Sentence examples for disinterested that from inspiring English sources

The title of Bourdieu's book is an implicit critique of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who argued that taste could be disinterested, that is, that it could have no agenda.

Rundgren felt that the band seemed distracted and disinterested at that point, so he tried unsuccessfully to ban them from the mixing session.

It doesn't matter what Webster's Third tells me: I will always feel superior to a person who says, "I am totally disinterested in that subject" (though I will also strive to treat that individual with the dignity and respect owed to any human being).

How many apps they're downloading, how much time they're spending finding new applications — it's just that people are getting a little bit disinterested in that.

During their playoff drought, the Rangers have often been criticized as being an old, overpriced team of disinterested mercenaries that rarely displayed a knack for developing its own players.

The state functions as an objective, disinterested institution that resolves disputes about individual property and enforces compliance with those determinations.

Unlike Whiting, however, Brink does not think love can be understood to be a matter of disinterested affection: that would be to "assign only extrinsic significance to special concern.…By contrast, common sense attaches intrinsic significance to special relationships" (1999, p. 269).

He appears to be the ideal disinterested observer; that is, he follows the arguments wherever they lead and has no personal stake in the outcome.

It is through the adoption of a disinterested stance that audits (auditors and those who promote the audit as a style of evaluation, management and quality control/ assurance) purport to care.

One doesn't instinctively imagine that the marginalized LGBT communities of that scene or the more generally religiously-disinterested that populate today's clubs would respond positively to, say, the titular refrain of Belson favorite 'Give Yourself To Jesus' by Herman Harris, no matter how sublime its mid-tempo groove is.

One doesn't instinctively imagine that the marginalised LGBT communities of that scene or the more generally religiously-disinterested that populate today's clubs would respond positively to, say, the titular refrain of Belson favourite 'Give Yourself To Jesus' by Herman Harris, no matter how sublime its mid-tempo groove is.