as in impassivity
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Noun
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The copious amounts of sunlight in the film can make for a monotonous sameness, and for all her efforts to seem cool, Dynevor’s stoicism falls flat against that backdrop.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2025 -
For many of us, the traits that have served us well—self-sufficiency, stoicism, and the ability to shut out distractions—may also be the barriers preventing us from embracing the deeper, more transformative aspects of life.—
Alan Fleischmann,
TIME,
15 Jan. 2025
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But, as Kennedy’s book makes painfully clear, the rape kit has also become a paradoxical symbol of systemic indifference toward rape and its victims.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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The government’s apparent indifference toward the hostages—despite the IDF’s near-total military control of Gaza and the fact that many hostages were held within a few kilometers of IDF positions—only deepened the public’s frustration.—
Amos Harel,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Jan. 2025
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At 82, McCartney was still a vision of graceful nonchalance in his fitted black jacket and crisp white shirt, hair grayed at the temples but still boyishly brushing the back of his collar.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA TODAY,
12 Feb. 2025
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There’s a nonchalance in his proposal that matches the domesticity of the performance.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
14 Jan. 2025
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His coy narrative voice and audacious insouciance, thinly disguised under a patina of classical Oxford education and self-deprecating wit, amuse the reader for several hundred pages.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
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The theme’s implicit insouciance becomes perplexing when accompanied by scientific studies and even a World Health Organization report touting the healing properties of art.—
Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2025
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Most of Ukraine’s ravaged cultural sites are like the shelled Reims Cathedral: perhaps not directly targeted, but destroyed with ruthless unconcern.—
Jason Farago,
New York Times,
27 Dec. 2022
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Marked by the artist’s apparent unconcern with conventional modeling and draftsmanship and by the velvety smoothness of his brushwork, the paintings exude an aura of quietude and utter perfection unrivaled in the work of his peers.—
Mary Tompkins Lewis,
WSJ,
26 Nov. 2022
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The President must reign in Mr. Musk's powers immediately and stop this blatant disregard for the powers of Congress.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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That is a blatant disregard for the rule of law, even though pardons are within the purview of the president and something he is technically allowed to do.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
24 Jan. 2025
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Use Peppermint Peppermint can effectively soothe a sore throat, thin mucus, loosen phlegm, and calm coughs.—
Ann Pietrangelo,
Verywell Health,
10 Feb. 2025
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Often, the telltale sign of an active infection is longstanding cough with phlegm and streaks of blood.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
29 Jan. 2025
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The Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs then assumed the initiative by denying Peru's disinterestedness, charging Peru with seeking to injure Chilean interests by her nitrate measures, and with keeping secret the treaty of alliance between Peru and Bolivia.—
Edwin M. Borchard,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Oct. 2011
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The first had to do with the principle of disinterestedness, which called for partisan politics to be kept out of scholarship and the classroom.—
Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2021
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“Stolidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stolidity. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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