Sentence examples for passive indifference from inspiring English sources

But the crucial point is that this is the result of active choice, not passive indifference: people who don't want high-speed rail are not just indifferent to fast trains.

As in all such cases, there was a variety of views among residents, including passive indifference.

Even the excesses that are celebrated in It's So Easy seem to be delivered with a passive indifference.

When I say I'm not a fan of Doctor Who, I come from a place of passive indifference.

What is there for Ethan to get up for, in these crazy, mixed-up times, other than the steady dopamine drip of Assassin's Creed 4? Fight the good fight, Ethan, with passive indifference.

Unfortunately, it included the requisite lament about the president's inadequate "empathy" and an amazing criticism of the government's "historic indifference" and its "passive indifference" that "is as bad as active malice". The senator, 44, is just 30 months older than the "war on poverty" that President Johnson declared in January 1964.

All Cal's bad behavior is executed in a spirit of glum, passive-aggressive indifference.

Of all the qualities that might constitute a national character, it is surely the most passive, the closest to simple indifference.

Zimbardo's definition of "evil" includes passive tolerance through inaction or indifference.

Our national indifference toward and passive participation in the negative campaigning suggests a shift in our national values: from virtue to vice.

If we accept that children's enthusiasm for research runs the gamut from expressed assent, through silent assent, through indifference and then from passive dissent to active dissent, there are clear differences in the guidelines.