How To Use Disinterest In A Sentence
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Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified.
War-Time Financial Problems
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People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
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No surer sign of a female character's evilness is his disinterest or refusal to reproduce.
Michael Giltz: Halloween DVDs: The Exorcist, Psycho, Troll 2 and More
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Prayer, and receive the Sacrament every day; because they do not subject and submit themselves wholly and entirely to him that hath Light, nor deny and conquer themselves, nor give up themselves totally to God, with a perfect divesting and disinteresting of themselves: In a word, till the Soul be purified in the Fire of Inward Pain, it will never get to a State of
The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland.
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Instead, his dull eyes flicked disinterestedly from ice house to ice house, noting the plume of smoke drifting from each.
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Small wonder younger people are so disinterested in serving the community.
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From the beginning, they have echoed their disinterest in matters like chart placings and mass popularity.
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An adjudicator must be, and must be seen to be, disinterested, unbiased and impartial.
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Their close and financially rewarding relationship was sufficient to call into question the independence and disinterest of the directors.
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He was totally without ostentation or pretension and totally disinterested in wealth, honours or managerial power.
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Kant defined "disinterestedness in aesthetic appreciation" as fundamental and important characteristics in "Critique of Judgment", which was also seen as the "quality" in beauty.
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Stephanie said she didn't mind and gazed out of the window, feigning disinterest.
CHAMELEON
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AMERICAN IDIOTS yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'AMERICAN IDIOTS'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The American people\'s ignorance, stupidity, and disinterest in the governance of this nation have allowed an oligopoly of politicians, bankers, and powerful corporations to seize control of the country and loot its riches for their personal gain.
AMERICAN IDIOTS
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Some people exude outright disinterest and apathy towards their country's films.
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An election that was initially greeted with general disinterest has since been transformed into one that has gripped the nation, due in no small part to the jolt of energy provided by the unexpected, and game changing, emergence of Nick Clegg and the 'Cleggmania' he inspired.
UK Election: Candidates Make Final Push For Votes
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With this new and bold initiative, we have shown to the world that Indian women are not politically passive or disinterested in public life.
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If, however, we include in the term morality the transitory display of certain qualities such as abnegation, self-sacrifice, disinterestedness, devotion, and the need of equity, we may say, on the contrary, that crowds may exhibit at times a very lofty morality.
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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Her deportment was the subject of reams of scurrility in prose and verse: it lowered her in the opinion of some whose esteem she valued; nor did the world know, till she was beyond the reach of praise and censure, that the conduct which had brought on her the reproach of levity and insensibility was really a signal instance of that perfect disinterestedness and selfdevotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
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As things stand in British arts, only an autist would dare to profess disinterest in diversity.
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The peculiarly disinterested institution of science develops only in special circumstances and remains constantly vulnerable.
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It is to the disinterest of the public.
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So, there's been no break, no lull for people to get disinterested in it.
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Well, in situations like this, i'll just push my hand through and grab the pole, and then look away disinterestedly as the person who is leaning on the pole turns around to look at me.
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Felix, though an offshoot from a far more recent point in the devolution of theology than his father, was less self-sacrificing and disinterested.
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Hitchcock seems disinterested in the relationship, tacking it on to fulfill audience expectations.
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A kickball fell from her finespun fingers, bouncing disinterestedly away at an oblique angle, a distant shadow from a 767 drifting across its path.
Again
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_spavin_, during the last hunting season, he was sold for a __machiner; but being since fired and turned out, he had come up all right, and was now, according to coachee's disinterested opinion, one of the best hunters in the kingdom.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
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Stephanie said she didn't mind and gazed out of the window, feigning disinterest.
CHAMELEON
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He seemed disinterested in what I was saying.
Times, Sunday Times
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She has often interpreted the unexpressive and disinterested look on my face to mean I don't care about her - when that is not true.
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He seemed disinterested in what I was saying.
Times, Sunday Times
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Worst of all, he seemed disinterested.
The Sun
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He will be able to pick serious and competent people who will do a disinterested and professional job as UN rapporteurs.
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However, touch-screen voters were EIGHT times more likely not to register any vote at all -- obviously a sign of error on the machine's part rather than disinterest from the voter in the booth.
