How To Use Apathy In A Sentence
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Far from being sunk in unenquiring apathy, the suburbs are in constant flux.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Some people exude outright disinterest and apathy towards their country's films.
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The issue of student apathy has been tossed around a lot this past couple weeks.
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With a federal election looming, a new organisation says they are tackling the heart of youth voter apathy.
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That is why it said that the opposite of love is not hate but indifference, our apathy to act, our coldness in commitment.
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Now, Obama's election promises revolved, exactly, around the hope of doing away with the objectivization of political life and its corollaries: disenchantment, voter apathy, and nihilism.
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And it was nothing more, -- would have been a whit roused from its apathy, by the information that the primrose is a Dicotyledonous Exogen, with a monopetalous corolla and central placentation.
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
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She'd be forgiven for ranting even a bit more about voter apathy, but she wisely takes the high road in describing the disenfranchised young women who reject much of the rhetoric of their feminist foremothers.
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Apathy was so widespread that we had to cut the number of polling stations there.
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If you've ever despaired over the misuses and misunderstandings, and just plain apathy around punctuation these days (errant apostrophes et al.) then this book will delight you.
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But, equally, it is unfair to accuse them of making political apathy into a norm.
Politics, Planning and the State
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I meant to post this yesterday, but apathy repeatedly bludgeoned me over the head with a large fluffy pillow.
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The implications of political apathy and cowardice are all the more significant for these revealing admissions.
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They shared, for the most part, my apathy and were rather indifferent to the goings on in this ‘hybrid’ sport.
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With the imperial household out of the way, the Senate enfeebled by dissension and apathy, the civil service terror-stricken, and the military under flabby command, the throne seemed well within Faustinus's grasp.
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You need to be fervent to shift the forces of apathy and disempowerment in the global entertainment culture.
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So irrepressible in youth is the thrust to become," one specialist has warned, "that it will surface somehow, if not in constructive self-expression, then in wilful vandalism or defiant apathy or even suicide as an ultimate, tragic expression of self-determination.
Our Responsibility to Youth
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It's a sneering analysis of the British political apathy that was prevalent at the time, and a blimmin' good indie-rock choon, too.
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Even the seating plan, though, underlines one important reason for voter apathy.
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Indeed, without the apathy now afflicting the union movement, he might not be in his job.
The Sun
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His crusade against the government apathy towards ex-soldiers and their families is continuing even at the age of 81.
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Due to infrequent maintenance in recent decades, many of the city's grand structures are in terminal decay, undone by the vandalism of official apathy.
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This has inspired overwhelming feelings of apathy and cynicism, particularly with regards to accountability.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has a sense of something slightly more active than mere apathy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Extreme poverty had reduced them to a state of apathy.
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Plus, any band who produce We Care A Lot, a brutally fun hymn for the apathy generation is bound to grab any world-weary fifteen year old by the scruff of the neck.
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Is it ignorance or apathy?
Times, Sunday Times
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Concern was expressed at that time about voter apathy and adversarial politics where young people felt that there was little difference between political parties.
Times, Sunday Times
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Regardless of temperature, blizzards, or general apathy, the tinsel is tossed the first day of December.
‘Tis the Season @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy
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The handling of relief and rehabilitation matters by the various successive Governments reveal a sadistic apathy as if some weird exclusivist outlook has gripped the State functioning both in the state as well as in the centre.
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Ugh, you brutes!" exclaimed Quashy, referring to a number of urubu vultures which stood on the shells, all more or less gorged, some still tearing sleepily at the meat, others standing in apoplectic apathy, quite unable to fly.
The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America
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However, the findings are a reminder of why now — more than ever — we must refuse to succumb to political apathy and laissez-faire demagoguery.
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How could such euphoria and triumphalism end only two years later in the political cul-de-sac of voter apathy?
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I have heard therapists say matter-of-factly that in old people, withdrawal, depression, and apathy are normal.
