How To Use Indifferent In A Sentence
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She included me in the unendurably indifferent.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The Pythagorean doctrine that one soul can not only transmigrate from man to man, from man to beast, but also indifferently to plants, serves as the basis for the soul's secular progress.
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Thus, dialogical openness is quite different from indifferentism; identity and dialogue are correlative.
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an indifferent performance
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To have shown it to her husband would have been her first impulse; but, besides that he was absent from home, and the matter too delicate to be the subject of correspondence by an indifferent penwoman, Mrs. Butler recollected that he was not possessed of the information necessary to form a judgment upon the occasion; and that, adhering to the rule which she had considered as most advisable, she had best transmit the information immediately to her sister, and leave her to adjust with her husband the mode in which they should avail themselves of it.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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she shrugged indifferently
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Millner, keenly aware that an aromatic savarin au rhum was describing an arc behind his head previous to being rushed back to the pantry under young Draper's indifferent eye, stiffened himself against this last assault of the enemy, and read out firmly: "What relation do you consider that a man's business conduct should bear to his religious and domestic life?
The Blond Beast
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Although heavily cut and in indifferent mono sound, Maria Callas' version is undisputedly a classic.
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I would like now to seriously indifferent room of wonderful.
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When a manager is told that his performance is indifferent or poor, it's not something he is going to take lightly.
Times, Sunday Times
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This way good, bad and indifferent teachers will be spread out.
Times, Sunday Times
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To him however that feels the same disgust and loathing, the same unutterable shuddering, as I feel, start up within him and shoot through his whole frame at the sight of them, these miscreate deformities, such as toads, beetles, or that most nauseous of all Nature's abortions, the bat, are not indifferent or insignificant: their very existence is a state of direct enmity and warfare against his.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck
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Laodicean" has therefore entered the English language as a word meaning "indifferent" or
Frugal In Virginia
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Therefore, they resisted what they perceived as American extremes of rationalism and indifferentism, precisely as did their Protestant and Catholic colleagues.
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Indifferent, insolent, squally weather put a bit of a damper on the festive and cultural activities over the bank holiday weekend.
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And two more points over an indifferent Brods side would see them leapfrog the visitors and move within touching distance of leaders Bridlington and York.
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The steel workers were relatively indifferent to the issue of nationalization.
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The Christian could not be tolerant or detached for the Christian could not remain indifferent to something which inevitably meant the loss of his soul and perdition for others.
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They are actually callous and indifferent to the drama of life and death in the midst of which they find themselves.
WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
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And another thing too - when a malaise is as commonplace as 'street harassment/eve teasing' is, we become somewhat indifferent to it.
Archive 2006-03-01
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The highest conception Caliban can achieve by natural reason is of the Quiet - an indifferent, absentee, Epicurean God.
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The lowly cultivator is viewed as indifferent to economic incentives because it is presumed that he is strongly committed to his traditional ways of cultivation.
Theodore W. Schultz - Prize Lecture
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All the time that he had appeared so indifferent to what was going on, he had been looking slily about for some missile or weapon of defence, and at the very instant when the swords were drawn, he espied, standing in the chimney – corner, an old basket – hilted rapier in a rusty scabbard.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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If one continues to cast an indifferent eye on/to turn a deaf ear to/ to be blind to/to overlook the problem, things are sure to go from bad to worse.
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The literary equivalent of a chick flick, Oleander details one girl's attempts to come to terms with her mother while also surviving the cold and largely indifferent world of foster care.
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But the Japanese today are indifferent to budo (the martial way)," she says.
Time's Arrow
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We didn't like the restaurant much - the food was indifferent and the service rather slow.
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I never really enjoyed Pink Floyd, and Orange Can has successfully reminded me why: the dull, stagnant jams sound indifferent and unambitious.
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We enjoyed the day, in spite of very indifferent weather.
