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Apathetic

adjective

Showing little or no emotion or animation.

Marked by a lack of interest. Synonym: indifferent. "The universe is neither hostile nor friendly; it is simply indifferent"

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"Apathetic" Quotes from Famous Books

... imperturbability of spirit continued in her now. It was as if some disillusion had frozen upon her, a hard disbelief. Part of her had gone cold, apathetic. She was too young, too baffled to understand, or even to know that she suffered much. And she was too ...

— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

... who very sensibly refrain from speech lest they should be set to earn their livings, we were careful to conceal our capabilities for a simple syllogism. Thus we were rarely taken by surprise, and so were considered by our disappointed elders to be apathetic and to lack the ...

— The Golden Age • Kenneth Grahame

... master of Paris. The army was all for him, the masses were apathetic, the rural population was on his side. A few weeks later a plebiscite ...

— France in the Nineteenth Century • Elizabeth Latimer

... To-morrow the tide would be at its work again, the ships go on, the sun shine warm and bright over all,—and he? For him to-morrow would be but the repetition of to-day; the same dragging hours, the same apathetic poring over books, the same half-hours at the organ with the music-books, playing sad melodies which accorded well with his own sombre feelings. He looked up at the portrait and sighed; remembered the dear one's dying ...

— Culm Rock - The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught • Glance Gaylord

... was prepared for determined opposition from his strong willed daughter, knew not whether to be most relieved or confounded by this apathetic submission. "I will leave the composition to you," said ...

— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

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