I shall always have to go on feeling interested in them, sorry for them, wound up with them... Indifference was the answer; not to be upset or caught out or involved or understood-above all, not to be horribly, pawingly, understood.
I don't think feelings interest him very much.
At the same time, this procedure allowed me to check what was happening constantly, which cognitive emotional processes acted; and finally to know students' beliefs, values, feelings, interests, and ways of experiencing the various activities.
A kind of post-Sondheim protagonist, Newton is built, it seems, to feel nothing, or to neutralize everything that might cause feeling — or interest us.
My churchgoing experience was one filled with dread as I listened to the fire and brimstone messages being preached from the pulpit while I sat there feeling my interest in the bulge in a man's pants growing stronger than my interest in the breasts hidden beneath a woman's blouse.
Yet it's a big step from not feeling any interest in a writer to actively hating her, or professing that you do.
It isn't Rattigan's most perfect work but it's full of feeling and interest: it gives cause to welcome the rush of Rattigan productions that are being staged with an eye on the centenary of his birth.
"I immediately saw Nicholas up on the altar and I thought, 'Oh -- wow!' I definitely had this feeling of interest, but I thought, 'This is Ash Wednesday, and you've come here to pray,' so I went and prayed.
As he considers what to do, the story suddenly jumps forward, midsentence, to the civil servant looking back many years later, without much feeling or interest, at this posting as part of the larger story of his average life and typical career.
