At that time, my enthusiasm met a cold blast of indifference or hostility from most of the people I talked to about it. |
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What is more illuminating is your seeming indifference to the lack of consideration paid by the BMCC Board to student issues. |
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Last season's rookie of the year scares the big teams of the conference, with his seeming indifference to pressure. |
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The reluctance to wave the big stick at employers does not betoken EU indifference. |
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Instead of an eager, grateful welcome, the people greeted Jesus with indifference and unbelief. |
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With our fear, ignorance, alienation, mindlessness, indifference, and fragmentation we do not realize that such beliefs are not natural. |
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You have frequently treated me with indifference and made me feel unwelcome. |
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Social indifference or ignorance under the present conditions makes a particularly miserable program for artistic work. |
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Even more troubling, though, is the indifference the council has shown to what neuroscience tells us about bioethics itself. |
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It is this kind of indifference to their future that turns north-easterners wish to secede from India. |
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Was it her simper, or her settled indifference to ideas, or the gaudy ring she wore on her right forefinger and twisted incessantly? |
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But he never scorned security with the blithe indifference of the radical ideologues who used him as an authority on the evils of welfare. |
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How do you strike the right balance between unnecessarily fostering fears and encouraging a blithe indifference to real and present dangers? |
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Between the two extremes of dogmatic adherence and blithe indifference to the text of the Constitution lies a reasonable and legal resolution. |
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It was his record of blithe indifference to the magnitude of the challenge that helped lead us to vote for his opponent. |
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Management don't know how bad the staff on the ground are, while ground staff parrot the official line with blithe indifference to the facts. |
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The outrageousness of his action is matched only by the blithe indifference with which he apparently expects to carry it off. |
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Traffic changes are rammed through with apparently blithe indifference to issues affecting other elements of the transport system. |
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The indifference shown to the mortal remains of their own people did not bring any gains to the dictator or his country. |
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Where once we had professional mourners to simulate grief on behalf of the vastly relieved, we now have mute indifference. |
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They are being met with indifference or active hostility because they have committed the unforgivable sin of cooperating with the Americans. |
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I think it is a matter of perfect indifference to my noble friend whether these documents are produced or not. |
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What it cannot survive is our indifference to, or unawareness of, the evidence that such a plot has succeeded. |
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Those people who need others to confirm their sense of existence fear solitude and find nature's indifference to human beings unendurable. |
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Immediately after we were introduced I began screaming at her, scolding her for unprofessional behavior, indifference, ungenerousness. |
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The feeling of detached indifference had been soothing and he hated that it was slowly slipping away. |
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A man in a tattered suit, involved, myopically, in some elementary task, despite being surrounded by silent indifference. |
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The Hungarian beauty could not exactly be described as an actress, but she had decorated numerous films with her sloe-eyed indifference. |
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In the astounding nakedness of its indifference to the life of its own poor, the government has therefore left itself visible, questionable. |
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A mothers' movement perhaps could be based not so much on our shared values as on indifference to our unshared values. |
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Women nationwide blame not only their Government for its unwatchful eye, but the international community for its indifference. |
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What she wants or does not want is subsumed in absolute indifference and the great overarching project of finding the perfect negation of ego. |
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There is a fine line between maturity, sobriety and patience, and indifference, alienation and disgust. |
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In my view it is this sort of indifference and ignorance to other people of the world that sows the seeds of terrorism. |
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Most people's attitudes toward caterpillars are based on this sort of lowly image and range from distaste to indifference. |
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This type of tragedy used to be met with a bureaucratic shrug of indifference. |
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More than rage, it was a pity that filled me on seeing this callous indifference all around. |
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When he spoke, he's surrounded by his usual air of self-confidence, calm, indifference and superiority. |
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I'm always amazed with the ease and indifference that patrons shed their stinky workout gear and parade around starkers. |
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To contact the Metropolitan Police is a frustrating experience of long delays, indifference, obstructiveness and even downright hostility. |
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To British ears, your claim not to read polls sounds like stolid indifference to public opinion, not moral strength and political courage. |
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When he occasionally raised his head, the look was one of stony-faced indifference to what was happening around him. |
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Professor Lightbody would tell you that indifference ensures that no one stuffs the ballot box. |
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The attitude toward the poor is at best one of official indifference, and at worst outright criminalization. |
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Yet this last, the cultivation of sublime indifference, may not be the easiest but the toughest way of all into the snob-free zone. |
