apathies

To make real this striving amid dangers and apathies is work for a younger intelligentsia of America.

Trans-national America 1969

To make real this striving amid dangers and apathies is work for a younger intelligentsia of America.

Trans-national America 1916

What the great Luther called, without describing them, his ‘tribulations’ — those dreadful doubts and apathies which at times menace and darken the radiant fabric of faith, and fill the soul with nameless horrors.

Wylder's Hand 2003

And yet again they seem to use words rightly when they call those joys and wishes and cautions not apathies but good conditions of the mind.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

Personality there, a Personality with apathies and antipathies, with prejudices and predilections.

Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden, unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the hey-dey of friendship and thought.

VI. Essays. Friendship. 1841 1909

The next news I had of him was in his essay, "Ordered South," concerning the emotions, apathies, and pleasures, on that then fairy coast, of a young man who thinks that his days are numbered.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

But that there is no such life, nothing but a galvanic restlessness and covetousness, with which it is for the present vain to strive; and in the midst of which, tormented at once by its activities and its apathies, having their work continually thrust aside and dishonored, always seen to disadvantage, and overtopped by huge masses, discordant and destructive, even the best architects must be unable to do justice to their own powers.

On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden, unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heyday of friendship and thought.

Essays — First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

After interviews have been compassed with long foresight, we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden, unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heyday of friendship and thought.

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842