apathy

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 ● Oct. 13, 2026

As a team, we believed that inspiration erodes apathy and yields empathy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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

New Orleans is. on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

But European civilization, as Shirer's people embody it, has become a complex of nostalgias, apathies, pleasant habits.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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.

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