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I argue that cultural indifference, chauvinism and racism pervade the classroom, posing particular challenges for anthropological pedagogy. |
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His opus ends up on top for the sheer indifference, cheapness, humorlessness, pointlessness, meanness, and ineptitude of the entire production. |
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And our collective indifference may not mean we are a bunch of uncaring cheapskates. |
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As guest speaker he wasn't afraid to deliver a few home truths about the indifference that exists to the suffering in African countries. |
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On the other hand, it meant that some of his ideas provoked hostile opposition, while others were greeted with incomprehension or indifference. |
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He's a paradox in some ways. There is an air of indifference, but he really does care. |
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Such cuts are also an expression of cultural vandalism and philistine indifference. |
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Take that away, treat such feelings with indifference, even contempt, and recruitment will fall away. |
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All concerned proceeded with general indifference to the constitutional issues involved. |
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There can be no excuse for such indifference and lack of care about how some prisoners are treated. |
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One is the risk that an industry will gain a reputation of indifference to public interest. |
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The issues of homelessness, lack of income and indifference to seeking medical care for the children continued. |
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As best as he could, Thomas shrugged and his scowl gave way to feigned indifference. |
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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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I tried so hard to keep a straight face but I just couldn't I went from anger to frustration to fear to indifference. |
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If international criticism or indifference does not arouse concern for how we look to others, what will? |
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But behind the latest official displays of concern lie the same indifference for the plight of the Asian masses. |
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Storeowners look to the suburbs with varying degrees of contempt, jealousy and indifference. |
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As expected, responses varied widely from impassioned anger to passive indifference. |
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I ran menial errands, tasted everything, and feigned indifference towards the whole process. |
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She yawned broadly, then, mustering up an utter lack of indifference, pointed straight ahead. |
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He said he was frustrated by people's indifference and lack of interest in the work of the town council. |
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Dutch public schools teach children to view the sexes as equal and to regard sexual orientation as a matter of indifference. |
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What happens to the Russians, what happens to the Czechs, is a matter of utter indifference to me. |
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That there is no scientific evidence to support these claims is a matter of indifference to those who believe them. |
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It is not a matter of indifference to Scots how the English elect to run their education system. |
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Nondominated alternatives correspond to the indifference curves of traditional economics. |
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Moreover, goods and services in early growth stages defy analysis in terms of efficient frontiers and indifference curves. |
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The model developed above demonstrates the pattern of indifference curves that explains procrastinatory behaviour. |
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This, of course, will be determined by their new tangential indifference curve. |
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Orchestras and opera companies battle on in the face of increasing evidence of public indifference and of diminishing investment. |
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How long must innocent people continue to pay the price for our indifference and complacency? |
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Executive fiats and judicial indifference are the hallmarks of a decaying democracy. |
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His eventual recourse to a standard of five argues indifference or insensibility. |
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I have never experienced such indifference to personal feelings, such insensitiveness towards the sanctity of the dead. |
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It's easy to interpret his angelic temper and indifference to human intrusion as friendliness. |
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This contagion was spreading at an alarming rate, thanks also to the society's growing yet harmful indifference. |
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By contrast, Iris reveals an apparent indifference to the grisly activities she is involved in. |
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Two indifference curves, shown in Figure 1, represent two levels of consumption of environmental quality and of all other goods. |
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Of course, he did not counsel indifference, let alone abstention, from the economic struggles of the working class. |
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Lucia's indifference melted into a cautious glower, but Sondra only smiled and held up her hands in forfeit. |
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The opinions ranged the gamut, from panic to indifference, many with steadfastness and underlying optimism. |
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She should still feign indifference in the entire matter, no matter how deadly curious she was. |
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With cold indifference, Mark knew it was only a prologue to what was to come later. |
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Reactions varied from glassy-eyed indifference, people being a bit shaken by the oddness of it, and slowly smiling enthusiasm and amusement. |
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But this determination to bring everything down to the most prosaic level just inspires indifference in the reader. |
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It isn't the first time he has shown a depraved indifference toward responsibility, and sadly, it may not be the last. |
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The Punic power fell, because there is in this materialism a mad indifference to real thought. |
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Maybe his struggle to grapple with limited resources is handicapped by his players' indifference. |
