Be disinterested about his hobbies, and try to focus on something else like your own hobbies or studies.
Decision makers are expected by the public to be disinterested, and so disinterest (often understood as the "fair hearing") becomes an element of officials' legitimacy.
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.
The norm that is violated in such instances is disinterestedness, but we should ask why we want our decision makers to be disinterested, and whether there is a virtue in disinterest.
But these standards must be disinterested, legitimate and robust.
They are supposed to be disinterested brokers of information.
Suggesting that doctors might not always be disinterested policy advocates is a losing tactic.
Indeed, these "wise men" may not be disinterested parties; often they are drawn from the established elite.
McKinsey has said the federal law governing Puerto Rico's case, called Promesa, contains no provision requiring advisers to be disinterested.
The dignity code commanded its followers to be disinterested — to endeavor to put national interests above personal interests.
At Columbia, Mills promoted the idea that social scientists should not merely be disinterested observers engaged in research and theory but assert their social responsibility.
