If he feels he's facing an uninterested or hostile audience, he will be vague, non-committal and withdrawn. |
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Many who had shelled out thousands for tickets seemed uninterested in the specifics of the game. |
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Many appeared unaware, or uninterested, that the film was based on a remarkable true story and believed the movie was too tame. |
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Cold, dark, quiet, unwelcoming, the bar staff are aloof and uninterested in the customers, save the taxi fare! |
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Andrew Motion has been sounded out, but has declared himself uninterested at present while he remains Poet Laureate. |
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Meanwhile, Ed tries to convince Joel to treat his ailing uncle Anku, a medicine man uninterested in the services of a western doctor. |
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A man with a walkie-talkie approached us, then two errant hounds frantic and uninterested in sandwiches. |
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The councillor found the pupils quite uninterested at first as they didn't seem to realise that the work of the council affects them. |
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And if the former Beatles were uninterested in their past, there was also the suggestion that the public were too. |
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She would often ring him and have nothing much to say or even sound bored and uninterested on the phone. |
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He is proudly uninterested in anyone or anything outside of his own limited experience. |
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When a freelance writer in his fifties or sixties once came in to pitch stories, uninterested senior editors shunted him down to Macfarlane. |
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Of course, Ballard has always disdained or been uninterested in ingratiating himself with any kind of literary social scene. |
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This data exposes as a fallacy the belief that most teens are somehow lazy, shiftless or just uninterested in work. |
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Lily had wanted to buy a new bathing suit and a few more tank tops, but she found herself uninterested all of a sudden. |
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Add to that the lingering effects of injuries, and the defending Pacific champion looked sluggish and uninterested. |
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Strangest of all, members seemed totally uninterested in an articulated belief. |
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Being the last period of the day, everyone looked just as uninterested as me in whatever the teacher was writing on the board. |
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Many foreign commentators focused on this issue, perhaps unaware that Italians are relatively uninterested in it. |
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Apathetic patients become unmotivated and uninterested in their surroundings. |
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Some mornings she lay in bed for hours, replaying the crash in her head, unmotivated to get up and uninterested in seeing herself on crutches. |
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It seemed to me that the project was going quite well, and so I was perturbed that Ed seemed uninterested. |
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It does not matter if you are uninterested in sport because the Hellenic Republic will have something to offer you. |
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Cordelia interrupted, highly uninterested in Wesley's recent lecture involving his frightening, sometimes sad, demonology expertise. |
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He's an amiable if laconic sort, seemingly uninterested in talking about himself. |
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Finally he spoke in a forced casual tone, causing her to turn, making his voice as flat and uninterested as possible. |
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Try telling the football fan jabbering on at full volume to an uninterested audience in the pub to tone it down and see where it gets you. |
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Seven were uninterested, three left the area, three were working and two said they were simply unable. |
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They are uninterested in whether these guerrillas terrorized the local population. |
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It shows how uninterested capitalism is in preserving, prolonging, or improving human life. |
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But if you're bored of the hype and uninterested in the gossip, there's always the music. |
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I tried to catch his eye, but, although he noticed me, he seemed uninterested in even acknowledging me, let alone starting in conversation. |
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Government leaders seem uninterested or unwilling to commit to program changes and guarantees. |
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He drank round the clock, became tense, excitable and uninterested in what he himself had created. |
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His manner was aloof, and he is said to have been uninterested in his family's concerns. |
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If the standard less-than-a-page short poem characteristically is uninterested, if not inarticulate, on the subject of time, it is no less implicated. |
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Ehlers may alienate those uninterested in being taken on a tour through dissonant post-classical territories, preferring instead a stay in pleasanter climes. |
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Houran's studies indicate that the most deeply obsessed also show signs of erotomania, the delusion of having a love affair with an unattainable or uninterested person. |
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The state sector must be given greater powers to defenestrate uninterested or just plain bad teachers, which would put it on a par with the private sector. |
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A person may appear uninterested and apathetic, and may quickly lose interest in the hobbies they previously enjoyed. |
