Lomanesque

Renny works on the tenth floor and this morning she navigates the maze of cubicles like a well trained lab rat, her face set in a Lomanesque expression of one continuing to work long after the job has lost its excitement.

Rather incredibly, Mills recommended that white-collar Americans adopt a kind of Lomanesque hopelessness and despair, as such a perspective at least acknowledged the unfortunate realities of being middle class in postwar America.