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I was indifferent, for the chamois is a creature that will neither bite me nor abide with me; but to calm Harris, we went to the Hotel des Alpes.
A Tramp Abroad
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-- I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him -- an atrior cura at his tail -- and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous, Jack-indifferent cry of "Clo ', clo'!" who knows what woeful utterances are crying from the heart within?
Catherine: a Story
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Their jobs will be taken by sloppy, indifferent clock-watchers.
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These patients are seclusive and avoid social contact, and they are indifferent to hospital staff, visitors, relatives, and their physical environs.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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His brothers had been, by turns, indifferent and antagonistic to this last-born of the Angevin eaglets... with one exception.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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The photographs are of indifferent quality, the layout and design clumsy and amateurish.
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Food was of indifferent quality.
Times, Sunday Times
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I would like now to seriously indifferent room of wonderful.
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A few substances were passed around, but my mom and dad are rather indifferent to anything possibly illegal going on.
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a couple of indifferent hills to climb
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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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Faith, and you are _not_ blate," said she whimsically, but indifferent to remove herself from a grasp so innocent.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
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Isn't it a warning sign that you've become indifferent?
Times, Sunday Times
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a gifted painter but an indifferent actor
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What all the authors agree on is that a deep encounter with another faith tradition does not result in what some nervous people fear: indifferentism or relativism.
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Kathy is too angry and resentful to care and Josh has gradually come to grow indifferent toward his drunken distant father.
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Hypocrisy and a spirit of error will so besmut God's ordinances, that he shall take no pleasure in them: but sincerity, and honesty in duties, will make even those circumstances that in themselves are indifferent, at least comely in the sight of men.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
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There might be one outstanding book and a few middling or indifferent ones.
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He is replaced by an ordinary, non-distinguishable and indifferent 13-year-old girl named Wei.
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People of all nations and faiths know that we are all vulnerable to terror, which by its nature is careless of its targets and indifferent to human life.
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The pronouns in Sumerian are gender indifferent just like in Uralic and Altaic and are also affixed to the morpheme and become part of the agglutinated phrase.
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Their ancestors labored to build and rebuild the city and over centuries impressed their own character on it, triumphing over a harsh climate and foreign invasions, and surviving indifferent and brutal leaders.
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Words and deeds are quite indifferent 23modes of the divine 24energy. Words are also action, and actions are a kind of words.
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And now units of this vagrom and unstable street throng, which was forever shifting and changing about them, seemed to sense the psychologic error of all this in so far as these children were concerned, for they would nudge one another, the more sophisticated and indifferent lifting an eyebrow and smiling contemptuously, the more sympathetic or experienced commenting on the useless presence of these children.
An American Tragedy
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This seems to mean that the exhibition is indifferent to abstraction, surrealism or art of an introverted, asocial or eccentric nature.
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It's the idea that basically, the increment to wages that a worker requires to leave him indifferent between performing two tasks -- one which is more unpleasant than the other -- that's what you call a compensating differential.
Steven Levitt analyzes crack economics
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You could be heavily reward dependent, indifferent to novelty, and mildly harm avoidant—a stay-at-home hedonist, in other words.
Mind Wide Open
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Laugh, make, quarrel, cry, now I need is indifferent.
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In his op-ed, McCain wrote that "political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.
Karen Ocamb: Does Sen. John McCain Owe Gay Servicemen an Apology?
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The administration seems indifferent to data, impervious to competing viewpoints and ideas.
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The more we see and read about innocent civilians caught in the line of fire, the harder it is for governments to remain inactive or indifferent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indifferent attitude, made light of expression. Comfort.
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We have been met in the past with surly and indifferent service at many retail outlets.
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After being the surprise package of last season, it would be fair to say that it's been an indifferent start this time round for the team.
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If you are wondering whether the combined talent on display can improve the pedestrian material, the answer is indifferently negative.
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She was on a management seminar yesterday and spent this morning downwardly cascading the key points to an indifferent audience of Terry, Mike, Ash, Zippy and me.
