What is "unconcern"

Usage examples of "unconcern".

Mompessons, yet I was met by the same cruel unconcern that I had experienced in seeing the design on the pannel of the carriage belonging to Sir Perceval that had so alarmed my mother all those many years ago.

George neither spoke to nor looked at Legree, who did not countermand his orders, but stood, whistling, with an air of forced unconcern.

He thought of the casual sinning committed with apparent unconcern by John Tinker Meadows and Joseph Deets, and he tried to convince himself that their sins, because there was no repentance or atonement, were greater than his own.

She opened her eyes, and we all started as she said, sweetly and seemingly with the utmost unconcern.

Although casualties could be expected in the Virginia campaign, and enemies of the Blair family were ready to criticize any party-giving in the midst of war, he thought it important to show confidence in the country and unconcern about criticism.

Thus as she watched Wittle settle herself on her bundle for sleep in the early morning Kelsie wondered at the unconcern of the witch.

Christine watched them with unconcern, and either because she would not be governed by the general movement, or because she liked being with Beaton, gave no sign of going.

Perhaps it was because they had already dined on fat sheep, or perhaps it was as the awed Master of Horse saidthat a mysterious affinity for dragons allowed the colt to gambol about among them with perfect unconcern.

The Ja ck that t e lls us to stand and w atch a s a Catherine Genovese gets k n i f ed, the Jack that condones Vietnam because we don’t care to get i n volved, the Jack that watches the geno c ide of the Bla c k Panthers with righteous unconcern, the Jack who accepts a My Lai slaught er as the “fortunes of war,” the Jack that we need.

It is surprising to see with what fearless unconcern these savages venture in their light barks upon the roughest and most tempestuous seas.

The hundred Tarf, in quiet ranks, blinked in mild unconcern at the townsfolk.

Attitudes ranged from the conscious withdrawal of the acid hippie, through the ignorant unconcern of the teeny-bopper, to the intense involvement of the New Left activist and the politics-of-the-absurd activities of groupings like the Dutch provos, the Crazies, and the guerrilla theater crowd.

Zhobelia nodded approvingly at the re-pointed orchard wall, but tutted over the state of the grass on the lawn in front of the greenhouses and verbally scolded the two goats concerned, which lay on the grass, chewing the cud and looking at us with insolent unconcern.

Roberts’s eyes slid out of focus, his brows unknitted, and a took of dreamy unconcern fell over his face.

Roberts's eyes slid out of focus, his brows unknitted, and a took of dreamy unconcern fell over his face.