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We all experience apathy in its milder forms from time to time.
Know Your Own Mind
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But regardless of endless Government and opposition bickering on the matter - or maybe because of it - there is still a huge amount of public apathy on this referendum.
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In his manner there was nothing of the supercilious apathy which characterizes the dandy introduced to some one whom he doubts if he can nod to from the bow-window at White's, -- none of such vulgar coxcombries had Lord Castleton; and yet a young gentleman more emphatically coxcomb it was impossible to see.
The Caxtons — Volume 11
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The biggest hurdle he faces may be apathy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Patients with the myotonic dystrophy type 1 exhibit cognitive and behavioral abnormalities including mental retardation, visuo-spatial memory deficits, apathy, anxiety, hypersomnolence, autism, depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders
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Criticism can so easily turn into apathy, as disillusioned people become convinced that nothing can be done.
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So, whereas what was required under a dictatorship was exceptional courage, what citizens in democracies have to do is overcome apathy and inertia.
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There is nothing worse than apathy.
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‘We're against apathy,’ he says, setting the juice aside. Renewed health and vigor seems to flow into him as he warms to his topic.
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Repression after a while does not need imposition by the regime, it is more effective when self-imposed through fear, resignation and apathy.
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The reaction to John Prescott's proposals for regional assemblies has run the gamut from apathy to antagonism.
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Being silent can be a mode of resistance, respect,[Sentence dictionary] apathy or acquiescence.
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Hidden beneath the mask of apathy, there is an unsuspected energy and a great human, moral and spiritual charge.
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It has a sense of something slightly more active than mere apathy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Collective apathy towards the problems faced by our nation stems from the burden of self-aggrandizement.
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Osteopathy, chiropractic, naprapathy, neurotherapy and spondylotherapy, as we have learned, are various systems of maipulative treatment which have been devised mainly to correct spinal and other bony lesions, shrinkage and contracture of muscles, ligaments and other connective tissues.
Nature Cure
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It risks stirring little except an intense public apathy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Among other reasons, I'd be too afraid that people will get lulled into apathy again if reports about possible terrorist attempts get squelched.
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Ganapathy, the general secretary, the supreme leader of the Maoists made it clear recently that his war against the government would only intensify if it doesn't stop what he calls the facilitation of the plunder of Chhattisgarh.
Archive 2006-07-01
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In terms of voter turnout, it appears that the apathy of the nation's youth was as big a problem as old bigots.
Times, Sunday Times
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The biggest hurdle he faces may be apathy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Given the usual investor apathy, 12 per cent may suffice to call off the marriage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despondency and political apathy are not characteristic of people in the grip of nationalist zeal.
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The various modern systems of spinal manipulation, namely, osteopathy, chiropractic, naprapathy, neuropathy, spondylotherapy and our own neurotherapy, are all of distinctly American origin.
Nature Cure
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Indeed, without the apathy now afflicting the union movement, he might not be in his job.
The Sun
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Voter apathy must be banished from next month's General Election, according to a York-based action group.
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Here was no streak of fat, no apathy, only a lazy, good-natured play of gloves and tricks, with a brusk stiffness and harsh sharpness in the contacts that he knew belonged only to the trained and instinctive fighting man.
Chapter II
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I no longer maintain the harsh criticism that students harbour apathy or laziness.
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MTV back in the 1980s has exploded into the easy access of Youtube. 1980s amoralism and early 21st century paranoia induce the same political apathy and numbness.
Archive 2010-01-01
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We may not be able to institute change, but apathy is the death of all dialogue and debate.
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Alas, Bleuler's views were largely neglected, probably because schizophrenic patients with negative symptoms (such as affect, anergia, apathy) make it easy to assume that they have underdeveloped emotional experiences.
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Once defeated, he sank into apathy.
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His apathy just made her even more frustrated.
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Electoral apathy is of great concern and seems to reflect the disconnection and disenchantment that many doctors feel.
