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Sentences ending with indifference
- And these movements, which ordinarily might have aroused her curiosity, if not her alarm, she watched with a profound indifference. [9]
- The question is, whether toleration is anything but indifference. [4]
- It is based upon utter indifference. [7]
- Often does she unfold herself in all her fascinating loveliness, presenting the most captivating charms; yet we find man frequently treats such purity of purpose with indifference. [5]
- And let them understand that we don't want any more of this cold indifference. [5]
- My offer of two sous is met with ridicule, but not with indifference. [4]
- Very naturally she took preoccupation for indifference. [9]
- If I choose to write for them, I do no injury to those for whom my personality is an object of indifference. [6]
- Before I was through, the fading sympathy had paled to indifference. [5]
- The question of the reduction in value of those sections was to him at this time a matter very nearly of indifference. [7]
Short sentences using indifference
- With indifference, too, to her! [9]
- Metaphysics, indifference to, 249. [6]
Sentences containing indifference two or more times
- However, he casually informed me, presently, that he was a member of the Walnut Street theater company--and he tried to say it with indifference, but the indifference was thin, and a mighty exultation showed through it. [5]
- But face to face with Marion Armour he saw what troubled his mind, and he determined he would not meet her irony with irony, her assumed indifference with indifference. [11]
More example sentences with the word indifference in them
- Myra was too young not to look wistful at my news, but the others pretended indifference, seeking to lessen my triumph. [9]
- I've no doubt you know something about them, and that you would maintain they are justified on account of the indifference of the public, and of other reasons, but I can cite an instance that is simply legalized thieving. [9]
- Even after three years of more or less intimacy between us, Farrar still wore his exterior of pessimism and indifference, the shell with which he chose to hide a naturally warm and affectionate disposition. [9]
- Edward the Sixth wondered if the spectacle of a king on his way to jail had ever encountered such marvellous indifference before. [5]
- Some said the woman showed the calmness and indifference of insanity. [5]
- She struck those who saw her by her fullness of life and beauty, combined with her indifference to everything about her. [2]
- The unheralded guest who is honored by mere indifference may think himself blessed with singular good-fortune. [6]
- As before, a white man sat with supreme indifference at a table, and in front of him three most unhappy chiefs squatted in the grass, the shame of their irons hidden under the blanket folds. [9]
- The conflagration, at which he had looked with so much indifference the evening before, had greatly increased during the night. [2]
- The criticism that we received for our best was evidently founded on such indifference or toleration that it was galling. [4]
- Then the quarto was published, and Ben Jonson awoke out of his long indifference and sang a song of praise and put it in the front of the book. [5]
- They were still wandering up and down, with fewer people about them, but with the same sense of solitude in their own breasts, and the same indifference from all around. [12]
- Nil admirari is very well for a North American Indian and his degenerate successor, who has grown too grand to admire anything but himself, and takes a cynical pride in his stolid indifference to everything worth reverencing or honoring. [6]
- Prince Bagration screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, "Is it worth while noticing trifles? [2]
- When France's great trouble came to her, and the nobles fled, or went to fight for the King in the Vendee, the old Duke, with a dreamy indifference to the opinion of Europe, had proclaimed alliance with the new Government. [11]
- I assumed indifference to the matter, laying the packet down upon my couch, and saying to him, "You will convey my thanks to Mademoiselle Duvarney for these books, whose chief value lies in the honourable housing they have had. [11]
- I even got to 'setting' her and letting the wheel go, entirely, while I vaingloriously turned my back and inspected the stem marks and hummed a tune, a sort of easy indifference which I had prodigiously admired in Bixby and other great pilots. [5]
- And this leads to a remark upon the shocking indifference of some novelists to the ordinary comfort of their characters. [4]
- From this indifference to a captive I augured no good. [9]
- Meanwhile Melissa had thrown off the indifference into which she had fallen, and her old doubts raised their warning heads with renewed force. [10]
- After we discovered this, we never went into ecstasies any more--we never admired any thing--we never showed any but impassible faces and stupid indifference in the presence of the sublimest wonders a guide had to display. [5]
- The indifference of the town pained him, and he was naturally not a little grieved at the lack of proper feeling of the country people of America towards those who would better their conditions. [9]
- During the night the dull indifference which she showed in the day abandoned her, and her attentive companion often heard her sobbing aloud. [10]
- I strayed about the decks, in and out of the saloons, wondering at the indifference of other passengers who sat reading in steamer-chairs or wrote last letters to be posted at Havre. [9]
- It seemed incredible that the majestic and awful Institution of the ages could be dissolved with no smoke or fire, with such infinite indifference, and so much spitting. [9]
- But he felt that he could not long succeed in maintaining a successful display of indifference, so he took leave of Miriam. [10]
