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indifferent
1. A simple trip to the grocery store will be filled with episodes of bad drivers, poorly-timed traffic lights, crowded aisles, indifferent checkout clerks, and thin plastic grocery bags that rip too easily
2. After a couple of weeks he got over it and we settled down again, though he wasn’t interested in sex … I tried to seduce him a couple of times, but he just shook me off … not nastily or anything, just indifferent
3. This caller was certain that only some aphids are herded by ants and that most fly from place to place totally indifferent to what the ants have to say about it
4. Of course, this means that my knowledge of languages and secretarial skills is entirely indifferent to the company
5. It was on one of Smiler’s shifts, when his indifferent fist slammed into my kidneys again, that I decided darkness was the only answer
6. She seemed completely indifferent to the world outside her mind where I stood and watched
7. Ken Roach was indifferent to any outside stimuli, wrapped as he was in a blanket of personal suffering
8. they received some sort of petty retribution when you were indifferent all
9. There was a man that had grew indifferent with the world
10. Ken Roach was indifferent to
11. Bram shrugged his shoulders, apparently indifferent to the
12. Oh sure he’d always been indifferent to sentimental things, but he’d never gone out deliberately to hurt her before
13. beautiful, and the boys had been so indifferent about
14. In what manner this price is to be divided upon the different parts of the beast, is indifferent to the landlords and farmers, provided it is all paid to them
15. indifferent now but a keen talker
16. on the tour when he was known to be indifferent to such things? I
17. It is in a great measure indifferent to him from what place he carries on his trade ; and a very trifling disgust will make him remove his capital, and, together with it, all the industry which it supports, from one country to another
18. A frugal man, or a man eager to be rich, is said to love money ; and a careless, a generous, or a profuse man, is said to be indifferent about it
19. To dream that you are being indifferent suggests that you are trying to hide your true concerns
20. The more time passed, the more Lunarey learned about the world around her, and the more she became indifferent to the many question marks that floated around her head
21. The differences in the various schools seem to revolve around three philosophical concepts: whether people are independent or interdependent; whether the universe is friendly or indifferent to the individual and his or her fellow humans; and whether the best of humanity is of the heart or the head
22. It is a very singular government in which every member of the administration wishes to get out of the country, and consequently to have done with the government, as soon as he can, and to whose interest, the day after he has left it, and carried his whole fortune with him, it is perfectly indifferent though the whole country was swallowed up by an earthquake
23. Now, stranded here, outer-space was a cold, empty, utterly indifferent to suffering
24. In that indifferent space the image in his mind of himself decaying inside his suit
25. It was only then he was certain – that thing was not an integral part of the ship; escaping as if it were a real trapped spider, indifferent to him
26. No other sovereigns ever were, or, from the nature of things, ever could be, so perfectly indifferent about the happiness or misery of their subjects, the improvement or waste of their dominions, the glory or disgrace of their
27. From the insolence of office, too, they are frequently indifferent how they exercise it, and are very apt to censure or deprive him of his office wantonly and without any just cause
28. But when she met one guard's gaze he looked away, perhaps indifferent or embarrassed – she couldn’t be sure
29. The bottom line was though that we had become hardened and indifferent to death or even seeing people with the most appalling wounds and that was just another tragedy of this Gallipoli campaign
30. Not happy or even indifferent, but emotionally down
31. The distance of those provinces from the capital, from the principal seat of the great scramble of faction and ambition, makes them enter less into the views of any of the contending parties, and renders them more indifferent and impartial spectators of the conduct of all
32. Imbrahim marveled at her composure, and wished he could feel as coldly indifferent as she
33. He twitched an indifferent shoulder
34. “Those are Hollowcrest’s men, and these are the indifferent ones who said they’re just here to work and don’t care who’s in charge
35. indifferent to the unknown child; several of them, sons of the notables
36. It is often times, however, the result of self-destructive tendencies common to decaying cultures that have grown (morally) listless and (intellectually) indifferent to their (historic) traditions because of their (material) opulence, perhaps
37. Western intelligence agencies efforts to surveil and monitor the activities of Islamic terrorist operations have been compromised, in part, by democratic restrictions that otherwise provide certain (tactical) advantages to terrorist groups indifferent to the principles of rule of law
38. Written expressions are not (merely) impartial bystanders indifferent to an author‘s tireless efforts to create something meaningful or consonant with the author‘s intended designs; exhausting its own emotional and intellectual energies by sustaining elements of singular merit however dire or tiring such efforts might (otherwise) be
39. That crime rates have increased dramatically over the last forty years doesn‘t alter the principled argument that crime is indifferent to race or ethnicity
40. Such (thoughtless) attitudes are (especially) apparent among certain segments of our Youth who have grown indifferent, if not impervious, altogether, to nuance, irony and wit or subtle designs or delicate shadings that (otherwise) require a receptive imagination rather than taking ―everything‖ at their face value, (as many of them seem to do); conditioned as their minds often are by the requirements of material ―evidence‖ and visual ―proofs‖; neither able to draw inferences nor reach (meaningful) conclusions from underlying sources, opting, instead, for the path of least (perceptual) resistance
41. ) Adopting conspicuously faulty and (otherwise) self-serving reasoning conveniently side-steps a very important fact; that we all exist in a less than perfect world subject to changing fortunes and other unexpected events that routinely challenge our mettle; and that Nature, however, has its own inestimable manner of compensating each of us with an innate capacity to endure hardships and rise above our present condition however unfavorable or improbable our prospects for a ―better‖ life may appear and that an individual‘s threshold for suffering and privation oftentimes vary in proportion to that individual‘s (mental) endurance and acquired habits in spite of that individual‘s accustomed environment and in any event, such (gratuitous) impressions are problematical at best and should not serve as a litmus test in determining who should or should not be permitted to live or given an equal opportunity to exercise free choice(s) pre-empted by selfish motives indifferent to such rights; motives whose arbitrary designs are (otherwise) impervious to the apparent limits or consequences of questionable solutions whose (hardened) indifference to Life must inevitably diminish the (inherent) value a society confers upon its citizens regardless of their station in life
42. I understand that this is a difficult proposition from an American perspective indifferent, perhaps, to the hundreds of millions of people existing on this planet who either live or have lived in virtual bondage
43. A society in the throes of a Cultural War (or a War of Ideas), whose socially transmitted customs are under assault, is never quite apparent to the uninitiated, (unlike the attendant violence of civil wars, for example, whose apparent destruction of person and property, not to mention its deleterious effect on the economy, are much easier to assess), and whose consequential impact on that society‘s traditions (usually) take longer for an non-engaging or morally indifferent society to absorb
44. Their indifferent attitude (at times) has given force to indulgently ―tolerant‖ children, on the one hand, who have grown complacent in their (own) self-assuredness and distracted, fumbling parents who, however well-intentioned, don‘t seem to ‖get it‖
45. Republican Party elites oftentimes remain indifferent, except during the primary season, to blue collar voters seeking a viable alternative to a party that has abandoned its customary standards in favor of secular viewpoints (seemingly) at odds with ―working class‖ values
46. It was this party which was indifferent to aiding or rebuilding New Orleans, and its members on talk radio went out of their way to smear the mostly Black victims
47. ) Many presidents were indifferent, as in the California Indian genocide
48. Van Buren certainly was indifferent to Native lives
49. At the start of the war Lincoln feared trying to emancipate all slaves would alienate the border states and large parts of the north hostile or indifferent to abolitionism
50. She’d be as indifferent and cool with him as his cavalier attitude regarding meeting her showed him to be – and she wasn’t going to show up looking like this