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Sterility and sexual apathy ran rampant after the Last War, and sex was encouraged to promote repopulation.
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She would heed their call and they would immediately retreat into sudden apathy.
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Considering Lovecraft's view of cosmic apathy and rejection of Judaeo-Christian mythology, how do you justify your title's cultural baggage?
Archive 2010-02-01
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In dealing with apathy, it helps to realize that what looks like boredom often is fear instead.
Christianity Today
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The maintenance of equilibrium between limited pluralisms limits the effectiveness of the mobilization and can lead to apathy.
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When mid-table apathy sets in, I force him to undertake a rigorous training session which I, naturally, oversee.
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But the possibility that apathy may subvert anarchy does not absolve its inciters from responsibility.
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Through misplaced moralism, political expediency, or apathy, America is ruinously mishandling the underground economy.
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Apathy is the long-standing curse of British local democracy.
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A reaction to these difficulties may be withdrawal, apathy, or acting out behaviour.
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Methods : Utilize the naprapathy to cure palm joint parenchyma trauma.
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I doubt that low turnouts across Europe provide evidence of terminal apathy among the voters, far less that they signal the end of liberal democracy as we know it - as one commentator suggested last week.
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This shows apathy on the part of the Government to the problems of the common man.
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Such is the official apathy that drought and food scarcities have found little space for intellectual discussions and strategic planning.
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The shoes are the telling detail, proof that the song's protagonist has slipped from stability into a downward spiral of apathy and self-abnegation.
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What can average citizens do in the midst of such public apathy and lean government support?
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The various publics, having other interests or no inclination toward foreign matters short of war, tended toward apathy.
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Nature's primal fury, man's unbridled fear, political apathy, bureaucratic inertia, rural angst, urban unconcern all found their way into the cascade of grief unleashed by the twenty-one poets.
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So, as distaste and apathy mar the health of the body politic, what remedies can be found?
Times, Sunday Times
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Most impressive of all, perhaps, is evidence that the war is radicalising students out of the political apathy that has characterised them throughout the 90s.
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Nor did any lachrymose letter in the Times predict a speedy downfall of the Empire for this apathy of its local guardians.
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The one thing I'm taking away from this experience is that apathy and passiveness don't make anything better.
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In my study that week, you could smell the stench of apathy.
Christianity Today
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At a time when voter apathy and distrust of politicians is a concern on the lips of almost the entire chattering class, this is a measure sure to help solidify all these problems.
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a foreign nation to show that apathy to the answers of the President, which are more thrasonic than the addresses.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3
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Sometimes the speech is adequate in amount but conveys little information because it is overconcrete, overabstract, repetitive, or stereotyped (poverty of content). amentia Subnormal development of the mind, with particular reference to intellectual capacities; a type of severe mental retardation. anosognosia The apparent unawareness of or failure to recognize one†™ s own functional defect apathy Lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern.
Think Progress » Bush Claims Program That Monitors Tens of Millions of Americans ‘Strictly Targets Al Qaeda’
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Secular politics have become boring to many people, evoking apathy rather than fervour.
Times, Sunday Times
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We all experience apathy in its milder forms from time to time.
Know Your Own Mind
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And it was nothing more, -- would have been a whit roused from its apathy by the information that the primrose is a Dicotyledonous Exogen, with a monopetalous corolla and central placentation.
Science & Education
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The apathy and lack of compassion he describes, are also present in our own US health care system.
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Apathy was probably the word she learned in school that day or had read in the latest book she was devouring.
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There are three reasons why breaking through the barriers of misinformation and apathy are especially crucial now.
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At a time when the nation is plagued more by aliteracy than literacy - that is, an apathy to reading rather than the inability - we continue to advocate for reading as both an essential part of our culture, and an endangered one.
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Some people exude outright disinterest and apathy towards their country's films.
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There is also some concern that people in many of the new developments within the county may give way to apathy due to an unestablished affiliation with the area.
