In fiction it means generally apolitical, domesticated narrative that remains willfully ignorant of modernism (the highbrow style doesn't work with the guild's self-presentation), leaning strongly toward the confessional, memoiristic, autobiographical, narcissistic, and plainly understood.
"He was an apolitical, which means he was willing to go after whoever it was without regard to party," she added, "and I'm not sure we're going to see that again in the new future".
The Nobel prizes are meant to be apolitical, and are awarded independently of one another.
Falk says, "Michael is definitely apolitical," and he means it as a recommendation.
McConnell claims to be "apolitical," by which he means nonpartisan.
Morello began his own solo career in 2003, playing political acoustic folk music at open-mic nights and various clubs under the alias The Nightwatchman, which he formed as a means to make political music while playing apolitical music with Audioslave.
The IOC has fiercely resisted any attempt to officially commemorate the Munich massacre during the Games itself, arguing that doing so would politicise what is meant to be an apolitical competition.
The point was made: If you want to display art in an American city through legitimate methods, that means opening yourself up to censorship from corporations and politicians, particularly if your work isn't pretty and pleasantly apolitical.
"All of which means that at the dawn of the C.I.A.'s era of coups and nefarious plots," he writes, "America's most celebrated apolitical literary magazine served, in part, as a covert international weapon of soft power".
Director Brett Ratner meant the film to be more apolitical than activist, but its underdog story dovetailed nicely with the then-nascent Occupy Wall Street movement, something from which the filmmaker didn't shy away.
