apathy
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Haynes, coupled with a fearless Julianne Moore, took down ’80s AIDS-era apathy and vapid Valley lifestyles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Investor apathy toward China stems from weak consumer spending and bank loan growth, and increased US-China trade restrictions.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
The public’s drift from space, he argued, wasn’t the apathy of a tired people but the disappointment of a hopeful one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Fashioning your lead actor as a totem to project your thoughts about apathy and loneliness would be a risky move for anyone other than writer-director Amanda Kramer, who’s made a career out of brazen chicness.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
When this stage is reached, shivering ceases as the body just gives up and apathy takes over.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
But European civilization, as Shirer's people embody it, has become a complex of nostalgias, apathies, pleasant habits.
From Time Magazine Archive
After interviews have been compassed with long foresight, we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden, unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heyday of friendship and thought.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee
Among the commonest manifestations of insanity are excitements and depressions, apathies and manias, hallucinations, delusions and obsessions, all of which are reproducible under known conditions of internal secretion excess or failure.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
The next news I had of him was in his essay, "Ordered South," concerning the emotions, apathies, and pleasures, on that then fairy coast, of a young man who thinks that his days are numbered.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew
And yet again they seem to use words rightly when they call those joys and wishes and cautions not apathies but good conditions of the mind.
From Plutarch's Morals by Shilleto, Arthur Richard
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