Sentences with phrase «gets apathetic»

«Beyond barriers to learning outside the classroom in natural environments» reported that environmental - based education makes other school subjects rich and relevant and gets apathetic students excited about learning.

I get apathetic about my job unless I have frequent meetings.

Not exact matches

We all understand what happens when physical demand exceeds our available energy, but Groppel drives home what not having enough energy means in those other dimensions: we get frustrated and impatient; we lose focus and make bad decisions; we grow bored and apathetic.

It's probably the prairie kid thing, combined with the evangelical - mutt thing, but when acedia slinks into my soul, spreading into every corner of my life with an ooze, when my mind is fuzzy and apathetic, when I'm listless and worn out, burned out, on religion and parenting and marriage and family and everything about my life, I get to the daily, methodical, healing goodness of real work.

If Easter does anything for us this year, let it rouse us from our apathetic slumber and give us the energy to build some fires under George Bush and the 101st Congress before this new four - year period gets very far along.

Yet it also raises some questions about a frequent assumption: that during the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust, the world was silent and largely apathetic, and that mobilizing an effective response to such crises depends largely on informing people and getting them to care about what is happening elsewhere.

Do we congratulate Wenger for selecting Ramsay, dropping Wiltshire and Lacazette, getting out of Mhiki what Mouhinho failed to do and bringing Auba in (before anyone says the latter with help from people THAT OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN IN PLACE SEVERAL YEARS AGO had Gazidis not been so apathetic and / or bottled it!).

I find that my family doesn't get as apathetic towards the camera and will even start to ask me to take their photograph.

«The tendency for party faithful to get demoralised, disenchanted and apathetic as a result of this challenge is real and a difficult one to confront,» he lamented.

If the electorate turns the other way and becomes (as we have here in this state to a very large extent) apathetic from a conviction that the fix can never be taken out, then we get what we have.

Mr Corbyn's team, who are trying to engage previously apathetic voters, have trumpeted how many followers the Labour leader has on Twitter and the positive response he gets on social media.

He seemed very apathetic, did a couple of blood tests for diabetes and then said I was okay and that I needed to get a girlfriend in order to stimulate my testosterone again.

And yet: «I have a horrible feeling that I am a greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt woman who can't even call herself a feminist,» she blurts out to her arm's - length dad, to which he replies, «You get all that from your mother.»

However, the movie has been met with an apathetic appreciation, Winfrey getting the briefest of mentions in Empire's review.

The festival reviews have been mixed (here's Kurt's rather apathetic TIFF review), but now that the trailer for the film has dropped, those of us who didn't get a chance to see it during its festival run can get our first real glimpse of some footage.

It is surprising how even all the hyperactive children can enjoy the calm creation, how the generally apathetic children become alive and how kids with various disabilities get involved in drawing as well.

Attempted with a particularly apathetic bottom set year 10 group and got some decent Band 3s - I felt they left a lot out on the field so to speak.

No need for apologies — the districts got overly complacent and apathetic and you are providing a much needed reality check that will benefit kids, especially those that are chronically left behind.

One afternoon this spring, when my often apathetic 10th - graders were walking eagerly around the room as part of a writing assignment, an administrator came in and ordered me to get the class «seated and silent.»

When I got there, the sales person was apathetic, the replacement sales person he foisted us off on was eager, but woefully unprepared, and the car was not even on the lot, much less ready for me to see.

An apathetic loner in a nothing job, Daniel gets his kicks by hanging around Frank Redelinghuys, a criminal unfettered by normal rules of morality.

Although my experience with Assassin's Creed gets worse and worse, my previous apathetic stance on the sequel is starting to go away since I see the potential now.

Even if some availability entrepreneurs like Al Gore are mistakenly attributing isolated weather events to global warming, aren't they serving a noble purpose by getting an otherwise apathetic public to take action against a real problem?»

And for those who don't want to be apathetic, you get either fevered wheel spinning (complaining that it's all Bush's fault) or denial.

Once you have enough reviews, you can do simple math to get helpful data — what percentage of clients liked working with you, thought you were readily available or unavailable, or said you were supportive or apathetic?

If babies become apathetic, uninterested in people and unresponsive, or fail to gain weight, it is important to get help from a health professional.

Because, the silent, uneducated majority of apathetic voters only gets upset with its / their governments when things physically go off the rails, thus affecting the voters negatively in their pocket books.

Obviously this little history lesson makes our little war pale by comparison, but the over-all human nature aspect of the events leading up to WW 2 mirrors exactly what happens when apathetic folks in numbers get caught with their pants down, and their leaders think that they can negotiate with an entity that treats the negotiators» trust as a weapon against same.

Levelling at the lowest common denominator is what is happening... get used to it; it is the inevitable end result of an apathetic constituency which has had the wool pulled over its eyes, and has only recently responded to the darkness... too late.

When I get all worried that I have to add to it, I end up completely apathetic about it and instead of being driven to write, I end up completely ignoring it.