incuriosity , auch: incuriousness

This vigor appears in the incuriosity, and stony neglect, each of every other.

His very incuriosity was proof enough to Theresa that he knew exactly what she was talking about.

Numbness, memory and caution rule; incuriosity becomes a means of survival.

Maia dared not count on their incuriosity surviving a repetition.

Their incuriosity, and hence their intolerance, spring from the same root.

He has written a novel for an age ravaged by the moral and military fallout of cross-cultural incuriosity.

But the most disappointing aspect of the book is its incuriosity about narrative, its sources, transmission, audience.

"Keynes's incuriosity about this battle is itself curious.

These instances of incuriosity and hyper-parochialism are replayed in countless guises.

This "apparent incuriosity," it adds, "raises questions about its internal due diligence and ethical safeguards."

Rather than trying to find out more about this man he barely knew, he settles for a troubled incuriosity, concluding, "I know him by his absence."

Suddenly she understood their strange blank incuriosity, the way their little trotting daemons seemed to be sleepwalking.

Swift, claims Orwell, had much in common with Tolstoy in incuriosity and intolerance.

This said Bush was "dumb" in the sense of having "a persistent incuriosity that has kept him in a state of childlike ignorance."

Literature, poetry, science, are the homage of man to this unfathomed secret, concerning which no sane man can affect an indifference or incuriosity.

The White House can be criticized for its policy of dribbling admissions, but Ms. Reno is ultimately the victim of her own incuriosity.

Peter Ackroyd wrote in London: The Biography that Green was for the most part ignored, becoming "a poignant symbol of the city's incuriosity and forgetfulness."

It's one of the low points in the book; the others are a few passages in which he refers to Blair with a combination of incuriosity and ridicule that's beneath him.

Mrs Verloc's philosophical, almost disdainful incuriosity, the foundation of their accord in domestic life made it extremely difficult to get into contact with her, now this tragic necessity had arisen.

It was a tacit accord, congenial to Mrs Verloc's incuriosity and to Mr Verloc's habits of mind, which were indolent and secret.

Actually I don't hate Bush (although he certainly gives me fits, at times), nor do I think he's an idiot (although I don't question his legendary "incuriosity").

For Richard Rorty, in his interpretation of Lolita in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Humbert is a "monster of incuriosity."

It was a stranger who hung there, head flopped against one shoulder, lank hair over a face invisible save for a single eye which stared out at the burgeoning day with supreme incuriosity.

I never did discover who he was, the son of the house or just another guest, and my own obtuseness and incuriosity now appear to me more revealing than anything else of my state at the time.

Laidover miners, discredited asteroid pilots, drunks and dreamers, and a number of men who never admitted to being ore pirates-the people who either didn't fit or weren't welcome in Alpha-all had learned incuriosity the hard way.