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Yet only the most indifferent supporter could fail to be disappointed at how the season has imploded.
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What we definitely did see was indifferent bowling and fielding in the first half, and indifferent batting in the second.
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It seemed to me he was not so much indifferent as hostile towards these poor men.
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Vaterland", has about 11,000 subscribers among Catholics, while among the 63,000 subscribers to the politically and ecclesiastically indifferent "Zürcher Tagesanzeiger", there are about 20,000
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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If they turn their backs, they are condemned as indifferent and callous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Court majority offers the muddy suggestion that racial gerrymandering will pass muster if the resulting districts are not too aggressively indifferent to "compactness, contiguousness, geographical boundaries, or political subdivisions.
Districting By Pigmentation
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I would like now to seriously indifferent room of wonderful.
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Perhaps because I've been a New Yorker for so many years, I must admit that my "love" for Manhattan followed my original "love" for Sao Paulo, which impressed me a great deal during my first visit during my early adolescence … Although I was born in Rio de Janeiro (so famous for features which I either dislike or feel indifferent), I must say that I have always TRULY loved the "good old" PAULICEIA (one of my favorite terms for SAMPA) ...
Home
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He looked indifferently upon subjects that did not interest him.
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He leaned on his hands and shrugged, indifferent to Curt's attitude.
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No other sport offers this unique opportunity to young and old, good and indifferent players.
Times, Sunday Times
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All further ideas about it, such as the oneness or manyness of the spiritual substance on which it is based, are therefore void of intelligible meaning; and propositions touching such ideas may be indifferently affirmed or denied.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
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Similarly, among protists, a radiolarian may capture and ingest, more or less indifferently, a bacterium, an autotrophic flagellate, a herbivorous oligotrich ciliate, or another radiolarian (Fig 2E).
Marine microbes
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He has succeeding in "seeling" his moral vision — sewing his eyelids shut, as falconers did to tame their jittery birds — so that even the most spectacular signs and wonders leave him indifferent.
In the Night Kitchen
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He was indifferent to the attention he received, calmly going about his business, never using his influence to manipulate others.
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Last year, the winning word "Laodicean," which can mean lukewarm or indifferent in religion or politics, was properly spelled by Kavya Shivashankar.
The most common mispellings, er, misspellings
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His demeanor, sometimes indifferent, sometimes disgruntled, works fantastically in Hud.
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He becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
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Having but an indifferent opinion of books ushered into existence by such charlatanical manoeuvres, we thought no more of Omoo, until, musing the other day over our matutinal hyson, the volume itself was laid before us, and we suddenly found ourselves in the entertaining society of Marquesan Melville, the phoenix of modern voyagers, sprung, it would seem, from the mingled ashes of Captain Cook and Robin Crusoe.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
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I was indifferent, I said, about what he could say of me; and I was sure it could not be to my disadvantage; and as he had no reason to impute to me the forwardness which my unkind friends had so causelessly taxed me with.
Clarissa Harlowe
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It ticked away, indifferent to the apocalypse that had overtaken its owner.
THE HELLBOUND HEART
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a creditable display are, in an international point of view, of the first importance, while an indifferent or uncreditable participation by the
State of the Union Address
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It is so common to observe on the same plant, flowers indifferently tetramerous, pentamerous, &c., that I need not give examples; but as numerical variations are comparatively rare when the parts are few, I may mention that, according to De Candolle, the flowers of Papaver bracteatum offer either two sepals with four petals (which is the common type with poppies), or three sepals with six petals.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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This may mean the person gives up interests and hobbies or is indifferent to social conventions and to the opinions of others.
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How extraordinary, I say, fascinated by the possibility of two people being either so equable, or so indifferent, that they can go 30 years without a cross word.
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His own gaze, generally unsympathetic and indifferent to the Other as such, evokes little sympathy.
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There are numerous fixtures featuring the desperate versus the indifferent.
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The other is that while Tolstoy and Ibsen presently became, the one indifferent to artistic expression, and the other baldly prosaic where he was once deeply poetical, Bjornson preserved the poetic impulse of his youth, and continued to give it play even in his envisagement of the most practical modern problems.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
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Beyond the port, the monstrous gaseous globe of Goldin XI precessed in stately, indifferent silence.
Flinx's Folly
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The good days have been regularly interspersed with indifferent or downright bad ones.
Times, Sunday Times
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Van Horn, smoking his cigar in lordly indifferent fashion, kept his apparently uninterested eyes glued to each boy who made his way aft, box on shoulder, and stepped out on the land.
CHAPTER IX
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Some, rather than being simply indifferent to the well-being of others, have an urgent need to make others feel agony and humiliation.
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She is indifferent, negligent, unfeeling, untrustworthy, and perfidious.
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Some came up anxiously, actually hoping they might be the lucky one; while others were indifferent; because there had been an interesting programme laid out for that morning's work, and they should hate to miss the "wigwagging" with signal flags; as well as more of Allan's trail talks, which were so great.
The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol
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Following our gazes, he looked at it too and shrugged indifferently.
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Elaeagnus, and mulberries, are the principal fruit trees; of these the pear is the best, it is small but well flavoured; the others are indifferent.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Lastly, this commandment conveys the obligation to dissent from, and reject, every superstition and every error, requiring us to preserve pure and intemerate the adoration due to the Supreme Being, who, in this sense, is represented in this text as jealously watching over human actions, and a not indifferent spectator of good or evil; therefore a sure punisher of the guilty, and an eternal remunerator of him who faithfully adheres to His law.
A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth
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In the short stories, disease and illness are deployed as prosopopoeia, the cruelly indifferent natural forces that control life and death.
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whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)
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There is more poignant music in the Primavera, in the weary, indifferent countenances of his lean, neuropathic Madonnas -- Pater calls them "peevish" -- in his Venus of the
Promenades of an Impressionist
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Her happy thoughts! the Lady Alice was not one of those indifferent beings panegyrized by the Countess; she had given her whole heart to Henry Lawleigh -- and now to hear that he loved another!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
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It will represent a big chance for Foster to redeem himself after some indifferent form for United.
The Sun
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In a recovery with double voucher, the tenant or proprietor of the land con - veys an eftate of freehold to fome indifferent pcrfon againft whom the v/rit is brought; the tenant to the precipe then vouches the proprietor of the land, who vouches over the common vouchee.
A Law Grammar; Or, An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of English Jurisprudence.
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Bloggers can express themselves in a number of ways, from contrary to confessional, from indifferent to impassioned.
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The president is indifferent to the offence of the host nation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The women stare indifferently as catcalls and whistling burst loudly from the dark interior of a taxi.
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The first serious wine concerns were felt by French vignerons who simply replicated French methods with indifferent results.
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Having said this in his First Book of Good Deeds, he says again, that both commodiousness and grace pertain to mean or indifferent things, none of which according to them, is profitable.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Sometimes, indeed, a whole tragedy grows out of a single gesture; the tone in which a few words were spoken rends a whole life in two; a glance into indifferent eyes is the deathblow of the gladdest love; and, unhappily, such gestures and such words were only too familiar to
A Woman of Thirty
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Poor direction has resulted in a wasted and seemingly indifferent cast.
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The steel workers were relatively indifferent to the issue of nationalization.
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their love left them indifferent to their surroundings
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I'm not an Abba lover but then I'm not an Abba hater either, just a bit indifferent.
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Words and deeds are quite indifferent 23modes of the divine 24energy. Words are also action, and actions are a kind of words.
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Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue.
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Beethoven's Ninth Symphony taken at a wrong tempo than a duchess by losing a diamond necklace, I was indifferent to the repulsive fact that if I had fallen in love with the duchess I did not possess a morning suit in which I could reasonably have expected her to touch me with the furthest protended pair of tongs; and I did not see that to remedy this
The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
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The administration seems indifferent to data, impervious to competing viewpoints and ideas.
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When I was a kid we have a few Wyeth prints hanging up, The one of Jamie Wyeth in the coonskin cap and this one "Blue Door" Basically because I put them up and my mother was indifferent about art and never changed them. at
Dropping like flies
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The more we see and read about innocent civilians caught in the line of fire, the harder it is for governments to remain inactive or indifferent.
Times, Sunday Times
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IV. i.93 (416,7) [garters of an indifferent knit] What is the sense of this I know not, unless it means, that their _garters_ should be _fellows_; _indifferent_, or _not different_, one from the other.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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I mean, I don't want to have nothing to say when people engage me in conversation on the current topic to which I am totally indifferent; almost nobody I know wants to talk about anything else and it would be frustrating to have to remain mumchance for the next few weeks.
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A spouse who does not respond constructively to a Calderbank offer, whether a good offer as in this case or only one that is bad or indifferent, stymies whatever chance there is of settlement.
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Under the neo-liberal dispensation, then, what many people seem to yearn for is a world in which they are treated not as consumers or as dispensable cogs in an indifferent machine but as citizens and as human beings.
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Perhaps it's not just him that seems indifferent to such youthful exuberance.
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Ordinarily, comets are conspicuous at their perihelia, as being their shortest distances from the sun, which is the focus of their orbit, and inasmuch as a parabola is but an ellipse with its axis indefinitely produced, for some short portion of its pathway the orbit may be indifferently considered either one or the other; but in this particular case the professor was right in adopting the supposition of its being parabolic.
Off on a Comet
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Most of your friends are indifferent or antipathetic to it, so you don't bring it up much when talking about movies.
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I think a major reason for these shifts has been the increasing dominance, since the Reagan era, of an ideology that is indifferent to or actively celebrates inequality of income.
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She writes and sings songs that conceal, behind their velveteen sonics and cherry-red-lipstick smile, a degree of indifferent brutality.
Times, Sunday Times
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(through whose tortured glottis the word nymphet has decisively been lifted into the linguistic mainstream from the minor Jacobean rivulets of Drayton and Drummond), whose speech is effectively spoonerized by the "tender, mysterious, impure, indifferent twilight eyes" of "Haze, Dolores" (to firmly place the child where she belongs -- in a school attendance list):
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
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Mrs. Pipchin was but an indifferent pen-woman.
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Especially in that the seasons have been proper to bring up and set forward other more hasty and indifferent plants, whereby this of knowledge bath been starved and overgrown; for in the descent of times always there hath been somewhat else in reign and reputation, which hath generally aliened and diverted wits and labours from that employment.
Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature
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Words and deeds are quite indifferent 23modes of the divine 24energy. Words are also action, and actions are a kind of words.
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And yet what I hear is so remote, a tremble displaced in time, so indifferent, its spent passion whizzing above my immobile frame.
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I would like now to seriously indifferent room of wonderful.
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Pipchin was but an indifferent penwoman -- by Florence.
Dombey and Son
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In very short time after, those two infected parts were growne mortiferous, and would disperse abroad indifferently, to all parts of the body; whereupon, such was the quality of the disease, to shew it selfe by blacke or blew spottes, which would appeare on the armes of many, others on their thighes, and every part else of the body: in some great and few, in others small and thicke.
The Decameron
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It is an audience unswayed and indifferent to the news that Vick is the NFL's Comeback Player of the Year or that the Philadelphia Eagles subsequently gave him the "franchise" tag.
Morris W. O'Kelly: Michael Vick Likely Saved Career in Oprah Cancellation
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His manner was cold and indifferent.