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Whenever the general apathy characterising public servants gives way to zealousness, we smell something fishy.
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Today, the profound thinker turns his attention to political apathy, and sees something dark filling the void.
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In view of the readily apparent down sides of the "drug war" and seeing potential new sources of revenue and apathy, they will soon "decriminalize" marijuana.
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It did not come on time, and in the voice of the garageman in charge I sensed that apathy, hopelessness, and submission to fate which had infected even the lower ranks of the administrative staff.
My Life
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The article broadens out from these beginnings into a savage attack on both political apathy and nakedly self-interested politicians.
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In "Lucretius," Tennyson shows the moral apathy of materialism by letting us look on at a suicidal death, and hear the cry, half-rage and half-despair, "What is duty?" and in that fated cry, atheism has run its course.
A Hero and Some Other Folks
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We tend to view the impoverished with fear, discomfort, apathy, annoyance, callousness or resentment.
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However, we must also look at how much apathy there is within our community towards local politicians.
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Still, it is hard to be optimistic about the Cup in the face of such public apathy.
Times, Sunday Times
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In parrhesia, the speaker chooses "truth instead of falsehood or silence, the risk of death instead of life and security, criticism instead of flattery and moral duty instead of self-interest and moral apathy".
Let the law save whistleblowers, not silence them | Nick Cohen
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Such attitudes can only lead to apathy.
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This may also be due to the apathy, bordering on torpor, concerning most elements of conventional politics and theories of power.
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This doesn't seem to have come from apathy or resignation at the inevitability of this war.
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The differences between the groups in pain and disability considered over one year were statistically significant favoring naprapathy (p [less than or equal to] 0.005).
BioMed Central - Latest articles
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What is the difference between revolution and murder and how can you rise above apathy in a world where there is nothing left to believe in?
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Your hand lifts us from the depths of despair, the depths of apathy and depression, and the depths of fear.
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He was sunk in apathy after his failure.
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It was a dismal campaign characterised by public apathy and political evasiveness.
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When we see our politicians acting in such a puerile and childish manner is it any wonder the country is awash with apathy and cynicism?
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Labour election strategists, heaving a sigh of relief that the fuel protest seems to have been defused, are now worrying about the apathy factor in the forthcoming British election.
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Emotional detachment and apathy helped him through a difficult family life but sabotage his chances as an adult.
Christianity Today
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Sometimes the speech is adequate in amount but conveys little information because it is overconcrete, overabstract, repetitive, or stereotyped (poverty of content). amentia Subnormal development of the mind, with particular reference to intellectual capacities; a type of severe mental retardation. anosognosia The apparent unawareness of or failure to recognize one’s own functional defect apathy Lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 11, 2006
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The fall in the number of people voting has very little to do with inconvenience, apathy or laziness in the electorate.
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The race does not appear to be anywhere near close, which explains the voter apathy about these by-elections.
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In this day and age of political apathy, there's at least one group I respect.
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By the fall of 1956, the movement was in full decline-its strength sapped by controversy, petty infighting, and public apathy.
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Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, this beautifully animated short ruminates on the topics of isolation, ignorance, loss and apathy.
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Seeing that fewer than half the EU electorate picked these MEP characters, is it any wonder that apathy abounds?
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The main effects of hunger are apathy and disease - bilharzia, cholera, tuberculosis, HIV-Aids.
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Faced with consumer ennui and apathy, Nike has decided to engage in a desperate effort to regain mindshare.
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And it was nothing more, -- would have been a whit roused from its apathy, by the information that the primrose is a Dicotyledonous Exogen, with a monopetalous corolla and central placentation.
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
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So now we have voter apathy across the board, adversely affecting both parties, and independent candidates fared worse.
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She came to see me at a local clinic and I was very concerned about her, particularly her very marked apathy.
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Many pastors said they deal with apathy and indifference.
Christianity Today
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There is a lot of apathy and some residents are only just beginning to realise how much it will affect them.
