Sentences with phrase «as disinterest»

Checking your phone for any reason between questions can come across as disinterest in the position / company and is extremely unprofessional.

On a similar note, many single women use their inactivity as a shield that can easily be misinterpreted as disinterest.

Some people might even misinterpret your openness as disinterest in pursuing these ideas on your part — a sort of invitation to others to experiment.

It could be as simple as disinterest, yawning, increased fussiness and rubbing eyes.

In other words, try to interpret the stressful conflict as a disinterested party, hearing about it for the first time.

Clearly, the philanthropist has a sincere interest in the welfare of his fellow men, and this interest is normally presented as disinterested: all the philanthropist wants to see is happy fellow humans.

Perhaps it's time to challenge our beliefs about God (if we've seen him as disinterested or unavailable) and re-evaluate our own identity (if we tend to see ourselves as hopeless or unlovable).

As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator.

«Society has put so much trust into academia as a disinterested, objective, honorable, above - the - fray institution — and researchers are like that, too,» he continues.

Washburn's quite legitimate concern, which I share, is that the university's roles as a disinterested arbiter of knowledge and society's thoughtful critic could be lost in an environment that is increasingly dominated by the university's unrestrained search for increased resources.

The problem was that I was so successful at playing this role that I actually came across as disinterested (I later learned).

Obviously if you're sat on your phone throughout an entire date, you are not engaging with the person you are with and can come across as disinterested.

If you spend the first date failing to ask and answer questions, you'll come across as disinterested.

Add to that the fact that Katniss is uncharacteristically passive throughout the movie, sitting in the back bleachers while the plot unfolds around her and at her, and often seems as disinterested as we are.

This movie might also be described as a disinterested treatment of obsession, as if these talented actors were thinking about their lunch breaks while trying to convey extreme states of passion and emotion.

Some explained his appearance as disinterested, some as stoned and some as superbly deconstructionist.

The film may be as disinterested with him as it is elsewhere, but the actor is as unispired as the film itself.

But another group of stakeholders shares many of the same values on assessments that educators do — a group that it is hard to characterize as disinterested in accountability: Parents.

And I have serious reservations about the way in which on the one hand Google is selling its services as a disinterested engine for discovery and real sales through linked bookstores, and on the other is on the verge of opening the largest and best indexed ebook store in existence.

Why the climate change contrarians in the U.S. latched onto M&M could be related to the fact that since M&M are not from the U.S. they could be perceived by the U.S. public as disinterested third parties and not politically partisan.

It is noble to stand up for those who may have been wronged, but don't present yourself as a disinterested party and cloak yourself in the guise of pure altruism when doing it.

While this is typical for my more introverted personality, I realized that it sometimes came off as disinterested or as me not making an effort to engage with my new family.

Becoming mindful and aware can help you to identify and observe the patterns in your relationship that may be contributing to feelings of anxiety, disconnection, frustration, and loneliness: your partner perpetually connected to their cell phone instead of you; days - on - end where one or both of you come home from work, too exhausted to connect over the events of the day; your partner coming across as disinterested or apparently too tired to truly listen to what you have to say and share with them.

Not exact matches

In the first case, it may be interpreted as a demonstration of a disinterest and lack of seriousness.

Showing up late leads people to think that you lack respect and tend to procrastinate, as well as being lazy or disinterested.

He said many boomers — far from being disinterested in or fearful of the latest tech — instead see it as the best way to connect with family and friends, particularly their children and grandchildren who see smartphones as the prime means of communication.

Disinterested media Press and TV comment shrinks as the public lose interest in shares.

As Independent editor Simon Kelner pointed out: «Whatever Brand may be, he's not trivial... [he] definitely articulates a strain of thinking among a growing number of young people who feel disenfranchised, disenchanted, disengaged and, most important, disinterested in the idea that politics can change the world.»

So just as I grew irritated with the pro-life movement for its inconsistency and simplistic solutions, I grew irritated with the pro-choice movement for its callousness and disinterest in discussing the very real ethical concerns surrounding the termination of a pregnancy.

The supposedly «scientific» and «disinterested» character of the historical - critical paradigm, for example, is increasingly recognized as a cover for a theologically tendentious agenda.

The report describes the liberating effect of the humanities as instilling the capacity to critique from a disinterested perspective — the Enlightenment contribution to education.

There is no such thing, of course, as completely disinterested or objective criticism.

It is not the Stoics» doctrine of God itself so much as the ethic of stoicism imposed upon the divine that has been utilized: to be utterly tranquil, unaffected by external exigencies, nonattached, disinterested — in short, apathetic (apatheia).

While both of these are dangerous in their one - sided approach to the material world, the former will hardly strike the disinterested observer as much of a threat to the American middle class.

«Of course it was influenced by the ahimsa of Jainism and Buddhism and of Gandhi's native Gujarat; it was influenced by the ideal of the Sermon on the Mount, as Gandhi understood that part of the New Testament; it was influenced by Ruskin and Thoreau and Tolstoy; it was influenced by the idea of disinterested service found in the nishkama karma [doing your duty without fear or favor] of the Gita.

As a result, we learn that Abraham's interest in the fate of Sodom is not disinterested; for Sodom is still the home of his nephew, Lot.

Now, in the further interest of National Security» or, in the Fast and Furious matter, for reasons that remain unjustified and murky» it pleases some on the secularist left (even those who once fiercely opposed the very «Patriot Act» that seems almost tame by comparison) to cultivate a quiet disinterest as the government accrues ever more power, without so much as a «do what, now?»

Being disinterested, in the sense of not measuring one's own success by the spiritual success of those we are discipling is a good thing; but disinterested is not the same as dispassionate.

As I read the Bible I notice God's relative disinterest in these types of things and of course He wants an eternal perspective.

I aimlessly wane to please be it as a toad speaking frivolously toward a crowded civility of comely genitalia looming upon the disinterested cracks fondling fervently and with much duress their next mealtime suckers.

The prevailing prudence and disinterest, say Reno and Hook, is better understood as «supine indolence.»

Cultural Hermeneutics: Classical biblical criticism understood itself as objective, disinterested and even scientific.

We are not to suppose that we are capable in this world of loving our enemies (or even our neighbours), to the full measure in which God has loved us; or of being as completely disinterested and single - minded, as pure of worldly desire and anxiety, and as unreserved in self - sacrifice, as the words of Jesus demand; and yet these are the standards by which all our actions are judged.

Subject - object history can not adequately understand events because the I of the historian is that of the disinterested spectator while the persons whom he describes are usually treated as Its rather than as Thous.

How easy it is to believe that one has disinterested concern for world peace as one becomes active in organizations that work for it, when others see that we care a great deal about our role in the organization and gaining recognition for our efforts!

As the text is not «timeless,» for all of its theological intentionality, so every commentator produces work that is «timeful» and surely not disinterested.

It was easy for me to look at him as a faraway King who was disinterested with my tiny problems because he had bigger things to deal with.

Intended to influence the two - party system constructively, the Disinterested Party would serve «as the organized and effective agency of progressive policies conceived and projected only for the well - being of the whole body politic,» and it would be «protected against decadence by its renunciation of officeholding and patronage.»

Intellectually, there are growing numbers of scientists, technicians, philosophers, and scholars who practice an «advocacy science and scholarship» which challenges head - on conceptions of science, technology, and scholarship as value neutral activities of pure and disinterested elites.

On the one hand, its advocates represent themselves as humble, disinterested seekers after objective truth — separators of facts from values.