Impassiveness

Usage examples of apathy.

It was a curious proof of the mischievousness as well as of the extent of the influence which Madame Adelaide and her sister were able to exert over the indolence and apathy of their father, that when Marie Antoinette had for more than two years been married and living within twelve miles of Paris, she had never yet seen it by daylight, although the universal and natural expectation of the citizens had been that the royal pair would pay the city a state visit immediately after their marriage.

Louis, which might induce him to rouse himself from his ordinary apathy and reserve, and make him more of a man of the world and more of a companion for her.

What was probably as painful to Marie Antoinette as these occurrences themselves was the apathy with which the king regarded them.

Ida did not see them at first, and Van Berg was again struck by the pallor and stony apathy of her face.

It seemed as if nothing could rouse or sting her out of the dull apathy into which she had reacted after the desperate excitement of the preceding day.

Instead of going down to supper she returned to the solitude of her own room, but the apathy of the earlier part of the day had vanished utterly.

For a long time she sat in dreary apathy, almost as motionless as the mossy rock beneath her, and was conscious only of her throbbing forehead and aching heart.

Croatia descended into political apathy from which it did not emerge for almost two decades.

Catholic church remained the only guardian of the Croatian spirit in the national apathy that spread during the 1970s.

Horton went to see her every day--felt the feeble little pulse which seemed hardly to have force enough to beat--urged her to struggle against apathy and inertia, to walk a little, to go for a long drive every day, to live in the open air--to which instructions she paid not the slightest attention.

Everywhere I encountered fatalism, apathy, lost communications, broken-up regiments, and confusion over orders.

The transportees, sunk in wretched apathy, doze or stare about in the asphyxiating miasma.

Omnius may yet win--not through military strength, but through the apathy weakening our forces.

It took the murder of my son and an extraordinary rallying effort to make people fight back against the thinking machines, after so many centuries of apathy and lack of initiative.

They refer only to ordinary events, but contain some expressions which denote the ardency of his patriotism, and the disappointments to which it was not unfrequently subjected in consequence of the apathy of others.