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 β Oct. 13, 2026
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 β 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 β Aug. 12, 2026
It’d make clearer the cost of voter apathy.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 22, 2026
From time to time, SS officers on motorcycles drove the length of the column to shake off the growing apathy: “Hold on! We’re almost there!”
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
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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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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
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
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 β Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
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.
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