Sentence examples for audience apathy from inspiring English sources

At the Reading Festival in 2009, singer Caleb Followill reacted to perceived audience apathy with a rant that ended with a middle-finger salute and a smashed guitar.

The most sophisticated shows, such as Tony Garnett's The Cops, meet with critical adoration but audience apathy, but I would not swap the eight seasons of NYPD Blue for the dozen or so Cops that were made.

But last weekend saw his latest comedy – Unfinished Business, a farce about a work trip which gets out of hand – become the biggest flop of his career so far, with toxic reviews and audience apathy.

But is the audience's resounding apathy deserved?

After killers circulated the bloggers' work beyond its original audience, outrage dimmed to apathy among many people, who considered the attacks reasonable punishment for what conservative Islam deems a capital crime.The nominally secular government did little to dispel the impression that the killings were disturbing but a minority concern.

It's hard, then, to argue with the sentiments expressed by one of the audience members, who feared that apathy would be a major enemy to the upcoming vote if the "debate" continues the way it has.

The general election attracted the lowest ever turnout of voters and, if any further proof of apathy were needed, audiences for election results programmes have plummeted over the past decade, according to new research.

The audience can say, "sorry, not hot enough" to Ashanti or Mariah Carey through their apathy, but if Jennifer Lopez gets an Astroglide shower, she gets to be important again. .

That apathy motivated Bruce to create more intimate work that she hoped American audiences would be able to relate to.

Repeated exposure to messages about animal cruelty may also, in the long run, result in the audience getting accustomed to such messages and they may eventually begin to ignore it due to emotional numbing or apathy.

"Apathy reigned".