- How easy at that early period to have silenced her by indifference, to have wounded her by a careless epithet, perhaps even to have crushed her as one puts his heel on a weed! [6]
- To all this talk, so far as it reached him, he was supremely indifferent, not only with the indifference which all gentlemen feel to the gossip of their inferiors, but with a charitable calmness which did not wonder or blame. [6]
- Think of the surly indifference of the storms that swept the forest and the waters, the earthquake chasms that engulfed him, the inundations that drowned him out of his miserable hiding-places, the pestilences that lay in wait for him, the unequal strife with ferocious animals! [6]
- Man, to be sure, is of very little account, and soon gets beyond his depth; but the society of the least human being is better than this gigantic indifference. [4]
- He thought of such a possible catastrophe with a singular indifference, in fact with a feeling almost like pleasure. [6]
- That, however, had stopped at last, for the woman had threatened the Royal Court, and the man, having no wish to face its summary convictions, thereafter conducted himself towards them both with a morose indifference. [11]
- He had a stoic indifference to events. [11]
- Several mountaineers, teamsters, stage-drivers, etc., drew near and dropped into the tableau and fell to surveying the money with that attractive indifference to formality which is noticeable in the hardy pioneer. [5]
- Her eyes again sparkled brightly, and the indifference with which she had regarded everything that happened to herself and those about her vanished. [10]
- I have long since observed that the fate of the house to which your father and mother belong is a matter of perfect indifference to you; and yet you would have to seek shelter and protection under its roof if your husband--" "Well, mother? [10]
- Steeled by her science, shielded by her philanthropy, schooled in indifference to love, it had come to her! [4]
- But the surprise rose higher still when the dame, with a body oozing easy indifference at every pore, but eyes that gave it all away by absolutely flaming with vanity, slowly unfolded an actual simon-pure tablecloth and spread it. [5]
- One thing Mr. Richard could not conceal from himself: Elsie had some new cause of indifference, at least, if not of aversion to him. [6]
- The young lady-teacher read them with a certain indifference of manner, as one reads proofs--noting defects of detail, but not commonly arrested by the matters treated of. [6]
- To meet the public eye, cross and tousled and disarranged, requires either indifference or courage. [4]
- Compared to what preoccupied him, was it not a matter of indifference whether he lived with his wife or not? [2]
- A strange indifference possessed him this morning--indifference to everything. [11]
- But as the porter might be an agent of our government in disguise, we preserved an appearance of philosophical indifference in his presence. [4]
- She had been piqued at his indifference to sentiment; she could not easily be content without worship, though she felt none. [11]
- He had no particular intention of doing mischief, but he had that indifference to consequences which is the next step above the inclination to crime. [6]
- It is his own neglect of his great opportunity of which he now speaks, and not merely the indolent indifference of others. [6]
- With this active opposition of those interested, and the astonishing indifference of the general public, it is easy to see why so little is done to relieve us of this intolerable burden. [4]
- For Uncle Tom on a summer's day to hire a surrey at Braintree's Livery Stable and drive thither was like--to what shall that bliss be compared in these days when we go to Europe with indifference? [9]
- I was tired of the sullen indifference of the ocean and the babbling egotism of the river, always hurrying along on its own private business. [6]
- If this feeling of indifference this absence of moral sense about the question prevails in the States, will it not be carried into the Territories? [7]
- If the Italian novels with which she was familiar did not lie, not only jealousy, but apparent indifference on the part of the beloved object, fanned the heart of man to burst into fresh flames. [10]
- I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper. [9]
- The movement was not part of a desire to evade him, as he fancied in his anger, but rather one of profound indifference, of profound weariness--the sunless deeps of sorrow. [9]
- But Euthymia was not a young woman to be looked upon with indifference. [6]
- But this particular night Wassef was bitter, and watched with stolid indifference the going down of the sun, the time when he usually said his prayers. [11]
- He has by nature that calmness and indifference which your people of culture have acquired. [4]
- But Paris and Nantes and Rouen and Havre abashed and discomfited him, played havoc with his self-esteem, confused his brain, and vexed him by formality, and, more than all, by their indifference to himself. [11]
- Had she taken my gift as a sign that my indifference was melting? [9]
- Evelyn maintained as much indifference to the domestic as to the worldly situation. [4]
- It was a most gaudy and gorgeous crowd, as to costumery, and very characteristic of the country and the time, in the way of high animal spirits, innocent indecencies of language, and happy-hearted indifference to morals. [5]
- Nothing, indeed, is more pitiable than the gradual drifting apart of people who have been dear to each other--a severance produced by change of views and of principle, and the substitution of indifference for sympathy. [4]
- We are not met upon a battle-field, except so far as every laborious achievement means a victory over opposition, indifference, selfishness, faintheartedness, and that great property of mind as well as matter,--inertia. [3]
- They had given me so much pleasure that I was vexed with the indifference with which some of my friends laid the works of the great humorist aside. [10]