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Most feminists I had come across, especially the ones close to my age (20s) are pro-porn (or at least, "pro free speech" to the point of being indifferent to porn) and are condescending to those of us who are against pornography - * especially* when someone, like me, is against porn because of her emotions and gut and has no educated, rational, research-backed reasons to give.
Women's Space
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They got off a poor start and after an indifferent opening half really came good in the second half, getting two early points.
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Taitbout were the Concerts Rouge, where for seventy-five centimes they could hear excellent music and get into the bargain something which it was quite possible to drink: the seats were uncomfortable, the place was crowded, the air thick with caporal horrible to breathe, but in their young enthusiasm they were indifferent.
Of Human Bondage
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He looked indifferently upon subjects that did not interest him.
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Despite his poor village origins, he is cold and indifferent to the problems confronting his family and friends.
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Leicester Square which is a centre of attraction to indifferent foreign hotels and indifferent foreigners, racket – courts, fighting – men, swordsmen, footguards, old china, gaming – houses, exhibitions, and a large medley of shabbiness and shrinking out of sight.
Bleak House
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Indeed, the fiction of an Australia blithely indifferent to America is the single-most unrealistic aspect of the film.
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You have Grecian monuments, if anything so misplaced can be called Grecian, imbedded against and cutting into Gothic pillars; the doors shut for the greater part of the day; only a little bit of the building used: beadledom predominant; the clink of money here and there; white-wash in vigour; the singing indifferent; the sermons not indifferent but bad; and some visitors from London forming, perhaps, the most important part of the audience; in fact, the thing having become a show.
Friends in Council — First Series
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I spent too much time just coasting and doing nothing and being really apathetic and indifferent.
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These earnest terms are often used, and the address to God, as indifferent or averse, is found in Ps 3: 7; 22: 24; 27: 9, &c.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The other extreme of inelegant solution is to become callous and indifferent to the suffering of others.
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The national government felt no legal obligation to protect antislavery activists and, in truth, reacted indifferently to attacks upon them.
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In this conventional hierarchy, it is morally worse to intend harm than to be indifferent whether harm results from one's behaviour.
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Words and deeds are quite indifferent 23modes of the divine 24energy. Words are also action, and actions are a kind of words.
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It seemed a daft idea and the film did indifferent business at the box office.
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No reconstruction of society can avail for incompetent, indifferent, thriftless men who cannot work together.
Black and White
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Restaurants often add a service charge on to the tab, thereby avoiding the possibility that even the most indifferent service does not go unrewarded.
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However, Therese was getting ornery in her old age, and had never done anything according to plan, so it figured that instead of being indifferent, she would want to make her daughter's wedding as much a living hell as possible.
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For first my booke tuchheht not your graces person in especiall, neyther yit is it preiudiciall till any libertie of the realme yf the tyme and my Writing be indifferently considered.
The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.
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I would avoid all reflection, or any thing that may tend to give umbrage; but there is in this army from the southward a number called riflemen, who are as indifferent men as I ever served with.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
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Similarly, among protists, a radiolarian may capture and ingest, more or less indifferently, a bacterium, an autotrophic flagellate, a herbivorous oligotrich ciliate, or another radiolarian (Fig 2E).
Marine microbes
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Like the visage on the ancient statues of Hercules, the physiognomy of the hulky Bernese was large and massive, having an air of indifferent and almost sullen composure, which did not change but in moments of the fiercest agitation.
Anne of Geierstein
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The SWP are indifferent to any critical historical examination of the role played by the trade unions.
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'bushing' or how, -- and if the partridge-seasons were 'excellent,' or were indifferent.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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Why don't you vote - how can you be so indifferent !
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She's meant to be open to life, but seems blasé and indifferent to it.
Times, Sunday Times
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China's online games industry appears to be trapped in a culture indifferent to the vicious cycle.
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An uninspired student, a so-so lover, an indifferent conversationalist.
GALILEE
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And he was not indifferent to worldly things.
