A young, round-faced woman with sleepy eyes looks steadily at the viewer with level indifference and no small dose of pride.
And if players show indifference, viewers can hardly be blamed, especially as frequently lifeless games drag on with only a vague hope of excitement.
The most recent ceremony was widely criticized for overreaching in a search for younger viewers, and the seeming indifference of one of its co-hosts, James Franco.
It's the classic personal-narrative brand of Olympic coverage, one that attempts to overcome American viewers' ignorance and potential indifference toward these odd winter sports with a tidal wave of sentimentality.
If not proof of director David O. Russell's self-indulgence it is unmasked indifference for the viewer, whose creaky knees must endure more egregious time in that movie-theater seat.
But it is not necessary for Bronzino to have been among the geniuses of his time to make this show worth visiting.When viewed singly in art museums the chilly aloofness of a Bronzino portrait holds the viewer's gaze, conveying power, ferocity, indifference and invulnerability.
That dramatization of his emotions (impatience, irritation, indifference, boredom) is thrown back to viewers, who, put in the place of identifying with Michael as he interacts with people, who are depicted with a calculated banality, must then weigh their own emotional responses to the same characters and the same behavior.
But thanks to wildly pricey equipment and nothing much to watch on it, high def initially met with astonishing indifference among broadcasters, cable providers and viewers.
Cynthia Henebry, a photographer, took second place for "Mavis in the Backseat," a moody image of a young girl sitting pensively in a car, addressing the viewer with what may be irritation, or confusion, or indifference.
Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah" confronted viewers with the vast, unfathomable horror of genocide, emphasizing the indifference and complicity of European gentiles, a theme further explored in Marcel Ophuls's "Hotel Terminus" and "The Sorrow and the Pity".
Such news flashes offer viewers in placid, wealthy lands the option of responding with pity or indifference.
