Anyone who liked "Mondo Cane," she wrote, was "too restless and apathetic to pay attention to motivations and complications, cause and effect".
Pauline Kael, for one, wrote "Audiences that enjoy shocks and falsifications, the brutal series of titillations of a 'Mondo Cane,' one thrill after another, don't care any longer about the conventions of the past, and are too restless and apathetic to pay attention to motivations and complications, cause and effect".
She grabs the attention of apathetic onlookers and makes them think and talk about an issue that thrives in silence.
If they are unlucky, they will be in a roomful of apathetic dozers and chronic attention-seekers.
Although United were growing increasingly apathetic, the Super Cup was attracting some attention in Norwich, who only needed to avoid a two-goal defeat in their final game against Atkinson's side to progress to the semi-final.
That may be the case, but Daniel will have to work his ass off to get the attention of Peorians, a generally apathetic bunch.
"Aurora Borealis" stars Joshua Jackson as Duncan, a boring, damaged, apathetic 20-something whose major claim on our attention is the type of bathetic cuddliness perfected by wet puppies and Mark Ruffalo.
When, after time, they felt they were not getting enough attention for that hatred from an apathetic American public, they morphed their protests to include fallen American service persons.
That report helped bring attention to the belief that Americans were apathetic about politics and public life; rather, they felt pushed out.
Add to the noise connected devices around the home, at work, for leisure, all calling for your attention, and again you understand why consumers are apathetic towards IOT and connected objects in their current form.
And young people are increasingly apathetic about cars, which must compete with mobile phones and video games for their attention and money.
