apathy

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

It’s fine just to see Duplass as a gesture toward corporate apathy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

While the protest movement has largely been driven by younger supporters, there are signs of apathy among older match-going fans.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

In the Bronx, the idea of life’s impermanence underlined everything for kids my age—it drove some of us to a paralyzing apathy, stopped us from even thinking too far into the future.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

But European civilization, as Shirer's people embody it, has become a complex of nostalgias, apathies, pleasant habits.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

She learned more of Mrs. Grubb with every interview, and she knew that her enthusiasms were as discouraging as her apathies.

From Marm Lisa by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

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 — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What the great Luther called, without describing them, his 'tribulations'—those dreadful doubts and apathies which at times menace and darken the radiant fabric of faith, and fill the soul with nameless horrors.

From Wylder's Hand by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan