work up interest

I've never been able to work up interest in such cooking.

But it is hard to work up interest in either these questions or their answers.

It took him a moment to work up interest in anything so mundane.

Work up interest in the Presidential campaign?

It is difficult to work up interest in such an endeavor when there is a foot of frost in the ground.

One problem is that Dad is such an obvious loser that it's almost impossible to work up interest in his plights.

I, however, didn't want to be helped, and I hadn't time to work up interest for something that didn't interest me.

He worked up interesting lesson plans, included a/v materials, and ordered several high-interest, high-comprehension texts - all to no avail.

His interpretation is so snide that there is no reason to work up interest in his motivation or in his identity.

But for months, far, far away in cyberspace, New Line Cinema, the producer of the $70 million science fiction thriller, has been trying to work up interest in the film through an innovative site on the World Wide Web.