All 50 Uses of
indifferent
in
Atlas Shrugged
- It was a wise, slow glance; it seemed to say that he knew that Eddie's visit to their part of the building meant trouble on the line, knew that nothing had come of the visit, and was completely indifferent to the knowledge.†
Chpt 1.1
- It was the cynical indifference which Eddie Willers had seen in the eyes of the bum on the street corner.†
Chpt 1.1
- It was as if a shutter were slammed down, and what remained was a face without expression, impersonal, indifferent and empty.†
Chpt 1.1
- A man's voice answered indifferently, "About an hour.†
Chpt 1.1
- They had stopped talking, they seemed to be waiting in placid indifference.†
Chpt 1.1
- And it was, he thought; else why those constant complaints, those unceasing accusations about his indifference?†
Chpt 1.2
- He felt nothing for them now, nothing but the merciless zero of indifference, not even the regret of a loss.†
Chpt 1.2
- The public can't remain indifferent to reckless, selfish waste by an anti-social individual.†
Chpt 1.3
- Nobody found anything else to say. until Boyle spoke up with indifferent curiosity.†
Chpt 1.3
- She felt a bored indifference toward the immediate world around her, toward other children and adults alike.†
Chpt 1.3
- The girl had blurred eyes, a perspiring face, an ermine cape and a beautiful evening gown that had slipped off one shoulder like a slovenly housewife's bathrobe, revealing too much of her breast, not in a manner of daring, but in the manner of a drudge's indifference.†
Chpt 1.4
- It had been a struggle without the relief of violence, without the recognition of finding a conscious enemy, with only a deaf wall to batter, a wall of the most effective soundproofing: indifference, that swallowed blows, chords and screams-a battle of silence, for a man who could give to sounds a greater eloquence than they had ever carried-the silence of obscurity, of loneliness, of the nights when some rare orchestra played one of his works and he looked at the darkness, knowing…†
Chpt 1.4
- You look unappetizing in the morning. she said indifferently.†
Chpt 1.4
- The whole sphere of human endeavors, with one exception, left him blankly indifferent; he had no touch of that which people called culture.†
Chpt 1.4
- No, I guess I haven't…… " He spoke with a quiet, indifferent astonishment.†
Chpt 1.4
- I'm not going to build a line through one of their blighted areas," he said in the same indifferent voice.†
Chpt 1.4
- The crane moved back in majestic indifference; it looked like the giant drawing of a geometrical theorem moving above the men and the earth.†
Chpt 1.4
- He had said it indifferently, as a statement of fact.†
Chpt 1.4
- In an age of casual, cynical, indifferent routine, among people who held themselves as if they were not flesh, but meat-Dagny's bearing seemed almost indecent, because this was the way a woman would have faced a ballroom centuries ago, when the act of displaying one's half-naked body for the admiration of men was an act of daring, when it had meaning, and but one meaning, acknowledged by all as a high adventure.†
Chpt 1.5
- He was indifferently at home.†
Chpt 1.5
- Years helped her to reach the day when she could face her memories indifferently, then the day when she felt no necessity to face them.†
Chpt 1.5
- He had continued playing with his marbles, absently, indifferently, taking a shot once in a while.†
Chpt 1.5
- …he always saw in the eyes of his family when they caught some evidence of his passion for his business-and the futility of his silence, of his hope that they would not think Rearden Steel meant as much to him as it did-like a drunkard pretending indifference to liquor, among people who watch him with the scornful amusement of their full knowledge of his shameful weakness…… "I heard you last night coming home at two in the morning, where were you?" his mother saying to him at the dinner…†
Chpt 1.6
- To recognize one's guilt, yet feel nothing but the coldest, most profound indifference-wasn't it a betrayal of that which had been the motor of his life-course and of his pride?†
Chpt 1.6
- They were indifferent to the issue, they were merely amused by the spectacle of someone's embarrassment.†
Chpt 1.6
- She knew that it was not indifference; she knew his face well enough to see the effort his calm cost him-she saw the faint line of a muscle pulled tight across his cheek.†
Chpt 1.6
- It's just an old illusion of mine," she said indifferently.†
Chpt 1.6
- "Why, no," the spinster said indifferently.†
Chpt 1.6
- It was his indifference that made him spectacular.†
Chpt 1.6
- He felt a dreary, indifferent respect for her.†
Chpt 1.6
- He stood still, feeling free of desire, feeling the bleak relief of indifference to his body, to this room, even to his presence here.†
Chpt 1.6
- She was not after money-she spent little-she was indifferent to the kind of extravagance he could have afforded.†
Chpt 1.6
- The owner turned impassively to fill her order; there was, in his stolid indifference, the kind of mercifulness that asks no questions.†
Chpt 1.7
- Rearden sat without moving, the muscles of his cheeks pulled tight; but his glance was indifferent, focused only by the faint pull of morbid curiosity.†
Chpt 1.7
- She raised her face to him, in obedient indifference.†
Chpt 1.7
- There was only a brief stab of shock in her eyes, then she said indifferently, the words sounding as if she were tossing alms, "By all means, Jim.†
Chpt 1.7
- When she raised her head, she looked at him indifferently.†
Chpt 1.7
- Pat Logan, the engineer, a short, sinewy man with graying hair and a contemptuously inscrutable face, posed in a manner of amused indifference.†
Chpt 1.8
- He stood against the wall, unaware of the crowds, indifferent to admiration.†
Chpt 1.8
- And seeing it, I would not be able to see it indifferently.†
Chpt 1.9
- The admission left him indifferent.†
Chpt 1.9
- She noticed, indifferently, the air of knowing slyness in the manner of the hotel clerks, which seemed to suggest that guests and clerks alike were accomplices in a shameful guilt: the guilt of seeking pleasure.†
Chpt 1.9
- The man stared at the money with sullen indifference, not moving, not lifting a hand for it, still clutching the two buckets.†
Chpt 1.9
- I don't know," he said indifferently, and went on intently.†
Chpt 2.1
- -he asked himself indifferently.†
Chpt 2.1
- He observed, indifferently, the devastation wrought by his own indifference.†
Chpt 2.1
- He observed, indifferently, the devastation wrought by his own indifference.†
Chpt 2.1
- Standing alone in his half-darkened room, Rearden noted that the prospect of going to jail left him blankly indifferent.†
Chpt 2.2
- Cherryl watched her walk away, and thought that Jim had been right: this sister of his was a creature of cold evil who had given her no response, no acknowledgment, no emotion of any kind except a touch of something that looked like an astonished, indifferent amusement.†
Chpt 2.2
- She turned and walked away indifferently, leaving them together, as if in deliberate proof of her words.†
Chpt 2.2
Definition:
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(indifferent) without interestin various senses, including:
- unconcerned -- as in "She is indifferent to what is served to eat."
- unsympathetic -- as in "She is indifferent to his needs."
- not of good quality (which may imply average or poor quality depending upon context) -- as in "an indifferent performance"
- impartial -- as in "We need a judge who is indifferent."