unconcernedness

• “You would have thought so, said Sir Hargrave, had you observed with what a sleight, and with what unconcernedness, he pushed down my drawn sword with his hand (though he would grant me nothing) and took me under the arm, and led me in to you, as though he had taken me prisoner.”

  Sir Charles Grandison

• “Why, playing gently upon my harpsichord; and humming to it, to shew her unconcernedness.”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “If a man invites young men, citizens, or acquaintance, they should (as Timon says) be accustomed to be content with any place, without ceremony or concernment; and this good nature and unconcernedness would be an excellent means to preserve and increase friendship.”

  Essays and Miscellanies

• “This unconcernedness never failed to provoke laughter, even from those who administered rebukes to him.”

  The Life of Sir Richard Burton

• “Can we create it without labor discipline in the midst of chaos, anarchy, without working, with unconcernedness?”

  STATEMENT AT 3RD CONGRESS OF CUBA'S COMMUNIST PA

• “There is a partial hardness upon us from the fear of the Lord, in that general and almost universal unconcernedness that is upon us about the sins of other men.”

  The Sermons of John Owen

• “All which he spoke of with an unconcernedness scarce to be conceived, and as it were rather out of curiosity than that he thought himself in any danger of eternal punishment hereafter.”

  Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

• “When in Newgate he affected a most unreasonable gaiety and unconcernedness in his behaviour, although the circumstances were so strong against him as occasioned it to prevail as the general opinion that he would be convicted.”

  Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

• “In a vague and unexpressed way, as they show again and again by their cheerfulness and unconcernedness, hosts of men in this war have laid hold on this law.”

  Thoughts on religion at the front

• “If some defect in his constitution has cast a damp on his mind, and he be naturally listless and dreaming, this unpromising disposition is none of the easiest to be dealt with, because, generally carrying with it an unconcernedness for the future, it wants the two great springs of action, foresight and desire; which how to plant and increase, where nature has given a cold and contrary temper, will be the question.”

  Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 121-130

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