apathy
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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
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
Yet those who work around him say that shouldn’t be confused with apathy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
It can be assumed, however, that their apathy was indeed one of the big-city variety.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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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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 Lamb, Charles
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
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
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
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