07/28/2004
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A few brave and honest voices across the political spectrum spoke up, struggling to be heard through a fog of disinterest.
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I summoned one hundred and twenty per cent disinterest, achieved by thinking of chiropody.
A DARKENING STAIN
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Several scholars have argued that the CLC was either unaware or genuinely disinterested in constitutional issues and therefore did not play an important role in the patriation debate.
Archive 2007-04-01
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In conclusion, fellow citizens, allow me to invoke in behalf of your deliberations that spirit of conciliation and disinterestedness which is the gift of patriotism.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
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They used the funds placed at their disposition in ways that were hardly conspicuous for spiritual disinterestedness.
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I wanted to ask him how he keeps doing what he does every day, even when his students seemed completely disinterested in the things that light him up.
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Their close and financially rewarding relationship was sufficient to call into question the independence and disinterest of the directors.
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This combination of disinterest and absolute power slowly cripples the actual goal of having an easily accessible and open network available.
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His lips curved into a knowing smile though Georgia tried to keep her expression as disinterested as possible.
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If, however, we include in the term morality the transitory display of certain qualities such as abnegation, self-sacrifice, disinterestedness, devotion, and the need of equity, we may say, on the contrary, that crowds may exhibit at times a very lofty morality.
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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Many outsiders conclude from this teaching that the conception of the world as something unreal lies at the root of the so-called disinterestedness preached in India.
Sadhana : the realisation of life
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What is morally odious is the cool and disinterested way in which the commentariat is discussing what might fairly be described as racial cleansing.
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Personal disinterest in a programme content will help your objectivity in assessing its potential for your public relations purposes.
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I find the disinteresting children in the video quite fascinating.
Archive 2009-05-01
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The whole side of life of which art is the flower requires something which may be called disinterestedness, a capacity for direct enjoyment without thought of tomorrow's problems and difficulties.
Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism
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Mr. Albert led the slouchy, disinterested crowd in a round of applause for Holly.
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Who better to instigate this investigation than a disinterested neutral party like the Sierra Club?
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Addressing an audience that was torn between the demythologizing heritage of the enlightenment on the one hand, and attempts to reassert traditional moral and religious principles on the other, Scott combines the economic amoralism of progressive historical discourse with the romance of disinterested personal virtue.
Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism
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I'd say that's about as far from a disinterested, objective party as you could possibly find to provide analysis.
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Perhaps it's his obvious disinterest towards talking about himself, which permeates our interview, that is the most telling.
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They will be bored by the exposition, disinterested in "geeky" rationalisation, by diagrams and equations and dates and places laid out in tiresome detail.
Archive 2006-07-01
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The fact Liberia has no oil seems to explain foreign disinterest in its internal affairs.
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I paid my bill there, which was imagined with scrupulous fullness to the last possible _centimo, _ and so I may disinterestedly declare that the Eitz is the only hotel in Madrid where you get the worth of your money, even when the money seems more but scarcely is so.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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My daughter, on the other hand, manifests an altogether remarkable disinterest ," he chuckled.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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We've all perfected the wasp-wave; you flick your hand with a disinterested languor - just think Oscar Wilde dismissing a jejune insult - and the wind distracts the wasp for a second or two.
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My daughter, on the other hand, manifests an altogether remarkable disinterest ," he chuckled.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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But I just had to get over it, and the crew is totally disinterested.
The Sun
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Let's bring back some healthy disinterest into governing.
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I was determined to remain a disinterested, objective observer in order to respond to student questions or problems.
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Completely disinterested in it.
Times, Sunday Times
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That the ideal in scientific inquiry would posit the existence of a disinterested, detached, neutral observer is itself reflective of the androcentric nature of knowledge creation.
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The company went so far as to publish its own statement of disinterest in the global credential.
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The first of these defines aesthetic appreciation as _disinterested interest, _ gratuitously identifying self-interest with the practical pursuit of advantages we have not yet got; and overlooking the fact that such appreciation implies enjoyment and is so far the very reverse of disinterested.
The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
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The problem with sorting out proposed educational reforms is that the nostrums, strictures, and recommendations too often reflect personal dispositions more than disinterested analysis.
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He was really ‘above it all’ you might say, with a very disinterested, unprejudiced mind.
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Despite asking for the manager and reiterating my claim to them I was met with utter disinterest.
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It's hard to think of a performance by an actor billed as the star of the picture that is any worse than the muttered, uncharismatic, disinterested effort delivered by Ice T in this film.
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Her advice appeared to be disinterested.
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Downing Street have released the initial details of Prime Minister Gollum Brown's Cabinet reshuffle to awed disinterest from the world.
Archive 2009-06-01
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He was totally disinterested in us.
The Sun
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Now, this notion of disinterested advice may also repay a claimant's examination.
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It will form here-after a pleasing incident in the annals of our Union, giving to real history the intense interest of romance and signally marking the unpurchasable tribute of a great nation's social affections to the disinterested champion of the liberties of human-kind.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
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If you make too little eye contact you may seem disinterested.
Banish Anxiety - how to stop worrying and take charge of your life
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By not allowing Anthony Mascheck undisturbed sharing of his point of view as a former military man, the group demonstrated their disinterest in engaging in a mannerly debate and exposed their true desire to provoke and instigate.
Marco Reininger: ROTC at Columbia University: Regarding the Heckling of a Veteran
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When a comely woman flirts with him at a bar, he acts distracted and disinterested.
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He is no disinterested career diplomat - he's a pro-Saudi, leftist partisan with an ax to grind.
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There are no disembodied brains, divorced from human emotions, hormonal urges and fleshly thoughts, engaged solely in disinterested play of the mind on the eternal verities.
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A disinterested party on orders from the commander must inventory the narcotics monthly.
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The summer that I worked as a surveyor's chainman for my old high school math teacher, I discovered my disinterest in that sort of precision, and I rejoiced when the long, hot and sultry summer ended, allowing me to return to my college studies and more literary pursuits.
Spiders and Wasps
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Self seeking is totally disinterested in serving.
Christianity Today
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Against the explicitly but restrictively political mandates of critical and monumental histories, antiquarian history holds out the ideal of disinterest, even as disinterest is deemed no longer possible.
Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History
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A solicitor can give you disinterested advice. However, in speech it is sometimes used instead of uninterested, although this is thought to be incorrect.
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Almost all the life-writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux [1], are indeed strange insipid creatures; and yet I had rather read the worst of them, than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's, or the other's life of Boileau, where there is such a dull, heavy succession of long quotations of disinteresting passages, that it makes their method quite nauseous.
Life Of Johnson
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Their close and financially rewarding relationship was sufficient to call into question the independence and disinterest of the directors.
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The exception to Balfour's disinterest in social issues was education.
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As Brynor neared, he glanced at each of us in turn with the casual, detached disinterest of a scientist examining a particularly repulsive insect.
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Antsy for success, too much in her head, she considers defection with Merce (Kat Primeau), the singer, sultry and cool, seemingly disinterested, not beyond considering a side deal (or at least a tryst) with a label guy.
James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
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Both critiques centre on unmasking the supposed disinterestedness of the academic establishment by contending that.
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I watched with detached disinterest as Sean and Amber presented themselves to the audience and received their medallions from the organizers.
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His action was not disinterested because he hoped to make money out of the affair.
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If any American has ever, for a moment, admitted the idea of consenting to a separation of the Union, let him read the burning words of this enlightened and disinterested foreigner, and blush for his want of comprehension of the true interests and glory of his country.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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While Diego's father and others fret and fume about the new alcalde, Diego feigns disinterest.
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DID not get in many scoring positions, looked disinterested at times.
The Sun
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‘Simple semantics may help quell patients' fears that they will be seen by a scruffy, disinterested youth who may well later report their intimacies in the bar,’ he writes.
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– Such is the foundation on which stands his pretensions to disinterestedness, which were only assumed to conceal the deep-laid projects of his ambition, and to deceive those whom he afterwards meant to enslave.
Moniteur/Morning Chronicle
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Their close and financially rewarding relationship was sufficient to call into question the independence and disinterest of the directors.
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Smitten by her disinterestedness as well as by her beauty, Lord Clavering would gladly marry her, but is bound by his word plighted to Lord Dunbar's daughter.
