apathy
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Non-motor symptoms include depression, anxiety, apathy, hallucinations, constipation, orthostatic hypotension, sleep disorders, loss of sense of smell, and cognitive impairments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 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
The musician has been receiving medication and treatment; but says the condition also comes with episodes of anxiety, depression, and apathy.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 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
With no traditions of organized political activity behind them and nobody to look to for help since the New Deal, they live in apathy and despair.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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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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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
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 Edna Henry Lee Turpin
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
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