Humanity, in his view, is a "vile, unhappy race, barely different from the apes," and relationships between people are "at best indifferent and more often cruel".
To us, the South Vietnamese population seemed at best indifferent and at worst hostile to their central government.
And when they were carted off to the camps, most of their Polish neighbours were at best indifferent, and at worst grateful.
This realisation pushes us, as urban practitioners, to rethink the roles of architects and planners in a context where the government is at best indifferent and at worst hostile to the local development of neighbourhoods.
Like the prophets before him, he is at best indifferent and at worst downright hostile to traditional forms of protection against defilement – washing, ringfencing the Sabbath from work, and so on.
But for Osborne, the summer budget conclusively buries and paves over the man who once criticised the Treasury for being "at best indifferent, and at worst obstructive" on environmental policy.
And when they were carted off to the camps, most of their Polish neighbours were at best indifferent, and at worst grateful to the Germans for ridding them of this pestilential presence.
It is as if all New York yearns to find a way through the air across a city that is encumbered, regulated, time-kept, pecuniary, at best indifferent and at worst a leering bully.
The report found the mother, known as Miss M, had been at best indifferent and at worst hostile to the council's support.
Yet the importance of this connection between the crisis and health already receives too little attention, and in the United States, we now face an emerging policy environment that is, at best, indifferent and, at worst, antagonistic to climate action.
