apathy
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He described how the incredibly complex investigation as fundamentally poorly resourced "from start to finish", hampered by "indecision and apathy" from senior officers, as well as a lack of cooperation from UK Special Forces command.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
“A lot of apathy, for sure, because change hasn’t really happened here.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
In “Kitchen Confidential,” Bourdain describes his decision to head to Provincetown as an impulse motivated less by romantic desire than by general apathy.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
It’d make clearer the cost of voter apathy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 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
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But European civilization, as Shirer's people embody it, has become a complex of nostalgias, apathies, pleasant habits.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 Louis Berman M.D.
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 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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 Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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