indifference

• This indifference is a mortal sign for the country. —  Life Of Johnson, Volume 5
• Men whom Miranda had expected to increase his army failed to appear, and perhaps this indifference was aggravated by the antipathy with which the natives saw the foreign element which predominated in Miranda's army. —  Simon Bolivar, the Liberator
• But I have lived in far countries abroad, or in the agitating world at home, which was not favourable to study or reflection; so that almost all I have written has been mere passion,—passion, it is true, of different kinds, but always passion: for in me (if it be not an Irishism to say so) my indifference was a kind of passion, the result of experience, and not the philosophy of nature. —  Life of Lord Byron, With His Letters And Journals, Vol. 5
• I hear them continually complaining that our indifference is always the fruit of their complaisance for us. —  Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century
• This indifference is a fearful thing. —  The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866

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