GOD'S SECRETARIES: The Making of the King James Bible
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Is it implied that God is just the highest in a pyramid of arbitrary powers indifferent to justice?
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Then she subdivided the coins in the groups into good, so-so and indifferent.
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They are actually callous and indifferent to the drama of life and death in the midst of which they find themselves.
WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
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The Pythagorean doctrine that one soul can not only transmigrate from man to man, from man to beast, but also indifferently to plants, serves as the basis for the soul's secular progress.
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stonily indifferent to time
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The opera was indifferent, but fairly successful with public.
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Lastly, this commandment conveys the obligation to dissent from, and reject, every superstition and every error, requiring us to preserve pure and intemerate the adoration due to the Supreme Being, who, in this sense, is represented in this text as jealously watching over human actions, and a not indifferent spectator of good or evil; therefore a sure punisher of the guilty, and an eternal remunerator of him who faithfully adheres to His law.
A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth
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It may be necessary to explain to the uninitiated reader that the terms "he" and "she" are indifferently used at sea, in reference to craft, but when the masculine pronoun is applied it is understood to refer more especially to the _commanding officer_ of the vessel; while the pronoun "she" refers to the _vessel herself_.
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
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Relying on argument or anecdote for their appeal, these books included only a handful of indifferently reproduced black-and-white plates.
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The other is that of the militants of the extreme right, like the neo-fascists, who possibly feel politically isolated among a majority which they despise for being too indifferent and stupid to understand their message.
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In layman's terms parkour is about efficiency of movement while free running has evolved to include more acrobatics like flips and jumps," says Ez. While there is bickering among some, most traceurs seem indifferent to labels.
Bound for Glory: Parkour Goes From Urban Oddity to Fitness Fad
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The mere isolatedness of a being is per se evil, is the opposite of true existence and life, the ruin of life, that is, death, — is a dissolution of the unitary collective life into indifferent ultimate atoms.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.
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Obama, an indifferent student and doper at the time, has given us no evidence of an interest in anything besides “neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy.”
Deconstructing Obama
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If, from the loftiest epic to the tritest novel, a heroine is often little more than a name to which we are called upon to bow, as to a symbol representing beauty, and if we ourselves (be we ever so indifferent in our common life to fair faces) feel that, in art at least, imagination needs an image of the Beautiful -- if, in a word, both poet and reader here would not be left excuseless, it is because in our inmost hearts there is a sentiment which links the ideal of beauty with the Supersensual.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07
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But all they had heard so far was a succession of indifferent poets and party politicians.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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For three grueling days the young boy had remained oblivious to his surrounding world, unresponsive and indifferent to anything and anyone around him.
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People, young, old and indifferent, can have purple hair, swear at ballgames or give other motorists the finger.
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Customer service on this flight was indifferent rather than the usual surly.
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Catholic practices adiaphorous (indifferent things, neither good nor bad), hence permissible provided that the proper doctrine were maintained and its import made clear to the people.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Indifferently magnificent, it sneered back at my eager camera lens, which could only fit in a pitiful few floors.
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A huge black-and-brown mutt flung itself against the wire at her; something that looked vaguely like a corgi looked at her indifferently.
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The good days have been regularly interspersed with indifferent or downright bad ones.
Times, Sunday Times
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Water condition: Very indifferent to water hardness, but prefers a slightly acid to neutral condition.
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Naively optimistic and resilient, Manet sought honours in the Salons; Degas was cynically indifferent to public acclaim.
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It is quite indifferent to me whether you go or stay.
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A more vain politician might have bemoaned the cramped conditions, the indifferent beds, the miles to be covered every day, the rushed meals.
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This we concede in so far as Schleiermacher speaks of such actions as are held to be neither in conformity nor in disconformity to duty, that is morally indifferent, but this is by no means the true idea of the allowed.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.
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The Jordan Valley is a perfect avian sluiceway; for millennia a feathery tide has ridden it, indifferent to the human dramas playing out below.