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These channels have greater effectiveness in dealing with resistance or apathy on the part of the communicatee.
Diffusion of Innovations
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It has a sense of something slightly more active than mere apathy.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this year's show looks set to stir little but intense public apathy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The early clinical picture may be complicated by comorbid depression, apathy, anxiety, and anhedonia.
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In its more extreme forms apathy is more disturbing for others than for the sufferer.
Know Your Own Mind
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Despite the apparent public apathy toward online convention coverage, all of the network TV websites and a dozen or so other political sites and e-zines continued to devour enormous amounts of bandwidth with gavel-to-gavel webcasts.
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At root, fascism feeds on apathy and despair, the sense that a society so fundamentally dysfunctional, so paralytically broken, cannot be set right.
Bradley Burston: Will Israel Grant Asylum to Fascism?
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Unlike the domesticated animal, whose chief characteristics are cowardice, stupidity, and apathy, the wild variety is remarkable for its sagacity and admirably developed senses.
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I simply don't believe (the term for this is "apatheism" - portmanteau of "apathy" and "atheism"), and it's none of my business whether or not you do.
Diary of a Teenage Atheist
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Deficiency results in a condition called pellagra, the symptoms of which are a dark, scaly skin rash, a bright red tongue, vomiting, diarrhea, apathy, depression, disorientation, and memory loss.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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Worker apathy has been and remains rampant.
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Depression, dullness, apathy - these were the beasts I could no longer afford to feed.
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When we see our politicians acting in such a puerile and childish manner is it any wonder the country is awash with apathy and cynicism?
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For many complex reasons, there is a dangerous sense of political apathy across Europe.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has a sense of something slightly more active than mere apathy.
Times, Sunday Times
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First of all, fatness equals nonactivity in many people's eyes… not simply laziness, but mental inactivity, indolence, apathy.
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All has passed, unregretted as unseen; or if the apathy be ever shaken off, even for an instant, it is only by what is gross, or what is extraordinary; and yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, not in the clash of the hail, nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed.
The Ontario High School Reader
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The campaign failed because of public apathy.
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We all know there are laws that apply to planning applications, although if the suffragettes and Chartists had adopted an attitude of apathy and did not stand up to be counted all those years ago, we would not now have the vote.
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From this deplorable apathy Cortes was roused by fresh advices urging his presence in Mexico.
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Slaughter's words don't imply malice or callousness or even apathy.
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I was reading about voter apathy, particularly amongst the young, the other day.
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She sees corporate apathy in size - 12 clodhoppers.
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The response of students to it should banish slanders about ‘student apathy’.
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His book, Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government, is a frontal attack on cynicism and the crisis of apathy which is corrosively distorting American government into an agent of and for the powerful few.
Jonathan Lewis: New Citizen Center Powers Up
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‘The biggest problem in politics at the moment is disillusion, cynicism, apathy,’ he recognises.
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Given the usual investor apathy, 12 per cent may suffice to call off the marriage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Combined manual therapy, like naprapathy, is effective in the short and in the long term, and might be considered for patients with non-specific back and/or neck pain.
BioMed Central - Latest articles
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The Roman Catholic Church, which, like Nietzsche, knows something about conviction, has a name for this apathy: acedia, which is laziness of spirit, idleness of soul.
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We can only hope that the sequel brings us something more than angriness, than the apathy and vanity involved in the idea that someone else will fix things for us.
Derek Beres: The Near-Transformation of Erykah Badu
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And our apathy is the reason why nothing has changed.
Fiorina: Obama might have to 'eat his words' on health reform
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I wonder how long it will take for normally intelligent and rational well educated people to become obsessed over the offhand remarks of moon hoax conspiracy theorists, while simultaneously neglecting (or even worse, fostering) the long term decadal downward social, political and educational trends which have created a fertile environment for the intellectual ignorance and apathy allowing nutty theories to prosper, and scientifically valid and interesting speculative theories like extraterrestrial life and ET visitation to be ridiculed.