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It was a line-up that gave off an odour of complacency or perhaps, more disagreeably, of indifference to the prize at stake. |
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If you are utterly disinterested in your neighbor's sexuality, your indifference is not oppression. |
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For these critics, public indifference was a mark of distinction, a sign of the artist's refusal to pander to the degraded tastes of the crowd. |
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Here the spectacle continues to fascinate, but indifference is the attitude du jour. |
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This gave the film an ethereal, otherworldly quality that drew critical praise and, again, commercial indifference. |
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In both, a small minority seeks tolerance of behaviour that causes in the majority anything from indifference through distaste to abhorrence. |
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Dave's solitary walk of shame was met by mass indifference as he picked his way amongst rush hour traffic. |
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The Minister has shown absolute disregard and displayed total indifference to the plight of people living in this area. |
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The contempt and indifference for her own child, which she continually voices, is absurdly unbelievable. |
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All politicians are accountable to us and we must not confuse arrogant indifference with real leadership. |
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He is dismayed by the indifference of the public to its own peril, but it is the acquiescent dismay of an older man. |
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Still, we should not equate war weariness with lack of will or indifference. |
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They would cultivate a military bearing, trying to take a disciplinary flogging with manly indifference, and giving a smart salute after it. |
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The boy then sat on top of the pillow, affecting an air of supreme indifference. |
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One can affect unawareness, feign indifference or summon up some other defense against such entreaties. |
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Perhaps part of my indifference is that on the whole, the cast was full of unconvincing actors. |
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He would be aghast at the spread of materialism and greed, and angry at our indifference to poverty and deprivation. |
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His apparent indifference to the current state of affairs merely supports the view that it is time to wind it up. |
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In the most disturbing image of all, the young son of a Klansman gazes with casual indifference at a noose where a black-faced doll hangs. |
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Traditionally, of course, pluralism in religious matters was deemed a sign of impiety and indifference to God's truth. |
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Whether the black poor live or die seems to merit only haughty disinterest and indifference. |
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The lack of aid, bureaucratic indifference and outright corruption has fuelled widespread resentment and anger. |
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Already, its callous indifference to the plight of the local population is fuelling growing resentment. |
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Other labor and social justice activists leafleted at major retailers, educating consumers and criticizing executive indifference. |
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In the second week of August the government was obliged to answer accusations of negligence and indifference. |
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These explanations were, despite my best and more detailed efforts, met by indifference, glazed eyes and near hostility by my table mates. |
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His family is maddened by his indifference to the bridal candidates they present to him. |
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Formally then, utility is maximized at the point where the budget line is tangential to an indifference curve. |
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This is not quite a brutish indifference to everything beyond the tangible. |
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Terry rails against Jack's indifference and desperately tries to salvage some kind of relationship from the tangled chaos. |
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Maybe it's simply that like everyone else I found Tony with his babyish skin, his grand ideas and gentle indifference an irresistible target. |
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The way matters are shaping up, next year's poll could be sunk by what may be termed rampaging indifference. |
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I admire your blithe spirit in the face of overwhelming reality, and your ballsy indifference to the same gloom that frequently swamps me. |
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They are guilty of the violence of silence, of indifference and of intellectual bankruptcy. |
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The true secularist's distrust of the 'order of prophecy' can turn his indifference towards religion into actual disdain and contempt. |
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This seeming indifference to atrocity feeds the central government's sinking reputation at home and abroad. |
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A major reason for the seeming indifference is the cost of treatment. |
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Similarly, he prefers to draw a veil over his first year at university, which was clearly unhappy for reasons not totally related to his indifference to Fellini movies. |
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The difference between the sexes is no accident or matter of indifference. |
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The team he inherited had little respect for his achievements as a manager, but he sensed their indifference and weeded out the dissidents with minimal fuss. |
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And, to top it all, the indifference shown by the government is appalling. |
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Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, lethargy and indifference. |
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What would have seemed like raw meat for columnists, satirists, incendiaries and the like has fallen between the cracks of ennui and indifference. |
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The good news is that the departure of Berlusconi could be a tonic that awakens Italy from a stupor of lassitude and indifference. |
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It is a matter of indifference as far as the Legal Aid is concerned. |
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For this reason, as soon as he took office, Ma began to cultivate the attitude of indifference to Lee as a preparation for his inveterate opposition to the central government. |
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And they are not alone in their indifference to this latest round of shuttle diplomacy. |
