All 5 Uses
apathy
in
The Grass is Singing
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- "Just like a nigger!" said Mary in sharp scorn over his cowardice; she had seen sick natives lie just like that, in a kind of stoical apathy.†
p. 120.5
- During this time, in spite of the hard work and her hatred of the natives, all her apathy and discontent had been pushed into the background.†
p. 130.3 *
- Later, when he saw she had lapsed back into that terrible apathy, he appealed again: "Mary, please come to the farm with me.†
p. 154.4
- She went back to the house, for the first time in many months jerked clean out of her apathy, for the first time in months seeing the ground she walked over, and feeling the pressure of the sun against the back of her bare neck, the sharp hot stones pressing up under her soles.†
p. 163.6
- In the daytime, when she had finished preparing Dick's cool drinks, which were all that he took, she sat idly by the bed and sank into her usual apathetic state.†
p. 180.4apathetic = without interest or enthusiasm
Definitions:
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(1)
(apathy) lack of interest and enthusiasm
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)