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Sentence Examples Voter apathy must be banished from next month's General Election, according to a York-based action group. Such is the official apathy that drought and food scarcities have found little space for intellectual discussions and strategic planning. What is the difference between revolution and murder and how can you rise above apathy in a world where there is nothing left to believe in? Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, this beautifully animated short ruminates on the topics of isolation, ignorance, loss and apathy. The very lamentable fact of the nation's interest in two talentless youngsters strangely makes their political apathy less lamentable. At the same time, dogs typically lack the worst human traits, including avarice, apathy, pettiness, and hatred. By the fall of 1956, the movement was in full decline-its strength sapped by controversy, petty infighting, and public apathy. In all the articles maligning students of the past two decades for apathy, the media rarely deign to mention this counterexample. Hidden beneath the mask of apathy, there is an unsuspected energy and a great human, moral and spiritual charge. Electoral apathy is of great concern and seems to reflect the disconnection and disenchantment that many doctors feel. Politicians who have issued intemperate attacks on the apathy of the young must think again. Moneyed big companies seem to almost thrive on residents' apathy and the sentiment that the worst is as good as done. Collective apathy towards the problems faced by our nation stems from the burden of self-aggrandizement. Amid voter apathy that doomed two previous efforts, Serbians voted for a president yesterday for the third time in a year. Sometimes a long period of whittling away at the front-runner can lead to boredom and apathy. This may also be due to the apathy, bordering on torpor, concerning most elements of conventional politics and theories of power. There is a lot of apathy at the club and the supporters are totally disenchanted. Faced with consumer ennui and apathy, Nike has decided to engage in a desperate effort to regain mindshare. Through misplaced moralism, political expediency, or apathy, America is ruinously mishandling the underground economy. How could such euphoria and triumphalism end only two years later in the political cul-de-sac of voter apathy? Show More Sentences Your hand lifts us from the depths of despair, the depths of apathy and depression, and the depths of fear. At first, she passed off her constant tiredness, apathy, sleeping problems, clumsiness and increasingly grouchy moodiness to overwork. I meant to post this yesterday, but apathy repeatedly bludgeoned me over the head with a large fluffy pillow. This political apathy enabled the ruling elites to exercise their authority unconstrained by popular pressure. Reverend Andy said he wasn't surprised that my zeal of the previous week had been replaced by sloth and apathy. The data also revealed a widespread apathy to the prospect of purchasing through social networks. The article broadens out from these beginnings into a savage attack on both political apathy and nakedly self-interested politicians. The race does not appear to be anywhere near close, which explains the voter apathy about these by-elections. Among other reasons, I'd be too afraid that people will get lulled into apathy again if reports about possible terrorist attempts get squelched. Not only that, but many observers noted that the low turn-out on elections day may be put down to the apathy of many potential voters. Instead of long explanatory diatribes on the reason for doing, or being, it spits out witty one-liners that cut the legs off apathy. And he says the apathy of drivers, who have been unwilling to help since the foot and mouth epidemic two years ago, must carry some of the blame. When we see our politicians acting in such a puerile and childish manner is it any wonder the country is awash with apathy and cynicism? It's a sneering analysis of the British political apathy that was prevalent at the time, and a blimmin' good indie-rock choon, too. The one thing I'm taking away from this experience is that apathy and passiveness don't make anything better. Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. I care more about people and not their cliquey groups, cultural fears and apathy. Repression after a while does not need imposition by the regime, it is more effective when self-imposed through fear, resignation and apathy. But the possibility that apathy may subvert anarchy does not absolve its inciters from responsibility. The various publics, having other interests or no inclination toward foreign matters short of war, tended toward apathy. Show More Sentences In the fight against apathy, inconsiderate behaviour and disrespect, let's try to remember manners don't cost a thing. Emotional impairments may include apathy, irritability, anxiety, fearfulness and depression. That is why it said that the opposite of love is not hate but indifference, our apathy to act, our coldness in commitment. One only may anticipate the finalities of existence with an enforced apathy. Even the seating plan, though, underlines one important reason for voter apathy. Respond with anger and pressure, not cynicism and apathy, when the Second Internationalists fail to act as their representatives. Whenever