A Student of Baseball No one has ever accused Mr. Bush of being an intellectual, and the indifference to books started early.
Driven shamelessly by some academics à la Niall Ferguson (and feeding off some American intellectual laziness and historical indifference) this redux just does not do justice to the American wonder.
Williams' willful indifference to such intellectual conceits serves to make it sexier.
He was a voracious reader, and his major complaint about his instructors at Oxford University was their utter indifference to his unquenchable intellectual curiosity.
Iago is an extreme instance of the kind: that is to say, of diseased intellectual activity, with the most perfect indifference to moral good or evil, or rather with a decided preference of the latter, because it falls more readily in with this favourite propensity, gives greater zest to his thoughts and scope to his actions".
Jung's demon mocks him at every turn, deriding him for arrogance, a wide-ranging sexual appetite, indifference to his marriage and "intellectual priapism".
Two-and-a-half decades of rebellion in Kashmir have hardened the indifference of India's political and intellectual classes to the human cost of the country's repressive tactics in the valley.
Our political and intellectual elites midwifed the new "irrationalism" through a studied indifference to the emotional dislocation and economic suffering induced by modern capitalism.
The deliberate sabotage of computers is an act of depraved indifference to the physical security and economic and intellectual integrity of every person alive.
The former are aspects of human nature such as biases and indifference to truth which incline us to make intellectual mistakes.
Yet Malle directs it, and the whole film, unrelievedly earnestly, adding a sneer of world-weary indifference that plays like a pose but that pose has an intellectual foundation.
