indifferent

South Africa, the reigning two-time world champions, have gone into the past two World Cups on the back of indifferent form in the preceding years.

Douglass noted the paradox: For abolitionists Lincoln seemed “tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent,” yet by the measure of public sentiment he was obliged to weigh, Lincoln proved “swift, zealous, radical, and determined.”

Black actors, musicians and athletes sought to reach and engage with white Americans and policymakers alike who were uninformed about, or indifferent to, the sweeping impacts of segregation and state violence against Black people.

Prefontaine seems too self-aware to have been indifferent to these upheavals, but in these pages we never hear his views.

House of Guinness has already been compared to the likes of Succession, The Crown and Peaky Blinders but Knight is indifferent about how people compare it.