Sentences with phrase «of apathetic»

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.

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.

No update (s) for the S8 + in UK yet either and TBQH Samsung's attitude towards its customers is quite appalling in this respect, I have an unlocked sim free S8 + and it will be my last Samsung phone, I've had enough of the apathetic attitude of Samsung who really couldn't give a «fig» once they have your hard earned cash.

But given the scope of the challenge presented by threats like climate change, we're going to need a lot more DeChristophers and plenty more protests at the White House — and many other, entirely novel modes of action that capture the imagination of an apathetic, wired - in generation — before the increasingly concentrated federal power structure will begin to respond.

In the context of ecological sustainability, after all, passive construction is the opposite of apathetic — it's an aggressive, conscientious effort to battle the planet's energy problems from the ground up.

Two artists named Jana Cruder and Matthew LaPenta have created an art installation called «Natural Plasticity,» with which they hope to wake the general public out of its apathetic state and start noticing the waste all around.

Maybe it is a colleague agreeing to complete a task requested by their supervisor and their Hangout response of «ok» imprints an impression of an apathetic employee.

Rudd is playing the sort of apathetic smartass on which he's built a career, and he has some funny lines here (which feel ad - libbed).

Like when Derek and Hansel find themselves the target of an oversized prune bath at the hands of apathetic hipster fashionista Don Atari (Kyle Mooney).

At the conclusion, the message for the public to take away from this Community Unity Breakfast was the state of Rockland County's current condition can be attributed equally to the inaction of apathetic voters and to a few unprincipled political operatives.

All of these victories are the result of hard - fought public campaigns, in the face of apathetic governments.

There, Rivera and her team contended with a steady stream of apathetic students wearing earbuds.

In a TimesLedger Newspapers column published last week, William Lewis contended that Iannece's loss came as a result of apathetic voters throughout the 25th Assembly District, which stretches from Flushing to Douglaston and includes most of Bayside Hills, where Iannece lives.

The story sounds all too familiar: Bettws is emblematic of apathetic Britain.

Seems there are still plenty of apathetic minions of Arsene in existence despite many years of the same old rubbish.

That God «feels» our becoming in the depths of intensity denotes a God who is the very opposite of apathetic.

Not exact matches

They may be a lot of things but apathetic is not one of them.

Employees spend the majority of their waking lives at work where they spend the majority of their time apathetic and uninspired.

Some support their government; others are apathetic or downright skeptical, and some even leave in search of a better life.

That's not to say the participants enjoyed being apathetically bored... Apathetic boredom was more like depression in that participants felt flat and incapable of emotion.»

Shame, shame — on all of us for what is transpiring before our apathetic eyes.

As a result, legitimate businesses are likely to suffer because of this ignorance whilst the real bad actors are unaffected and apathetic to the new implementations.

Just how accurate — or fair — is the general characterization of this up - and - coming generation as affected and apathetic?

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada's 2017 National Opinion Poll, Canadian Millennial Views on Asia, highlighted that millennials — often stereotyped as being disengaged or apathetic to world affairs — have more open and diverse views about Asia than their elders.

The apathetic marketer will denounce link building as being too complex to approach, and the frugal marketer will see the costs of link building — which often run up to thousands of dollars per month — and immediately write it off as too expensive.

«If you go back five years, literally, tech companies were so apathetic about the political environment and just wanted to avoid politics,» said Conway, one of the earliest investors in companies like Google and PayPal.

But it's always puzzled me that no matter how apathetic people are about politics, international news, or even the general artistic climate of the country, they always seem to have an opinion about music.

As long as those with empathy for others, outnumber the apathetic ones, I have hope for the survival of mankind, long after I'm dead and gone.

The actual RC church would be reduced to an apathetic cluster in W. Europe + a smattering across the US, and we would probably see another pope elected to preside over the rest, something that hasn't been seen since the «Babylonian Captivity» of the Avignon Popes.

I could claim God's nature is always changing and that God's nature is apathetic or malevolent with the same degree of support.

Suddenly, my sense of worth was lost, and I became apathetic toward my drinking habits.

Some people due to lack of maturity could become apathetic and / or grow to be fearful of people that are mentally challenged... So many doctors, scholars and plain regular folks have discarded the idea linking demonic possession (spiritual) to mental illness (scientific) for fear that some people may become dismissive and even abusive toward others within our society.

With this step from unconsciousness to consciousness, from apathetic hopelessness regarding ones fate to faith in the liberating God of the poor, the quality of poverty also changes because one's relationship to it changes.21

The Greek word is apathes, akin to the English «apathetic,» conveying an absence of passion, an unfeeling indifference.

You have yet to directly respond to the specific points I've made at least three times now, i.e.: 1) the immutable good nature argument is simply unsupported definitional fiat (god can be equally described as malevolent or apathetic with equal support); 2) the immutable good nature argument presents a source of morality beyond god's direct control placing the argument in the god says so because it is good prong of the dilemma; and 3) the argument suggests god is not omnipotent because god is constrained to only a limited set of potential behaviors.

I understand the argument is straightforward, but it is: 1) based in definitional fiat (there is equally valid evidence to suggest that god is malevolent or simply apathetic); 2) actually embraces the god says so because it is good prong of the dilemma; and 3) attempts to constrain god by limiting god's possible range of choice.

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).

We are realists, we will do our best, but the People of God number many weak, apathetic, confused and carnal members.

This division of the Church results in apathetic congregations, and congregations suspected of «charismaticism.»

For example, black pastors question how the Society for the Study of Black Religion really can understand the religion of blacks when absent from this group are black preachers who minister to those who are unemployed, underemployed, addicted to alcohol and drugs, illiterate and apathetic.

If they awaken to their need for the transcendent while in the proximity of sound religious practices, they may actually become faithful participants instead of joining the wide ranks of the religiously apathetic.

Given the right conditions, an ineffective President, rising gas prices, rising cost of living, an apathetic electorate let down and hurting economically.

On a sleepy Sunday morning, with a listless service and an apathetic sermon, one too easily may forget that the driving power of Christianity has lain in the courageous and combative Personality who founded it, the adventurous faith which has sustained it, and the brave people who have been its glory.

Forty - five years later, with so many mainstream Protestants apathetic or uncertain about the meaning of «foreign missions,» it is hard to re-create a climate in which missionary thought played such a vivid role.

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.

They may be angry unchurched Catholics or apathetic unchurched Presbyterians, but they still think of themselves as Catholics and Presbyterians.

Super Bowl weekend is upon us, and chances are, you fall into one of two categories: excited or apathetic.

Tocqueville employs this insight to describe the emotional detachment that comes from the modern, democratic erosion of the social ties that have aristocratically or traditionally bound people to each other: Individualism, Tocqueville explains, is the «heart disease» that causes apathetic, asocial immersion in the present.

Although we had few friends, and surprisingly few real enemies, there was no shortage of the disgusted, apathetic, and unhelpful.

Religion can be easygoing, apathetic about the world's need, a kind of modern monasticism that retreats from the challenging problems of society and seeks only peace of mind.