Balzac
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I haven’t read the Twelve Days of my absence from CBG yet - the lounge room here has Air Con but the internet Nook in the breezeway has been an oven without the breezes, hence my disinterest in faffing … last I heard she said something about camping.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Sweet jeebus, lookit this mess!
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A solicitor can give you disinterested advice. However, in speech it is sometimes used instead of uninterested, although this is thought to be incorrect.
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Now suppose that voters behave as unselfish, disinterested judges of what is best.
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A lawyer should provide disinterested advice.
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Whether the black poor live or die seems to merit only haughty disinterest and indifference.
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He came on for England against Malta and looked disinterested.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was disinterested, couldn't engage with people from all walks of life in Tasmania.
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It's their one semicommercial riff, and it has always sounded sluggish and disinterested.
Sonic Youth Gets Back, Public Enemy Gets Gamy
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For this disinterested behaviour their reward has been a campaign of vilification and innuendo which has left both of them feeling angry and betrayed.
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These "antirealist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective enquiry.
The Acorn
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Does the discovery and presentation of the truth require disengaged disinterest?
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That part is selfless, both in the sense of being disinterested and in the sense of being detached from personal feeling.
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Projects like the HOTOL spaceplane have been rare exceptions to British disinterest in human spaceflight.
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Generous, too, he appeared to her, in forbearing to apply to Sir Hugh, without her permission; disinterested, in declaring he did not wish for her hand without her heart: and noble, in not seeking her in a clandestine manner, but referring every thing to
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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Similarly the agent in demand can act in ways which seem disinterested or illogical when he is the one that has the top contacts and knows it.
The Secrets of Musical Confidence
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Law's, and literature's, preference for this form of organization are not, however, disinterested and certainly not gender-neutral.
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Abstraction and disinterest were prized over concern, or even fitness with the real world.
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Can this be double-distilled treachery? — or can it be what men call disinterestedness? —
Count Robert of Paris
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“Real intellectuals,” Said writes, “are never more themselves than when, moved by metaphysical passion and disinterested principles of justice and truth, they denounce corruption, defend the weak, defy imperfect or oppressive authority.” (p. 6) Said is uninterested in allying with the victors and the rulers whose very stability he sees as a kind of “state of emergency” for the less fortunate; he chooses instead to account for “the experience of subordination itself, as well as the memory of forgotten voices and persons.” (p. 35)
June « 2006 « Bill Ayers
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When those people find themselves on the spot where news is breaking, their diarising is temporarily elevated to the rank of amateur, supposedly disinterested, eyewitness reporting.
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Its great corresponding defect -- and this is immeasurable -- is its loss in form, in universality, in that disinterestedness which is essential to art.
Personality in Literature
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She even considered a discreet retreat to her own lair, but recognised that she lacked such disinterested nobility.
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Given the buzz surrounding his latest effort, his disinterest is somewhat surprising.
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There is no reason why the relevant disinterested person should not be found elsewhere within the company or, indeed, outside it.
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As a long-time reader/fan of your insights into policy and (dare I say the word) planning, I am always surprised at how disinterested you seem in this issue.
Matthew Yglesias » Wieseltier on the Journalistic Proletariat
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The range of emotions stretched from bored to pensive to disinterested as he took the blows.
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Another aspect of the issue was the disinterest of people in Australia in the observations of those who had had extensive recent experience of Thailand and its neighbours.
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The classical approach emphasizes scholarly disinterestedness and detachment.
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Now far from France, she began to drop the tone of neutral disinterest.
ISAAC CAMPION
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As childish as it sounds, I think my disinterest comes from the lack of physical action in the book.
Confessions of a Comic Book Nerd
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That's because the fault lies with the education system and so one will have to look deep down and find out what's causing this disinterest and hatred towards academics.
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It turns out Wilson wasn't a disinterested nonparticipant, a kindly and even chivalrous guy who was just trying to help out the ladies.
Susan Kim: Menopause: Marketing Fear
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He came on for England against Malta and looked disinterested.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a single summer of public disinterest, ninety million of the Walt Disney Company's simoleons disappeared into a sea of red ink.
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Americans can participate in this process - though it has been a long time now, we have acted with disinterest and imagination before.
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The Ministry of Health showed massive disinterest.
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This view must surely add to growing pressure for a rethink of this process of giving disinterested information to people.
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This calm disinterest is often why many organizations hire arbitrators to help negotiate contracts between say, a union and a company.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2009 » December
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A solicitor can give you disinterested advice. However, in speech it is sometimes used instead of uninterested, although this is thought to be incorrect.
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Some people exude outright disinterest and apathy towards their country's films.
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Mr.P. Cunliffe Owen, familiar with all the minutiæ of previous expositions, declares them supreme "in thoroughness of plan and energy of construction" -- a judgment designed to coyer the whole conception and administration of the exhibition, and one which, coming from a disinterested and competent foreign observer, may be cited as an amply expressive tribute to the zeal and fidelity of those in control.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876
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Leonarde's relative disinterest in her corporeal state could be linked to her proximity to the beatific vision, where such considerations would become insignificant.
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His action was not altogether disinterested.
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Teaching" universities completely disinterested in competitive research can hire absolutely brilliant professors and then overtax them by not giving them support.
Snobby-Nosed Nonsense
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Governments in Australia need to be interested in productivity but they appear fundamentally disinterested.
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To Gaston there was a kind of fascination, an actually aesthetic beauty, in the spectacle of that keen-edged intelligence, dividing evidence so finely, like some exquisite steel instrument with impeccable sufficiency, always leaving the last word loyally to the central intellectual faculty, in an entire disinterestedness.
Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance
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Responding to the concern that the courts had placed too rigid a test on whistleblowers -- a key precedent demands that an employee have access to "irrefragable proof" before being eligible for protection -- the 111th Congress revised the act so that the test is "whether a disinterested observer with knowledge of the essential facts" could conclude with the whistleblower that the alleged violations were made.
Feisal G. Mohamed: "See Something, Say Something" And Impunity for Profiling
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An adjudicator must be, and must be seen to be, disinterested, unbiased and impartial.
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Visual sensibility is a prerequisite of art appreciation, and a genuine aesthetic experience is both self-sufficient and disinterested.
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His action was not disinterested because he hoped to make money out of the affair.
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Suppose that they had seriously endeavored, and had succeeded in the endeavor, to banish the word disinterestedness from the language; had obtained the disuse of all expressions attaching odium to selfishness or commendation to self-sacrifice, or which implied generosity or kindness to be any thing but doing a benefit in order to receive a greater personal advantage in return.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
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DID not get in many scoring positions, looked disinterested at times.
The Sun
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The judgments of disinterested outsiders are likely to be more useful.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have that album as a constant reminder that one can regard an artist's entire canon with disinterest, but love one work with intense fascination.
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But I just had to get over it, and the crew is totally disinterested.
The Sun
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In any event, his estate seems singularly disinterested in pursuing it.
The LNN interviews Paul Blake from ToyVault : The Lovecraft News Network
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Ray McKinnon, who had looked disinterested for much of the first half, began to boss the midfield and a winner for the home side didn't look impossible.
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Diary Entry by Jim Quinn (about the author) yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'AMERICAN IDIOTS'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'The American people\'s ignorance, stupidity, and disinterest in the governance of this nation have allowed an oligopoly of politicians, bankers, and powerful corporations to seize control of the country and loot its riches for their personal gain.
OpEdNews - Diary: AMERICAN IDIOTS
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I phone roughly 150 people and get one ‘maybe’ from a rather disinterested member.
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I'm used to people looking at me in loathing or disinterest.
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The Fourth Amendment does not contemplate the executive officers of Government as neutral and disinterested magistrates.
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Volsci and Samnites, they were, we are told, men disinterested and virtuous.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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But in case anyone gets the idea that this site is doomed to drift off into disrepair and disinterest, hah!
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But if the preliminary declarations of the article (which would formerly have been called the exordium) are so markedly disinterested, what follows is generally much less so.
Time Regained
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It does mean that he is completely blind to the notion of gentile privilege, is completely disinterested in viewing things from a Jewish perspective or taking our voice and experience seriously as something as valuable, and views it as an affront if anyone calls him on it or attempts to inform him that his views are not unimpeachable on the subject.
