Word: disinterest
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...explanation given implicitly or otherwisefor this--repeated shots of his long-nosed profilesomehow aren't quite enough to justify hiscold-heartedness or make it interesting.Eventually, Stephane paws gingerly at regret, butsince we never knew what motivated him in thefirst place, it's not really compelling. Camille'soutrage at his disinterest is something of a trap,since it forces the audience to regard her as therecipient of desire that she has not really wonfrom us--what's really striking is how muchyounger she is than everybody else, and how no onethinks this particularly remarkable. The movie isfilled with wistful talk about...
...tried to arrange every appropriate use of my skills and talents on a permanent basis and found substantial disinterest in talking about it, in any compromise," he says, later adding that the real problem was a lack of communication between the committee, the ART, and himself...
Less formal factors also influence our coverage. The fact that our entire staff wants to cover baseball. The general disinterest in track. People can't write on this day or that day. Upcoming midterms. Papers are due. The parents are in town...
...extremists. And they never conceived of presidents who would play such political games with decisions that were specifically intended to be apolitical. And they never in their worst nightmares thought the American people would try to force the federal judiciary to take up the slack borne of their own disinterest in democracy...
...best farces are animated by disinterest, not contempt. This one is undone by the twin Hollywood trends of misogyny and morphing. The picture's political and technical slickness betrays its intentions and gives it the smooth, opulently dressed, unwontedly cheery look of a Beverly Hills corpse...