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Like Phillips, I suspect that something interesting lies in the seed of uninterest, in the position of those who do not share the assumptions of this sexual world.
A likely reason for this wall of uninterest on so many important issues is that the disasters involved are often bipartisan in nature, with both Democrats and Republicans being culpable and therefore equally eager to hide their mistakes.
Sutherland, on the other hand, contends that silence "need not imply family guilt [...] so much as the bored uninterest of the other young people" (xxx), and Boulukos agrees that the "dead silence" "is not the silence of shock or hostility, but the silence of indifference, or a failure of moral engagement, on the part of the younger generation of Bertrams" (5).
The report sums up the Bowdoin curriculum of equal courses as having a certain "flatness" and tending toward "entropy," where faculty and students share the undemanding practice of self-expression, and the uninterest in teaching of the former joins with the uninterest in learning of the latter.
It focuses upon the censor's shifting position towards the staged portrayal and discussion of homosexuality, and describes his struggles with theatre makers and managers who were actively seeking to subvert and circumvent his authority, as well as revealing that the Lord Chamberlain was frustrated by the government's uninterest in reforms to the system.
In their own work, Rose et-al argue that both approaches are "flawed in their uninterest in the human", and propose instead that more attention be paid "to (at least) three aspects of human feeling: the feel of buildings, feeling in buildings, and feelings about buildings" (page 334, original emphasis).
Lack of imagination, mental sloth, moral disregard, and general uninterest ensured that the consequences of this expectative increase at the public and private levels of society went unforeseen.
TABLE 1 Correlations among Mean Ratings for Normal and Pixilated Toy Pictures Normal Pixilated Mas-Fem/Pass.-active r(24)= -.63, p = .001 r(20)= .06, p = .78 Mas-Fem & Interest- r(24)= .65, p = .001 r(20)= -.02, p = .92 uninterest Pass.-active & r(24)= -.82, p = .001 r(20)= -.54, p = .01 Interest-uninterest
Recognizing this aspect of the experience of conversion demonstrates why, for example, representatives of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions were sent packing for their lack of cultural respect and uninterest in Anishinaabe sociopolitical goals compared to the warmer receptions given to Bishop Baraga's Catholic mission and Bishop Whipple's Episcopalian ministers.
Groarke observes that even after industry moved out and the economic rug was pulled out from under Brantford's inhabitants, the dominant attitude was still one of uninterest in a Brantford university.
Moreover, the redundancy of this plot throughout all Readers quickly causes uninterest, unimaginativeness, and ineffectiveness among students and instructors; worse, unvarying stories frequently results in like teaching, with ultimate development of critical thinking skills stalled.
Their Jewish governance was unpredictable, erratic, turning on a dime attacks on synagogues, massacre, exile, re-admission, arrests followed by periods of uninterest. Jordan writes: "But as soon as any climate of normalcy re-emerged--or so it seems--it would always be shattered by the rage or moral posturing or greed of a king whose will, at least with respect to the Jews, had the force of law in the royal domain."
Entitled "The Two Cultures", it warned of the growing gulf between scientists and "literary intellectuals", a class he described as "natural Luddites" who not only sneered at science as an inferior branch of learning and were ignorant of the Second Law of Thermodynamics but in their complacent uninterest in the scientific revolution were blind to the menaces of nuclear weapons, overpopulation and the gap between the rich and poor.
This uninterest in the social conditions of Egypt has led critics like Billie Melman to judge her harshly.
a certain uninterest or rather a strong desire to be alone--It's all tied up with the death of my father.