The Debate Link
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In fact, I think the word I'm looking for is disinterest, in the sense of impartiality.
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He was totally disinterested in us.
The Sun
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Similarly the agent in demand can act in ways which seem disinterested or illogical when he is the one that has the top contacts and knows it.
The Secrets of Musical Confidence
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One has to establish the credibility of the evidence; and the credibility of witnesses always depends on their disinterestedness.
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They manoeuvred against the NHS until Nye Bevan "stuffed their mouths with gold", and doctors should not be mistaken for disinterested observers of the service.
National Health Service: Dogma, democracy and the doctors | Editorial
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First impressions are that it is a joyless, characterless pub, staffed by disinterested graduate students and other ingrates, with bizarrely obscure (but not in a good way) range of beers.
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Critical disinterestedness was more the exception than the rule.
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Only the terminally disinterested, which is to say a vast swath of the "booboisie", march lock step to the mainstream medias pied pipers.
Walter Cronkite: ‘We Are Mired in Stalemate,’ 1968 « Antiwar.com Blog
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Even pretended disinterest can destroy thought, or pretended interest can give room for ideas to coalesce.
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Rugg, as she raised her glass to her lips in completion of it, had not happened to look at Young John; when she was again so overcome by the contemptible comicality of his disinterestedness as to splutter some ambrosial drops of rum and water around, and withdraw in confusion.
Little Dorrit
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Milan Baros, he's failed to recapture the stunning form from the start of the season and now appears disinterested and unmotivated.
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At one in the morning, the Canadian border patrol guards were bored and disinterested.
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So, when this band started, for various reasons, we'd become very disinterested in what we found to be the, you know, kind of cliched ways of playing guitar and playing drums.
Vampire Weekend: Beyond The Blogs
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If you are utterly disinterested in your neighbor's sexuality, your indifference is not oppression.
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Visual sensibility is a prerequisite of art appreciation, and a genuine aesthetic experience is both self-sufficient and disinterested.
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Barons and lords glanced furtively at each other from down the table, ladies and nobles picked disinterestedly at their food as if suspecting it had been poisoned.
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He was now playing the role of disinterested host and avuncular mentor.
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Visual sensibility is a prerequisite of art appreciation, and a genuine aesthetic experience is both self-sufficient and disinterested.
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They can also offer a disinterested discussion of the public interest, of why it matters that television is honest and truthful.
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Make it perfectly clear you are neutral and totally disinterested.
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The Welsh are now something close to a rabble, reaching a nadir a week ago with a record 50-10 defeat against a disinterested England, who were firing on a cylinder and a half.
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Even the goldfish in the pond and the birds in the hedge seem listless and disinterested.
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Professional associations would seem to be well placed in terms of expertise and disinterest to carry out this kind of selection.
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He had never till now called upon me to make the shadow of a return for all his disinterested love -- _disinterested_, ah, was it so?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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a philanthropist, whom a true and noble woman, also a philanthropist, should have delighted to honor; whose disinterested and resolute efforts, for the redemption of poor humanity, all independent and faithful minds should sustain, since the "broadcloth" vulgar will be sure to assail them; a philosopher, worthy of the palmy times of ancient Greece;
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I
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There are so many subliminal motivational messages around this building, it's all I can do to remain disinterested and work-shy.
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Yet many people are entirely disinterested in ‘Westminster Village’ chatter.
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The key to success is the impartial, disinterested approach.
Times, Sunday Times
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The quiet weird new guy to boot, who was alternately normal and withdrawn, studious and disinterested in studies.
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For another, he's heavily medicated with antidepressants with the main side effects of sexual dysfunction and disinterest.
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We looked disinterested today and I can't explain why.
Times, Sunday Times
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A hand propping up his head shows his disinterest in the conversation.
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Its avatars will be the notions of ‘pure’ painting and poetry, reflected, for instance, in Blanchot's view of literature as pure writing, autonomous and disinterested.
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In the one all the horror of disgusting and blood-embrued barbarism, the drunkenness of carnage, the disinterested taste, if I may say so, for destruction and death; in the other a profound sense of justice, a great height of personal pride it is true, but also a great capacity for devotion, an exquisite loyalty.
The Poetry of the Celtic Races. II.