- But the great majority of the people present showed entire indifference to the youth and his sorrows. [5]
- There sat Serapis, looking down in majestic indifference, as cold and unapproachable as if his sublime dignity was far removed above the petty doings of the crawling humanity at his feet; and the effect was as impressive now as it had been the evening before. [10]
- There was no longer abstraction, indifference, or apparent boredom, or disdain, or distant stare. [11]
- This seemed a little strange, and prompted me to try to discover what the cause of this unreasonable indifference was. [5]
- Hitherto he had listened to the tidings of battle which had reached his ears with an indifference that seemed intelligible and pardonable only when attributed to his wound. [10]
- I have not kept silence since the Presidential election from any party wantonness, or from any indifference to the anxiety that pervades the minds of men about the aspect of the political affairs of this country. [7]
- I believe there is no danger of its becoming the permanent policy of the country, for it is based on a public indifference. [7]
- The, whole thing is a matter of indifference to me, Miss Hawkins. [5]
- The very manner in which Iras and Alexas whispered together, without heeding her presence, boded peril, for courtiers show such contempt only to those whom they know are threatened with the indifference or resentment of the sovereign. [10]
- This may be in the nature of retaliation for the indifference to humanity taught by a certain school of political economists, but it is, nevertheless, one of the most alarming features of these times. [4]
- Be it said in passing that Mrs. Cooke had nothing to do with any of it, but exhibited an almost criminal indifference. [9]
- I have referred in another article to the anxious, feverish prosperity one beholds in London and Paris, to that apparent indifference, despite the presence on the streets of crowds of soldiers to the existence of a war of which one is ever aware. [9]
- He was uniformly if distantly courteous, and he was respected in his own profession for his uncommon powers and for an utter indifference as to whether he had cases in court or not. [11]
- On our way home I again spoke of it and was a good deal nettled at the indifference towards it which he manifested. [4]
- The Vekeel forced his way through them with cruel indifference. [10]
- At the end his voice became more vibrant--though he did not raise it--as he condemned the Railroad for its indifference to human life, for its contention that men were cheaper than rolling-stock. [9]
- He had had his chance in the old days, and he had thrown it away with insolent indifference, and an unpardonable contempt for the opinion of the world. [11]
- I find in him the highest art, and not that indifference to the great facts and deep currents and destinies of human life, that want of enthusiasm and sympathy, which has got the name of "art for art's sake. [4]
- She must calm herself ere entering the presence of the royal connoisseur whose approval could render her so happy, whose dissatisfaction or indifference would make her wretched. [10]
- Her mother thought her lifeless and insensible; she even went so far as to call her unwomanly in her indifference to what any other woman would regard as an opportunity for a brilliant career. [4]
- But she shook her head, her features assuming an expression of indifference and contempt. [10]
- She lay with her face to the sky, sending up an inarticulate lamentation; but the indifference of the officers forbade the notion of tragedy in her case. [8]
- Looking up for help in her dream, she could see nothing but her father's face, which looked aside with indifference. [10]
- Did you ever hear of the peace of mind, the lofty indifference and equanimity of the Stoic sages? [10]
- Charley's passiveness when he was assaulted by old Louis and afterwards threatened by the saddler seemed to her indifference to any sort of danger--the courage of the hopeless life, maybe. [11]
- This duty discharged, he subsided into the bosom of the family; and, entertaining himself with a strolling or peripatetic breakfast, watched, with genteel indifference, the process of loading the carriage. [12]
- He should return; he should not triumph in his self-righteousness, be a living reproach to her always by his careless indifference to everything that had ever been between them. [11]
- With perfect indifference he left the catering to the skillful and inventive cook; and hardly had he retired when Macrinus returned. [10]
- Do you know," he continued slowly and musingly, "I can look upon you now --yes, at this moment--with more indifference than you ever showed to me? [11]
- Her calmness must have been appalling: her own indifference to what might happen now,--if she could have realized it,--even more so. [9]
- His contemptuous indifference has deeply offended the heads of the town. [10]
- That little progress has been made is due to public indifference to a vital question and to the action of sentimentalists, who, in their philanthropic zeal; fancy that a radical reform can come without radical discipline. [4]
- If her manner had been merely one of indifference, it would in a way have been easier to bear; she was simply incapable of grasping the significance of the event, the meaning to me of the years of unceasing, ambitious effort it crowned. [9]
- That year I had a large number of hens, and Jacko went about among them with the most perfect indifference, never looking on them to lust after them, as I could see, and never touching an egg or a feather. [4]
- His superb indifference gratified my artistic feeling more than it wounded my personal sensibilities. [6]
- The others all followed, dispirited and shamefaced, and only much later were they able to regain their former affectation of indifference. [2]
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