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It is when regulators become distant from stakeholders, or are thought by stakeholders to be uninterested, that trouble begins. |
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The research also indicates that retailers are generally uninterested in the possibility of such replacement. |
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Those who claim to be uninterested in this type of partnership will see their relationship with the federal government unchanged. |
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I am disappointed that the responses have mostly been rather lukewarm and uninterested. |
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They may speak very little, even to loved ones, and may seem uninterested in what's going on around them. |
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The Swiss Confederation, however, was uninterested in such a competitive situation and refused to provide any financial aid. |
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If you don't give children age appropriate activities, they will become bored and uninterested in volunteering. |
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In other words, young voters continue to be uninformed about and uninterested in the political process. |
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She seemed uninterested, the Japanese felt, and lectured them irrelevantly on health issues. |
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It is also not true that the Council is inactive or even uninterested in the situation of fish stocks and fisheries in the Mediterranean. |
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At the same time, the Conservatives seem incapable or uninterested in doing anything about this. |
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But what's remarkable is that even government officials are uninterested in developing this kind of monitoring tool for budgetary expenditures. |
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There are some in these days who are uninterested in increasing their worth and their efficiency. |
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They are uninterested in negotiation. They have no interest in making themselves known before they act. |
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The two should be parallel but quite distinct bodies intrinsically uninterested in each other's personal success. |
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Were members of the program group uninterested in working, or were they unable to respond to the supplement offer for other reasons? |
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But though the arguments over fracking in the Fylde will continue to rage, large numbers of people remain either uninterested or uninformed. |
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The anecdotes should be fun, even for readers uninterested in the virtues of the torsion bar. |
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In stark contrast to her mostly male peers, Jane was supremely uninterested in camera equipment. |
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The attraction of having access to this information can be strong enough to get normally uninterested parties to the table. |
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But unlike other recent books in its genre, Unspeakable Things is markedly uninterested in converting its readers. |
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Young Henry, though, was ever feckless and irresponsible, concerned to cut a fine chivalric figure but utterly uninterested in the serious business of government. |
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Kirkwood is largely uninterested in the idea of heels that will blend in with a business suit. |
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Emily's on the rebound and uninterested in attachments, but Oliver is one smitten kitten, and he follows her around New York City, which is, luckily, uncrowded that afternoon. |
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Towards the end of the tour, Jahedi related a story in which a particularly uninterested group of senior citizens suddenly perked up as she was finishing a tour. |
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We went out to take some photographs in a marble courtyard replete with shrubbery and elephantine urns where uninterested figures dined al fresco. |
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You are savagely uninterested in all the things I am uninterested in. |
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The media have been uninterested in pursuing this story for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was its childlike proclivity to fall for misdirection. |
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And it was further indication that Republicans were uninterested in making deals with the other side. |
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The GOP is uninterested in major new spending programs, and moreover, they have public opinion on their side. |
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It's a book about the experience of war that is uninterested in the issues of war. |
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At school, Sayle was unacademic, uninterested and usually in trouble. |
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No one who works for me is an uncreative robot uninterested in science. |
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The comedian shakes my hand briefly, but seems distant and uninterested. |
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When staff do materialise they seem harassed and uninterested. |
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The woman was very vague to the point of being uninterested. |
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But the uninterested and the unmoved are massing everywhere. |
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Some people are just so unperceptive or just uninterested in their surroundings, I'm not even sure if she realised that other people were on the train with her. |
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I do think it's a usability issue, at least for the unversed and uninterested, for whom trackbacks could be really important and useful tools if they weren't quite so obtuse. |
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At the beginning he seemed to be a little bit scared and uninterested. |