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The indifference and insensitivity to democratic principles start here. |
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There is an indifference and in fact a wariness among Turkish public opinion. |
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What distinguishes them is not the nature of the fraud but the technical means by which it is perpetrated, and this is a matter of indifference in English law. |
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Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference. |
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Few believe these same Cold War hawks actually care about foreign peoples, as they were fairly open about their indifference to human rights not so long ago. |
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Despite frequent disappointments, largely due to the indifference or unimaginativeness of others, he carried many amazing things through to completion. |
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The near enemy is indifference, which is based on intentional unconcern. |
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From lack of talent to utter indiscipline, the team has suffered on many fronts and the slide has been marked by a shocking indifference among the players. |
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It is a matter of indifference to the designer of the tool whether particles are trapped within the catcher at the level of the groove or at the level of the slot. |
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I adapted and my irritation turned into indifference, then strangely, acceptance. |
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During our interview, Tory rode the middle on most issues, qualifying his policy statements with casualness and indifference when questioned point-blank. |
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This indifference to outward forms or beliefs is in fact an important aspect of theosophy itself, for it is why the theosophers have never formed a sect or institution. |
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His indifference to the gossip has always struck me not as a decision so much as an involuntary and organic reaction. |
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Two basic characteristics not related to memory are apathy and indifference or callousness. |
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While we might not like all those who wield it, bds has shown itself to be a tool that unsettles indifference. |
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It was about the passive indifference of a nation that seems content to allow these daily calamities to persist. |
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Needless to say, today's Church Militant is plagued with indifference. |
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Maybe the political indifference or ignorance of the average American is not at root a vice in our national life but a virtue, a product of a mild politics. |
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With nerveless indifference, she was prepared to see the larger portion of her friends as well as enemies in high places depart the scene as a direct result of her behaviour. |
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This contempt and indifference simply underscores the fact that the ruling class has no solution to any of the immense social problems confronting working people. |
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The result can be the indifference that appears so chilling in the Garner video. |
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A few weeks on, his genial countenance has frozen into icy indifference. |
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Looked at more deeply, it seems to license quietism and indifference to things in the world, on the grounds that nothing that merely happens to people is really bad. |
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While some may classify that inactivity as laziness or indifference, Brown suggests the contrary. |
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Asking a student to weigh what swearing or deliberate indifference says about his or her character accomplishes more than moralistic finger-wagging. |
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Much discussed is the seeming indifference of many young people. |
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The world can no longer afford the blind suspicion, destructive rivalries and indifference to the legitimate fears of others that have brought it to this state. |
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Protectionism, a lack of standards, and indifference toward backward and sideways thinking can create Byzantine systems that interfere with the user. |
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The lad and devoted dad must overcome corruption and indifference as they strive to make it in the rarefied world of the concert musician without connections. |
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In a nationwide broadcast, correa bitterly complained of first-world indifference. |
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To an outsider the banter, the seeming indifference to the awful things being done to the patient in this room in the cause of health, are shocking. |
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A lack of judgment and an indifference that might be termed callous is nothing, however, compared with the alternative scenario that suggests itself. |
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As I fought for services, I felt I was dealing with bureaucratic indifference bordering on malevolence. |
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The cat purred with magnificent indifference and left via the flap Arthur had fitted so badly they'd had to employ a carpenter to put things right. |
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This line of argument would seem to lead either to benign Stoic conclusions of mutual indifference, or to finding tyrants and reigns of terror no threat to individual freedom. |
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The common factor in the two stories from different sides of the border is the indifference and the fear that paralyses people who witness such crimes. |
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He recovered himself quickly, and again feigned indifference. |
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People are not approaching them due to lack of education or indifference. |
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The exquisite taste in clothing of the Indian upper class is in sharp contradistinction to its complete indifference to the external appearance of houses and streets. |
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How the horror of these times has influenced us, that we accept with indifference the all-present terror which we would have never been able to imagine! |
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Which side is winning is a matter of complete indifference to them. |
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If their teachers do not seriously try to teach history, then they will be replicas of our generation for whom history is a matter of indifference. |
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Her indifference astonished Clark, who has been a cop for 29 years. |
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I was nonplussed, I stared at my teacher, never before had his swollen face seemed so replete with indifference, stone ataraxy. |