Apollo Landing Site Images - NASA Watch
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If McKibben highlights pride and avarice, R. R. Reno contends that the most corrosive vice of our age is sloth, spiritual apathy, what the monks called ‘the noonday devil’ of acedia.
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As these exams don't count towards my final degree and I need to have scarcely even browsed any Classical texts to pass them I feel an utter apathy and lack of motivation.
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There is widespread apathy among the electorate.
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Political apathy - you're not likely to see the student body at a march.
Times, Sunday Times
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The appearance of the opening duck seemed first to arouse the Hurons from their apathy.
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Not only that, but many observers noted that the low turn-out on elections day may be put down to the apathy of many potential voters.
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Is our apathy is another example of American Exceptionalism or is apathy a global phenomenon?
Howard Steven Friedman: The United States of Apathy's Motto is We Don't Care
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Another reason for voter apathy is a lack of confidence in politicians.
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He also signalled the need for politicians to combat public apathy by re-establishing trust.
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Sometimes the speech is adequate in amount but conveys little information because it is overconcrete, overabstract, repetitive, or stereotyped (poverty of content). amentia Subnormal development of the mind, with particular reference to intellectual capacities; a type of severe mental retardation. anosognosia The apparent unawareness of or failure to recognize one†™ s own functional defect apathy Lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern.
Think Progress » Bush Claims Program That Monitors Tens of Millions of Americans ‘Strictly Targets Al Qaeda’
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The amount of games was increased in 2006 with no sign of public apathy.
Times, Sunday Times
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From this state of repose, amounting almost to apathy respecting the past, his thoughts were carried forward to the future, which, in spite of all that existed to overcloud the prospect, glittered with such hues as, under much happier auspices, his unstimulated imagination had not been able to produce, even in its most exalted state.
The Talisman
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Perhaps my recent attack of apathy isn't so atypical after all.
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Apathy -- ataraxy -- complete indifference -- is the highest aim after which the soul of the skeptic strives.
A Thorny Path — Volume 08
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So Davis will begin his second term under clouds of apathy, if not antipathy.
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We all experience apathy in its milder forms from time to time.
Know Your Own Mind
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I have heard therapists say matter-of-factly that in old people, withdrawal, depression, and apathy are normal.
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Nation's fate we are ungoverned and unled, and to all appearance we are content to be so, and the leader-writers trained in the tradition of respectable formalism interpret the Nation's apathy as fortitude.
Lessons of the War Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith
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And as a result, in place of the kindled hopes and artificially aroused excitement comes disillusion and apathy.
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showed a bovine apathy
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To admit that we do not know is a costly ascesis, not least because knowledge would give us power for good as well as evil, the power to comfort the grieving, to reassure the afflicted, and to shore up hope and fortify the weak against apathy.
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Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
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Politicians blame the public for their apathy at election times but the public think it is the other way round.
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No wonder that our apathy annoyed the parties, who had so just a reason to "be vaunty" of so expensive an establishment!
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
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How could such euphoria and triumphalism end only two years later in the political cul-de-sac of voter apathy?
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The reasons for this apparent apathy are multifold: perhaps public expectations for reform went way beyond Mousavi and Karoubi's major focus, which was primarily just the outcome of Iran's 2009 elections.
Camelia Entekhabi-Fard: Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi: The Two Forgotten Men
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R. R. Reno's connection of an overblown fear of suffering with acedia or spiritual apathy in ‘Fighting the Noonday Devil’ (August / September) gave me an ‘aha!’
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I find it very difficult not to sink into a state of apathy when watching that, because it's the same day after day.
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I am saying we are negative minded and that such negativity much of which is derided from the press leads to apathy, lack of respect and morale attitude amongst us.
You and who’s army? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Responsible adults have been caught up in bystander apathy, so underdeveloped teen age brains, I just don’t know.
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