the general apathy characterising public servants gives way to zealousness, we smell something fishy. It appears that political scandal has created political apathy among Gen Xers. With this essay, I would have taken procrastination and apathy to new heights, but I never got round to bothering. Today, the profound thinker turns his attention to political apathy, and sees something dark filling the void. This passive resistance to change was the despair of the improving landowner, who tended to relapse into apathy after a few years of vain effort. With a federal election looming, a new organisation says they are tackling the heart of youth voter apathy. Thousands of children dying horrible deaths because the American people chose to wallow in apathy. Instead we have had the USA ignoring the apathy in their own land to make it to the final eight. We tend to view the impoverished with fear, discomfort, apathy, annoyance, callousness or resentment. You need to be fervent to shift the forces of apathy and disempowerment in the global entertainment culture. Yet these same people constantly tell us they despair of voter apathy and disengagement. And as a result, in place of the kindled hopes and artificially aroused excitement comes disillusion and apathy. Criticism can so easily turn into apathy, as disillusioned people become convinced that nothing can be done. Some people exude outright disinterest and apathy towards their country's films. Show More Sentences This could be due to apathy on the part of locals or lack of knowledge that they exist. The maintenance of equilibrium between limited pluralisms limits the effectiveness of the mobilization and can lead to apathy. As I look around me in Central Australia I see dreadful apathy towards education among Aboriginals. Seeing that fewer than half the EU electorate picked these MEP characters, is it any wonder that apathy abounds? They all add up, and insurers have a sneaky way of increasing renewal premiums each year, banking on your apathy not to move provider. From this deplorable apathy Cortes was roused by fresh advices urging his presence in Mexico. It would be an unforgivable tragedy for apathy to win the day and alter our sport for all time. The reaction to John Prescott's proposals for regional assemblies has run the gamut from apathy to antagonism. So now we have voter apathy across the board, adversely affecting both parties, and independent candidates fared worse. Slowly she becomes aware of his apathy and remoteness regarding their family. The fall in the number of people voting has very little to do with inconvenience, apathy or laziness in the electorate. I no longer maintain the harsh criticism that students harbour apathy or laziness. I stay with them through apathy and laziness, despite the fact that I could find a cheaper partner elsewhere. This doesn't seem to have come from apathy or resignation at the inevitability of this war. The early clinical picture may be complicated by comorbid depression, apathy, anxiety, and anhedonia. The implications of political apathy and cowardice are all the more significant for these revealing admissions. So Davis will begin his second term under clouds of apathy, if not antipathy. Bucking the national trend, 82 per cent of voters turned out, giving the lie to all the talk of voter apathy. However, we must also look at how much apathy there is within our community towards local politicians. He also signalled the need for politicians to combat public apathy by re-establishing trust. Show More Sentences So far, however, they have not been able to rouse their compatriots from their apathy. The reason people stay at home is apathy, cultivated by a belief they won't be listened to by the powers that be. She came to see me at a local clinic and I was very concerned about her, particularly her very marked apathy. Despondency and political apathy are not characteristic of people in the grip of nationalist zeal. Politicians blame the public for their apathy at election times but the public think it is the other way round. This shows apathy on the part of the Government to the problems of the common man. A project which aims to shape a rural community for future generations has met with apathy, says a group. The issue of student apathy has been tossed around a lot this past couple weeks. We may not be able to institute change, but apathy is the death of all dialogue and debate. I find it very difficult not to sink into a state of apathy when watching that, because it's the same day after day. I was reading about voter apathy, particularly amongst the young, the other day. That chasm is reflected as well in the widespread apathy of the public toward the election. In this day and age of political apathy, there's at least one group I respect. The apathy and lack of compassion he describes, are also present in our own US health care system. Indeed there does appear to be a great deal of apathy up until this weekend when a number of people attended a march in London. There is a lot of apathy and some residents are only just beginning to realise how much it will affect them. It was a dismal campaign characterised by public apathy and political evasiveness. They have a poor memory, which is the direct result of their general passiveness in world politics, as well as their general apathy towards their immediate environment. Apathy was probably the word she learned in school that day or had read in the latest book she was devouring. The dire fatalism that dominated the discourse then is gone, replaced largely with a practiced apathy. Show More Sentences That disenchantment is what leads to anger and apathy toward any involvement in the process. Slaughter's words don't imply malice or callousness or even apathy. And with Shaun, it is all about apathy and the zombification of society. The apathy, lack of understanding and political will and gross corruption in the government enhances the scope of the industry to continue with impunity. Plus, any band who produce We Care A Lot, a brutally fun hymn for the apathy generation is bound to grab any world-weary fifteen year old by the scruff of the neck. It is a measure of the theatre-going public's apathy that we sat quietly in our seats and didn't storm the stage and make everyone walk the plank. The traditional apathy and non-participation won out at the polls. Depression, with its symptoms of sadness, apathy, fatigue and negative thought patterns, can adversely affect healthy lifestyle habits and even medical treatment compliance. Apathy was so widespread that we had to cut the number of polling stations there. The shoes are the telling detail, proof that the song's protagonist has slipped from stability into a downward spiral of apathy and self-abnegation. Accusations and counter-accusations have been flung between leaders of the two parties, but both organizations blame their defeat on the apathy of the voters. Another reason for voter apathy is a lack of confidence in politicians. An incident from the summer of 1997, when the miners camped out at Gorbatyi Bridge and demanded that the government pay back wages, could serve as an example of their apathy. Then our season is over, and I can retreat into a world of apathy, occasional delight at victories over lesser teams and my arteries can begin to fur up at a lesser rate. Many of its newly appointed prefects lacked experience, old political divisions remained, and there was apathy in areas remote from the German threat. In contrast, this study indicates that Jamaican users universally perceive cannabis as an energizer, a motive power, never as an enervator that leads to apathy and immobility. Apologies for last week, but lethargy and apathy set in in a big way. Due to infrequent maintenance in recent decades, many of the city's grand structures are in terminal decay, undone by the vandalism of official apathy. And in both cases this angry minority has had far more influence than its numbers would suggest, largely because of the fecklessness of the left and the apathy of moderates. So, whereas what was required under a dictatorship was exceptional courage, what citizens in democracies have to do is overcome apathy and inertia. Show More Sentences The mass no-show came despite a flurry of ads encouraging participation, and a veritable blizzard of TV spots exploring the question of voter apathy, especially among youth. However, when I think about the problem of students' unawareness and apathy about actual change at Macalester, applying a similar solution seems absurd. One of the characteristics inherent in African elections is voter apathy. If you've ever despaired over the misuses and misunderstandings, and just plain apathy around punctuation these days then this book will delight you. The result is safe seats that lead to apathy and voter impotence, leading logically to ever-declining voter turnout. Two basic characteristics not related to memory are apathy and indifference or callousness. Overall, atomization bred apathy towards the higher state structure. Perhaps my recent attack of apathy isn't so atypical after all. They ended four hours and a couple hundred miles away in Virginia, succumbing to the normal internal tensions and apathy, the all-too-common whimper instead of a bang. There is also some concern that people in many of the new developments within the county may give way to apathy due to an unestablished affiliation with the area. As these exams don't count towards my final degree and I need to have scarcely even browsed any Classical texts to pass them I feel an utter apathy and lack of motivation. Unfortunately, the public attitude toward the First Amendment often extends beyond ignorance and apathy to outright hostility. Some news executives attribute this youthful apathy to information overload and the explosion of media options. Mason's failing marriage left him in a general malaise and with a sense of apathy, both of which interfered with his drumming. It was therefore incorrect to conclude that the relatively low turnout was entirely due to voter apathy. The colonists sank into apathy until the arrival of Alexander Campbell of Fonab, sent by the company to organise a defence. A kind of apathy took hold of us as we issued orders for all existing positions to be held on instructions from the highest authority. Swine influenza causes fever, apathy, anorexia and respiratory signs such as dyspnoea and sneezing, which affect both welfare and productivity. But the one that fizzled out amid widespread apathy on Friday was particularly unmemorable. Three years ago, he had an attack with dysarthria and truncal ataxia, and 2 years ago, he developed apathy. Show More Sentences In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Or is it the apathy of all Ecuadoreans who lost faith in a