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While some Yanks treated contrabands with a degree of equity or benevolence, the more typical response was indifference, contempt, or cruelty. |
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The indifference displayed by OKL to Directive 23 was perhaps best demonstrated in operational directives which diluted its effect. |
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It's not a problem of hostility or antagonism, it's more of a problem of indifference. |
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To the public, Waugh displayed a mask of indifference, but he was capable of great kindness to those whom he considered to be his friends. |
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Visible nature is all plasticity and indifference, a multiverse, as one might call it, and not a universe. |
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The young Shaw suffered no harshness from his mother, but he later recalled that her indifference and lack of affection hurt him deeply. |
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A laissez-faire style, characterized by passive indifference about the task and subordinates, is essentially a nonstyle. |
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Interactions between the two species vary in nature, ranging from active antagonism to indifference. |
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Darcy managed to save a friend from a bad match by convincing the friend of the lady's indifference. |
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There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits. |
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Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system. |
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When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness. |
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Not that the fast underhanders which were bowled before this innovation could be treated with indifference. |
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Hasan proceeded to pull the trigger with the most ungodly indifference. |
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Absolute negligence and outsight indifference has caused extensive damage to the lake, which is often known as the ecological lungs of Srinagar. |
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Manning accuses the church's power structure of authoritarianism, patriarchalism, and indifference toward the rights of women and children. |
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Perhaps the most popular analysis method is to fit the indifference points at each delay or probability with a hyperbolic function. |
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Today they may well see their children being propagandized as the result of their earlier indifference. |
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To begin with there is the general indifference to the decay of democracy. |
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I'm tonally stepping back from earnestness or sincerity into idleness, indifference, vituperativeness. |
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There has been a move from preconciliar papalism to attacks, indifference, silence. |
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The absence of common courtesy, such as indifference from retail clerks, or being treated like a number by impersonal bureaucracies. |
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There can be no greater proof of this than in the stone-hearted, indifference of this week's welfare reforms. |
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Lacking incentives to appoint strict constructionists, his attitude toward judicial conservatives runs between indifference and hostility. |
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This shows an astonishing indifference to the fact that if you underfund the health service in Wales then Welsh lives will be lost. |
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The scholars cite adultery, lying, unrepentance, pride, gluttony, indifference to the poor, inhospitality, etc. |
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As a consequence, a complete pre-order is then induced, which also means that no incomparability is allowed and the indifference relation among alternatives is transitive. |
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Bernardino's fears concerning sodomy encountered less indifference. |
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Their emotivity is always exaggerated, and although cloaked by an apparent indifference, their exaggerated sensitivities make their lives a perpetual tragedy. |
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Over the violence and the proud loyalties, over the sold-out-ness and the cruel indifference, there is light reclothing us in a kind of strange innocence. |
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WikiLeaks might have provided a pressure valve for those agents who were terribly worried about what might happen and frustrated by their superiors' seeming indifference. |
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Whilst the daylight lasted, he treated her cautionings with apparent indifference. The darkness of night is the time for fear. As the gloom of evening set in, he grew nervous. |
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But if the sexual urge is continually frustrated, the whole business becomes more truly painlike, and few would choose that condition over indifference. |
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The point of tangency of the indifference curve and the efficient frontier represents the locus of the optimal portfolio at the given risk preference. |
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Behind Thomas's mask of indifference and reticence is a man with a wicked sense of humor and a booming laugh that often catches the unsuspecting off-guard. |
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Assuming that low turnout is a reflection of disenchantment or indifference, a poll with very low turnout may not be an accurate reflection of the will of the people. |
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Strictly observant, Waugh admitted to Diana Cooper that his most difficult task was how to square the obligations of his faith with his indifference to his fellow men. |
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His main interest remained in the sciences, especially biology while he treated other school subjects with indifference, to the dismay of his demanding father. |
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Thus, the convention that Sovereigns do not attend Cabinet meetings was established primarily through royal indifference to the everyday tasks of governance. |
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That is, she has an amoral affectlessness, a serene indifference to the suffering of others, which she invites and dispassionately observes as tests of her power. |
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The indifference of the federal government, the totalism of military establishment and the impotence of the provincial government do not bode well for Balochistan. |
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It is important to note here that the ability to tailor one's response to indifference, disdain, covert and overt disaffirmation is, in and of itself, a function of privilege. |
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There his knowledge of the period and his deep interest in the psychology of the Camisards cannot be disguised or suppressed in the name of dandified indifference. |
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