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Douglas, 68, found himself in the unusual position of competing for an Emmy rather than an Oscar after US studios proved uninterested in helping to fund Soderbergh's film. |
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Yet one topic Waters is uninterested in exploring is politics. |
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He was attracted to digital photography but was initially uninterested in architecture as a subject, owing to the typically unlively style of such shots. |
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Beveridge, at first uninterested and seeing the committee as a distraction from his work on manpower, accepted only reluctantly. |
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Baudelaire is uninterested in boy-girls or transvestites. His androgynes must be voluptuously female in body contour. |
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We were outplayed, outmuscled and offered barely anything going forward with a number of players uninterested. |
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Being poor does not mean being uncultured or uninterested in culture. |
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He was a war correspondent uninterested in weapons. |
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We have players and a coach who seems to be demotivated, even uninterested. |
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I am not totally uninterested in Anglo-Saxon history. |
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But, chapping on about 120 doors across a couple of hours, about half of those the canvassers spoke to were either undecided or uninterested in casting a vote for either side. |
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Amal Khanum Gadjieva of the Bactria Cultural Centre in the capital says that the low quality of contemporary productions has left the post-Soviet generation uninterested in theatre. |
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While a cow may be uninterested, it cannot surely be disinterested, in the manner of a rational being for whom disinterest is the most passionate form of interest. |
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If the Court of Cassation does not immediately make use of these possibilities, it may appear to be uninterested in setting an example for the proper administration of justice. |
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He was uninterested in status, wealth or public recognition. |
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Canadians have had an interesting and enigmatic relationship with their history, blessed with little in the way of revolutionary conflict and often accused of being uninterested in their history. |
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As noted earlier, many of the incidents addressed by YJCs involve no identifiable victim, or a victim which is a large corporation uninterested in the YJC process. |
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Alberto was suddenly uninterested in the argument. |
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I was very uninterested in their bookkeeping. |
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You might think Mohamed is an unusual case, an outlier in a nation of apathetic young people disengaged from politics and uninterested in the world around them. |
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He is obviously uninterested and my attempt to talk a little about what I have read leaves him cold. |
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With Stanley Dwight uninterested in his son and often physically absent, John was raised primarily by his mother and maternal grandmother. |
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Weekend and summer elections find more of the population on holiday or uninterested in politics, and have lower turnouts. |
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This does not imply that the majority of the presidents were uninterested in archaeology. |
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While it was stressed that the working group is not intended to be imposed on uninterested Member States, many experts were opposed to establishing the working group nonetheless, due to the lack of support encountered. |
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This structure has been perceived as being uninterested in resolving the problems experienced by ordinary people or in making their lives easier, a situation which the Eurosceptics are busy exploiting. |
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The foreman who tries to give a complaint the brush-off is risking being thought of as too big for his boots, uninterested, or fearful of responsibility. |
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It shows a system that is corrupt, filled with self-serving placeholders, and uninterested in individual merit. |
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Now, in the Broadway-bound show, Jack has a new love interest: a Pulitzer daughter and newspaperwoman who is uninterested in writing for the society page. |
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Those who ask these questions often seem uninterested in helping to strengthen the capacity of the national office and to accompany a process of empowerment. |
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Clearly, the Conservative government is completely uninterested in the work of thousands of Quebeckers and Canadians who participated in the round tables. |
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Quebec Anglophones are not uninterested in being employed by government. |
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So I didn't know too much what to do, so I went around to the dealers at the time and oh, very, very lukewarm, very uninterested, really, very uninterested. |
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I was uninterested in the TV program, so I read a book instead. |
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Whether the memories have been turned into bizarre shrines, or forgotten and left to rot, you'd have to be totally uninterested in filmlore to find the place dull. |
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Agricultural productivity remained low despite efforts to introduce new techniques to what was for the most part an uninterested, exploited peasant and labouring groups. |
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Philip II's successor, Philip III, was a man of limited ability, uninterested in politics and preferring to delegate management of the empire to others. |
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