system many years ago? The delegation succeeded, even though prior Greek attempts to involve Rome in Greek affairs had been met with Roman apathy. Behavioral features include apathy, reclusivity, anhedonia, depression, delusions, and hallucinations. He complained of the evasive conduct of ministers and government apathy and complacency on factory reform. They require a surrounding which keeps them from sinking into apathy through tasks which they are able to solve and duties they can carry out. But we cannot expect a foreign nation to show that apathy to the answers of the President, which are more thrasonic than the addresses. Peguy believed Christianity's dominant eschatological traditions promoted bourgeois individualism and apathy in the face of suffering. Silence and apathy are key ingredients to a tasty helping of bigotry. Here, we report a case of chronic parenchymal NB presenting with chorea and apathy. Dubai Sherpas are not scared of heights, but are troubled by the apathy of the system back home. As in many Western democracies, voter apathy is a current concern, after a dramatic decline in election turnout around the end of the 20th century. The reason is not necessarily apathy, but a feeling of disempowerment. Kaido describes a 53-year-old Japanese lady whose index presentation was with vomiting, anuresis, and clouded conscious state on a background of 6 months of apathy. A settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent although transient affections of a partially cataleptical character, were the unusual diagnosis. Arciniegas and Anderson mentioned that the decrease in suicide attempts in people with PD may be related to the effects of bradykinesia, akinesia, bradyphrenia, and apathy. A subset of this category would be atheists who can be classified as people of acedia, those with spiritual apathy, who do not care if God exists. Examples from Classical Literature No anchoret, indeed, could claim for himself much more apathy towards all such allurements than he did at that period. Now, she was sunken in an apathy that saved her from the worst pangs of misery. She had drawn a shawl over her head and was sunk in the apathy of despair or drink. And the tired car settles down to apathy, for, after all, the incident is in its essence part of the dailiness of New York. Of these there was no trace in her eyes, only apathy, weariness, despondence. I have said that 'peace' is not apathy, that it is not indifference, that it is not self-absorption. Mr. Read's fondness was the saccharine that qualified the insipidity of his wife's apathy. It may even have twitted that board with its apathy in respect of trespassers. After all, were his individual opinions and doubts expressed in a manner forceful enough to diversify him from a porcine apathy? She has neuralgia and long stretches of apathy, and other ills. Bloom's psychopathic tendencies can be seen as a manifestation of society's apathy and obsession with violence and gruesomeness. I wish you could dismiss that apathy out of that countenance, and look rather more anxious about me. I remember for the most part only a dull agony, interchanging with apathy. My apathy was attacked with gradually increasing energy of praise. She did not speak again, falling back into her former state of apathy. An air of awestruck expectation had replaced their usual listless apathy. Then even that had ceased and I had dropped into vainglorious apathy. The land lay in a wan apathy of suffering, dumb, hopeless, drear. I scarcely knew whether to envy or commiserate their apathy. His whole object is to check those actions and uproot that apathy. Show More Sentences The governor of louisbourg complains of the apathy of the Acadians. As presented, his argument appears to be that the decline in the fortunes of the church is entirely down to apathy on the part of the laity. Being decidedly nettled herself, and longing to see him shake off the apathy that so altered him, Amy sharpened both tongue and pencil, and began. I thought I would find out if his apathy were real or only assumed, and tried to lead him to talk of his pets, a theme which had never failed to excite his attention. As they drew near to the village the old men and the women began to meet them, and now a scene ensued that proved the fallacy of the old fable of Indian apathy and stoicism. But to his surprise Willarski soon noticed that Pierre had lagged much behind the times, and had sunk, as he expressed it to himself, into apathy and egotism. Neuropsychological Constant depression Despair, deep apathy, outcome and tearfulness or or inappropriate long periods of euphoric mood elevated mood Note. We have become a nation of carpers and grumblers mired in apathy. Even the unmoved Athelstane had shown symptoms of shaking off his apathy, when, calling for a huge goblet of muscadine, he quaffed it to the health of the Disinherited Knight. Subsiding from it, he did not sink into his former intellectual apathy. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of apathy? Words that rhyme with apathy What is the plural of apathy? What is the adverb for apathy? What is the adjective for apathy? What is the noun for apathy? Translations for apathy Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words apathetically apathetic apatheia a passing fancy a part of apartness apatite apatosaurus APB APC ape apeak 6-letter Words Starting With a ap apa apat apath