:

descend

dɪˈsɛnd/

verb

1. 1.

   move or fall downwards.

   "the aircraft began to descend"

   synonyms:

   go down, come down; More
2. 2.

   make a sudden attack on.

   "the militia descended on Rye"

blasé

ˈblɑːzeɪ/

adjective

1. unimpressed with or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before.

   "she was becoming quite blasé about the dangers"