apathy

“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

Others came up with captions including "Don't Look Up," a reference to the 2021 film starring Leonardo Di Caprio parodying societal apathy to the climate crisis.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

The police station head Rajiv Kumar has since been suspended for "negligence, apathy, and insensitivity", Begusarai police said.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

There was talk of amending the constitution to take this apathy into account.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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 — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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 Arthur Richard Shilleto

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices—made up of likings and dislikings—the veriest thrall to sympathies, apathies, antipathies.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb