| 单词 | incurious |
| 例句 | For their part, the grazing creatures regarded her with mild, incurious eyes, showing no alarm. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The nearest animal looked up incuriously and then turned back to the grass. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The Orgota seemed not an unfriendly people, but incurious; they were colorless, steady, subdued. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z These writers are incurious about the logic and history of the English language and the ways in which it has been used by its exemplary stylists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z His daemon, the marmot, was not blank and incurious as the nurse’s dog had been, but sat politely on his shoulder watching and listening. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z This nurse’s was a pretty bird, just as neat and incurious as Sister Clara's dog, and the doctor’s was a large heavy moth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She lowered her guard when she saw nothing but incurious good humor in Mr. Fred’s face: “I will, someday.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The attendant, busy and incurious, barely looked at them, so they walked off, Dicey turning to look over her shoulder. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It was easier to stay incurious as an officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt a kind of sorrow for them: a commonplace whose strangeness remained somehow hidden from my incurious fellows. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Their progress was followed by the blank, incurious eyes of second infancy. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Their sad Mongolian faces gazed out over the sides of the trucks, utterly incurious. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Shin was a scrawny, incurious, and for the most part friendless child whose one source of certainty was the guards’ lectures about redemption through snitching. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He gave them an incurious glance as Malcolm rang the bell. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Every now and then, a loon floated by, incurious. nothing,nowhere. Blends Hip-Hop and Emo to Make Tomorrow’s Pop 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z But the rest of the time, I was incurious. When my birth mother found me 2013-09-16T23:30:00Z He was a strangely incurious reporter, who expected people to be at least as interested in him as he was in them. Wigwag: The Magazine That Lex Built 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z There is something tiresome and incurious about the film’s romanticism, which rests on the canard that girls aren’t really into music. Review: Ethan Hawke Is Just Right as a ’90s Indie-Rocker in ‘Juliet, Naked’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z This film is joyless, passionless, humourless, incurious about real people's real lives. The Smell of Us review: Larry Clark's passionless voyeur flick 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z Parker seems incurious about the context and culture of wine. You can be a wine snob too! 2013-01-02T12:45:00Z For a play set now, in New York City, the Betties are curiously incurious, as if Ms. magazine and “Our Bodies, Ourselves” never happened. Review: ‘Collective Rage’ Is ‘The Vagina Monologues’ Times 5 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z For an anthropologist, he is remarkably incurious about these people. Tom McCarthy keeps protagonist and readers guessing 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z In person Mr. Daniel can be reserved — laconic if we’re being rock ’n’ roll — though not unfriendly or incurious. 2010-01-07T21:50:00Z Tirelessly prodding the scab of denial and the bruises of Holocaust memories, he wonders why his strangely incurious mother, Hannah, never questioned her parents too closely about the war. Movie Review: ‘The Flat,’ a Jewish Family History in a Documentary 2012-10-18T23:12:36Z They were doting but incurious parents, bewildered by her fame, and confounded by the fans, who kept turning up at their door or writing to them during Blondie’s heyday. The Tide Is High (Really), but Debbie Harry Is Staying Put 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z The former boogeyman of the American left, once viewed as rash, incurious and overly trusting of his gut, has been eclipsed by an even more absurd, menacing figure. Perspective | George W. Bush’s wars are now over. He retreated a while ago. 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Your mother is self-absorbed, unaware, uninterested, incurious, distracted; doesn’t listen, interrupts, talks over, turns all conversations back to herself; and, the killer of all rational hopes, she is defensive. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: It’s nature over nurture when it comes to changing your mother 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z About his ex-wife we are indifferent, incurious, uninterested. Film review: Eat Pray Love 2010-09-23T21:49:00Z “Don’t Look Up” turns on one of the most vexing aspects of the crisis: Stating the data, shouting it even, often fails to move people, though the film is largely incurious about why. Apocalypse When? Global Warming’s Endless Scroll 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z We are, if we are not damnably incurious, splendidly the better for it. The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Director Tom DiCillo is relatively incurious about the bands' mundane professional and romantic lives, perhaps for fear of importing an injurious Spinal Tap irony. Film review: When You're Strange: A Film About the Doors 2010-07-01T22:25:00Z He is a hopelessly incurious and blasé boy who, we are informed in the very first sentence, “didn’t know what to do with himself — not just sometimes, but always.” Rainn Wilson Narrates a New Audiobook of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Her intoxication with the culture — without her Japanese pals losing sight of her foreignness — felt like a gentle rebuke of the incurious insularity of a movie like “Lost in Translation.” You Don’t Like the Girls in ‘Girls’? That’s Its Genius. 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Tucked into a wheelchair, her limbs immobile and hands tightly curled, Christine looks around her — at the other visitors, the helpful aides, the strange locale — with a gaze that seems at once incurious and beatific. 2010-02-16T22:18:00Z For Jacobson, that incurious mind is a capital crime, and it quickly becomes the target of this slim, raucous novel. A sneak peek at ‘P---y,’ the soon-to-be published novel about Donald Trump 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z But he seems curiously incurious about the second explosion — which remains the single greatest mystery of the Lusitania’s rapid sinking, and the ultimate cause of the terrible carnage. Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake,’ About the Lusitania 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Accordingly, “Rebel Heart” sounds dispassionate and incurious about the world it’s trying so hard to participate in. Be still, the unseemly beating of Madonna’s “Rebel Heart” 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Why had her family, her friends, her acquaintances been so incurious, so passive, about the jobs on which they depended? Her Town Depended on the Mill. Was It Also Making the Residents Sick? 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The account that White gave of himself, A. J. Baime tells us in his incurious, uncritical new biography, “White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret,” was different. Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Both were largely ignorant and incurious and believed in social Darwinism at its cruellest and did some serious damage to America’s image in the world, I appended in my mind, yawning. A Reagan-Trump-U.S.S.R. Winter Dream 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z I have often been similarly lazy and incurious. The damnable task of being a Man Booker International prize judge 2011-03-30T14:46:06Z We are left with a supercharged soap opera, a view of CIA work that is distant and incurious, and a portrait of a marriage that itself is insultingly shallow, cliched and unconvincing. Fair Game ? review 2011-03-10T15:00:00Z So we wound up being totally dependent on a system about which we are terminally incurious. Everything you need to know about the internet 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z Her meager voice is not necessarily, or always, the problem; perhaps it’s more that she’s incurious about making the best of a weakness. Music Review: Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias at Prudential Center 2012-07-22T22:52:40Z When faced with a biographer who is so disinclined to analyse and so bafflingly incurious, he evaporates. Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z In New York, I am an outsider and I have found that New Yorkers are strangely incurious about their city. New York City views 2010-07-31T23:04:00Z Taylor is incurious about the story’s physical practicalities as well as its emotional implications. “Ma” and “The Perfection,” Reviewed: Two Horror Movies Crassly Exploit #MeToo 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z They introduce themselves as scientists and ask Claude to accompany them, which he does with unsettling, incurious passivity. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime,’ Explores Time and Memory 2014-02-13T23:06:59Z That Kelly was, in other words, often in the position of restraining a whimsical and incurious president. Perspective | Trump cries ‘fake!’ about media reports of White House chaos. But they keep getting proven right. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z “I’d been largely incurious about America’s place in the world, and America itself, before Senegal,” Mr. Joseph said. theater: A Little Good, a Little Evil, a Lot of Ritual 2010-12-30T23:56:50Z Sadly for Lehrer, it’s not a mark of intellectual curiosity to repeat the same mantra, over and over; it’s a mark of dogma and blind, incurious faith. Jonah Lehrer’s male arrogance 2012-06-21T15:00:00Z When the generally incurious Daphne figures that out, she tries to get the yearbook back and, in the process, discovers more about her pretty, vain mother than she wants to. In This New Caper Novel, a Yearbook Reveals Family Secrets 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Sometimes this is the result of the pace; sometimes it is simply the result of an incurious mind. Listening to Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z He’s unaccountably incurious about his 16-year-old self and the rip his father’s death must have caused at the hub of him. Richard Ford’s new memoir, ‘Between Them: Remembering My Parents’ 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z The opinion’s biggest problem isn’t that it was cruel, it’s that it was incurious. Perspective | A lot of powerful people seem to have no clue what motherhood means 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Betty is often a terrible person, venal and incurious and irritable and petulant. Mad Men Recap: You Can’t Stop Cold Like That 2013-06-24T14:13:10Z Persuasive to the alienated Trump voters who seem content to roll the dice on an untested, incurious, and megalomaniacal vanity candidate? Samantha Bee, America’s New Comedian-in-Chief 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z By and large, we are a lazy and incurious people. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The brilliant strategy behind ‘vegetable medley’ 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z He has become incurious and defeated about science. My Bonnie: How Dementia Stole the Love of my Life by John Suchet; and Keeper: Living with Nancy. A Journey Into Alzheimer's by Andrea Gillies 2010-06-12T23:06:00Z He referred to Trump as “chaotic, corrupt, incurious, infantile, grandiose.” Perspective | ‘We’re not doctors’: The perils for journalists in assessing Trump’s mental health 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z “Rabbit Test” is so incurious about women’s experiences that it doesn’t even bother exploiting them. Pregnant Men Were a Movie Punchline. Now They’re Horror Villains. 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z John Ryley said broadcasters had become "supine", "incurious" and "compliant" when it comes to the Royal Family. Broadcasters let Buckingham Palace censor Coronation coverage - ex-Sky News boss 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z The Marxist writer Malcolm Harris called her “profoundly incurious” about the deeper economic dynamics at play when it came to the malaise of young American adults. Review | Jean Twenge is ready to make you defend your generation again 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Trump is hardly the first dishonest President, the first incurious President, the first liar. Time's up: Trump has dodged prosecution his whole life, but Judgment Day is coming 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z However, it’s also taxing to listen to and see the folks who like to post the MLK quotes this week and keep living their incurious lives the next. Essay: Martin Luther King Day should make you uncomfortable 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Like Bourdain, he had the gift of converting the incurious, or at least getting them to sit up and take respectful notice. There was something Bourdain-like about the big, soccer life Grant Wahl led 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z "They do not at the moment. They are too supine, too incurious, too compliant," he said. Broadcasters let Buckingham Palace censor Coronation coverage - ex-Sky News boss 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z Trying our sympathy, Johnson’s heroine is the quintessential Ugly American: Entitled and incurious, she insults her hosts at every turn. Page to Screen: Claire Denis on how she adapted the late Denis Johnson's 'Stars at Noon' 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z There’s at least one moment in “Blonde,” Andrew Dominik’s dazzling, depressing and fatally incurious movie about Marilyn Monroe, when you might not be sure if you’re watching Ana de Armas or the genuine article. Review: 'Blonde' isn't really about Marilyn Monroe. It's about making her suffer 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z I don’t mean to say that Dad was a simple guy, or incurious. Perspective | Cheesy twice-baked potatoes honor my dad, who knew what he loved 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Satire is generally incurious of motive, unconcerned about the conditions that produced whatever distortion of personality, misdeed or excess it targets for opprobrium. A New Class of Campus Satire 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The ideal child-rearing on the right is about an authoritarian father dictating his child's life, which produces incurious and small-minded bullies. What's the matter with SEL? Successful, well-adjusted adults are the GOP's kryptonite 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Heart transplant recipients sometimes are incurious about the details of the lives of their donors. Eva Baisey, first heart transplant recipient in the Washington area, dies at 55 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Let’s hope Erin Romanuk can cocreate that “culture of care” with parents to reduce discipline issues caused too often by an “incurious” system. Reduce racial inequities: A child’s education is vital 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z He lost multitudes more to low expectations, disproportionate punishment, and racially incurious teachers throughout his more than two decades. ‘Normal’ isn’t good enough for kids returning to school 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z But he is also lazy, incurious, and a bully. Biden asks Americans to act like grown-ups — but Republicans are too addicted to being brats 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Presented with her own ignorance, the Paris of “Cooking With Paris” is unconcerned, incurious, and insistent on staying that way. Perspective | Paris Hilton’s new Netflix show takes all the joy out of cooking 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Very loosely inspired by the sordid Amanda Knox saga, “Stillwater” follows Baker as he tries, in his noble but socially incurious and ultimately damaging way, to navigate the foreign city’s legal and social systems. Matt Damon’s Disappearing Acts 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z A more blunt phrase would be “ideologically incurious” individuals. Our lack of curiosity is a threat to democracy 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z He wondered how long her internal pain had gone ignored by incurious teachers and a system prioritizing a rise in computational proficiency over emotional competence. ‘Normal’ isn’t good enough for kids returning to school 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Still, as we whizzed past the hedgerows and incurious sheep of the Cotswolds, we carried on a vigorous debate over an issue we both cared a great deal about. Should I Hang Out With Someone Whose Political Views I Hate? 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z But she sounded surprisingly incurious about the merits of Boylan’s accusations. Opinion | Andrew Cuomo’s survival in office looks doubtful 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z “I am surprised and saddened about how incurious some are about some truly concerning and verifiable facts,” Mr. Maloni told The Washington Times. ‘Unprecedented cover-up’: Mounting evidence in Hunter Biden scandal suppressed 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z Over many acquaint, incurious volume of forgotten lore. Microsoft Teams and Google Meet both have closed captions, here’s how they compare 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Raised by a steelworker and a secretary at the Inland plant in Gary, Ind., Popovich is as open-minded, principled and curious as Trump is narrow-minded, unprincipled and incurious. Opinion | An Anti-Trump Slam Dunk 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Moreover, he described Bush as disengaged and incurious — “like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people.” Paul H. O’Neill, treasury secretary and critic of George W. Bush administration, dies at 84 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z “The short version is that Jared Kushner is incurious, not inclined to defer to experts, and surrounds himself with yes men, so he is unaccustomed to being told that his decision-making is bad,” Spiers wrote. Jared Kushner and his shadow corona unit: what is Trump's son-in-law up to? 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z It is flatly insane that someone as uninformed, intellectually incurious and science-intolerant as Mike Pence is playing point man here. Get political reporters off the coronavirus story — they're screwing it up 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Alexander, however, has proved himself terminally incurious in recent days. Impeachment vote lacked suspense but weight of moment was still felt 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z On CBS’s Face the Nation, Graham, who’s grown quite incurious about basic details of recent White House scandals, added, “I don’t need any witnesses.” On impeachment, Lindsey Graham won't 'pretend to be a fair juror' 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Still, the author describes Mr. Trump bluntly as unlearned, intellectually incurious and sometimes consumed with frustration about leaks. ‘A Warning’ by ‘Anonymous’: 5 Takeaways 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z But it’s also possible that many Senate Republicans are just incurious – again. Taylor's statement becomes the latest doc Republicans haven't read 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Doctors working with transplant patients have noticed that many of them tend to be incurious about the lives of the people whose hearts beat in their chest, or the circumstances of their deaths. A terrible crime, a patient waiting for a transplant: The tragic, redemptive journey of one heart. 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z In common with millions of other folk, she is blameless, unwitting, and initially uncomprehending; yet she is far from incurious, and thus her sleuthing begins. Villains Hog the Spotlight in “The Laundromat” 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z This was quintessential Ledgard: inquisitive, strange, striving for stillness and invisibility—the better to spend time among aggressive and skittish creatures, and make sense of them to a mostly incurious world. Jonathan Ledgard Believes Imagination Could Save the World 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Luckily for my incurious teenage self, wine tourism in Europe in the 1980s didn’t amount to much. Wine tourism comes of age 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z It's a world where lazy, incurious bigots like Trump can beat out well-qualified women like Hillary Clinton for leadership positions, simply because they're white men. Donald Trump Jr.: Perfect epitome of the Trump fan base 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Was he really so incurious that he couldn’t bring himself to actually read the document? Lindsey Graham admits he hasn't yet read all of the Mueller report 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z He was similarly incurious about actual costs when his buddies invited him on a little vacation at a villa in Costa Rica, at bargain rates. Florida editorial roundup 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z To be incurious is a form of mental death, an abuse of the gift of consciousness. Lit Life: Ian McEwan talks androids, consciousness and Alan Turing 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z And yet, Trump’s Republican allies seem quite content, indifferent to the special counsel’s revelations, and incurious about their president’s alleged felonies. Following the Mueller report, why are Dems the only ones 'wrestling'? 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Even so, a clutch of pro-Trump intellectuals has emerged to issue manifestos, launch journals and publish books, attempting to impose a rational framework onto this most impetuous and incurious chief executive. Other presidents had a brain trust. But the intellectuals backing this White House are a bust. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z To their son’s early dismay, his parents were possessed of incurious minds and unpoetic souls. W.S. Merwin, Poet of Life’s Evanescence, Dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z But when such a group is run by New York state legislators, the state seems to be curiously incurious. Editorials from around New York 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Maybe Trump, an unusually uninformed and incurious man, is simply ignorant about the basics of his own foreign policy. Trump says Russia is 'not happy' with new Syria policy, Putin disagrees 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z But at the risk of sounding incurious or unscientific, there are some questions that I’m not sure I want answered. Honestly, Some Questions Are Better Left Unanswered 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Flake responded furiously, saying: “Why are we so sanguine about this? Why do we protect a man who seemingly is so incurious about what Russia did during the 2016 elections?” Jeff Flake threatens to block judicial appointments over Mueller inquiry bill 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z It shows the potentially horrifying consequences of giving too much power to an aging and incurious narcissist who cannot acknowledge error. Review | MacArthur’s narcissistic failures on the battlefield of the Korean War 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z This probably sounds innocuous enough to the casual or incurious observer — and that’s exactly what the white supremacists who devised the slogan intended. ‘It’s OK to be white’ is not a joke, it’s careless politicians helping the far right | Jason Wilson 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Those who are too defensive, too incurious, or too bigoted to engage honestly with Me Too are missing out on one of the greatest intellectual feats of our time. The male cultural elite is staggeringly blind to #Me Too. Now it's paying for it | Moira Donegan 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear,” which began circulating on Tuesday, portrays Trump as ill-informed, incurious, impetuous, and mendacious. The Deceptive Contrast Between Trump and Kavanaugh 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Calix couldn’t believe his co-worker was so incurious about what Santos and others were fleeing. Reunited, an Immigrant Family Tries to Put Their Life Back Together 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z And the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank close to the Trump administration, defended the move, calling the council “notably incurious about the human rights situations in some of the world’s most oppressive countries.” US leaving UN’s Human Rights Council, cites anti-Israel bias 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Interviews with a dozen diplomats and foreign policy experts, some of whom requested anonymity to speak openly due to the sensitivity of the issue, underscore the widespread consternation with a seemingly incurious and blustery president. ‘Respected again’? Trump's claim for America strikes many allies and diplomats as ‘preposterous’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Only a person fundamentally incurious about world cinema — which is to say, a person who has no real business attending Cannes in the first place — would argue otherwise. Stubborn? Arrogant? Irrelevant? The 2018 Cannes Film Festival weathers the storm 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z She seems remarkably incurious for the top educator. Democrats Tell DeVos Her ‘Head Is in the Sand’ on Racial Bias 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z The Trump who emerges from Wolff’s account is chronically incurious, contemptuous of experts and beholden to his gut instincts. Booked! Trump, staffers who cried Wolff and a week of fire and fury 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Complicating matters is the fact that the president’s team appears to work from the assumption that Trump, an incurious former television personality, does not read. Trump's 'personal insecurities' impair US response to a security threat 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z So, because the majority of the Republican Party's support comes from the incurious, today 'Fake News' wins the day, much like the way 'Wide Stance' did in 2007. Opinion | Jesus’ Parents and Roy Moore’s Gall 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z But it is Mr Trump who remains consistently and inexplicably incurious about Russia, and whether it attacked American democracy. How to understand the first indictments against Donald Trump’s former aides 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z He’s nice and boring and I was incurious about him because he was so thinly written. My Friend Dahmer will be an odd footnote on a Disney Channel star’s Wikipedia page 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z They reveal a president raging against enemies, obsessed by slights, deeply uninformed and incurious, unable to focus, and subject to destructive whims. Opinion | Republicans, it’s time to panic 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z When they crossed one another in the elevator, they were casually friendly, in an incurious kind of way, acquaintances have said. Paul Manafort: why Trump's old ally could hold the key in Mueller's Russia hunt 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z The four-minute exchange was your typically insipid TV pablum, totally incurious and utterly forgettable...at least until the very end. Maria Sharapova is the cringey bad actor of the week - Golf Digest 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z In a new biography, “Freud: The Making of an Illusion,” Frederick Crews depicts his subject as cruel, incurious, deceptive, and both fragile and vainglorious. Young Freud, cruel, incurious, deceptive, and in search of fame 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z For the incurious, the taboo around this argument makes it exciting. Science doesn’t explain tech’s diversity problem — history does 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z These are people conveniently incurious about the administration’s ubiquitous ties and baldfaced obsequiousness to one of our mortal enemies. This Independence Day, resistance is the new patriotism 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z We weren’t just afraid that he was an incurious lout who made decisions based on what fed his ego at the moment, though he is and does. The 100 days that turned America upside down 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Such information is scattered, and federal bureaucrats are shockingly incurious about compiling that information. Congress has been stalling border wall funding 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Members of an uninformed and incurious public inhales the pollutant, then proceed to cough it up in every room that they enter. Donald Trump: A bigger “factoid” president than Nixon? 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z “It seems incurious not to view automation as a possible concern,” Muro said. The treasury secretary is ‘not worried at all’ about robots taking jobs. Here’s why he could be wrong. 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Donald Trump: President Trump’s problem is that he’s impatient, incurious and consumed with what he perceives as “winning.” Trumpcare dies again: For the second day in a row, GOP pulls the plug on Obamacare replacement 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z England continues to produce quite-good players who arrive at tournaments tired, insular and incurious, whose careers are consumed instead by the unceasing Mammon of English club football. Gareth Southgate: no star power, no magic bullet, but a man for the times | Barney Ronay 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z If Hillary Clinton was the embodiment of the assertive—often hubristic—strain of neoliberal interventionism, then, as the Kremlin saw it, Trump was the opposite: an incurious populist prone to isolationism and short-term pragmatism. Is Putin’s Russia Ready for Trump’s America? 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z What is a "crime" is how breathtakingly shallow and incurious about the world he seems to be. What Drives Donald Trump? Fear of Losing Status, Tapes Show 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z There are lots of reasons not to nominate an incurious narcissist for president, but one of the main ones is that he might inadvertently undermine your entire system of government. Democracy's Wrecking Ball 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Even the most incurious tourist who visits, say, Bulgaria and Finland will have noticed that the countries don’t just have different languages, they have different alphabets. The Failure of the Euro 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Both believe they are fighting for a better politics, a kinder America and, in Dr Stein’s case, though not the globally incurious Mr Johnson’s, a safer world. Mr Johnson and Dr Stein 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z But at our worst we’re murderous and proud, incurious and spiteful. Colin Kaepernick’s anthem protest is right: blanket rah-rah patriotism means nothing 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z But on one topic, Trump is conspicuously incurious: the suggestion that he is complicit in a plan by Vladimir Putin to influence the U.S. election. A Trump-style speculation on the GOP and Putin 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z For Joyce, the problem is that people are sleepy, numb, and incurious. The Man Who Became a Goat 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Now, you might wonder how someone that careless and incurious was such a huge success in business. Donald Trump’s tax mysteries 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z He proclaimed himself incurious about his predecessor’s murder conviction. Pervasive Doping in Summer Sports Is Likely Only the Half of It 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z While correcting the impression he didn’t have a clue what was going on back then, Pell left the impression of being remarkably incurious. Incurious George: Pell heard rumours of sex abuse, but 'rarely indulged' rumours |David Marr 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z George W. Bush was profoundly incurious about the world, and insulated by layers of smarter people and money. Secrets, lies and the iPhone: A CIA whistleblower talks about Obama’s bizarre secrecy obsession — and why Hillary and Bernie won’t talk about it 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z The warmth and geniality Trudeau project so effortlessly are not, at least to the incurious or unimaginative, easily reconciled with the demands of the Prime Minister’s office. A charm offensive: the repellent magnetism of Justin Trudeau 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z So the ebbs and flows of opposition have remained relatively opaque, aided by a generally incurious press. John Boehner was really bad at his job. Now things are about to get epically worse 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z This is an oddly incurious response for someone purporting to be an investigative journalist. Medical journal’s bogus investigation could derail better dietary guidelines 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Let’s just call them the clueless, the incurious, the moronic, the dull. Carson and Trump’s clueless demonization of Muslims 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Under all previous presidents, incurious George included, the Espionage Act was used for that purpose exactly three times. Secrets, lies and the iPhone: A CIA whistleblower talks about Obama’s bizarre secrecy obsession — and why Hillary and Bernie won’t talk about it 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z Being incurious: Recently, I was traveling to a small town in Northern California on business. The 4 Things Keeping You From The Job You Want 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z As with many other areas of communal discourse, insiders are reluctant to talk about it, and outsiders are either too incurious or sensitive to ask. Losing their religion: The hidden crisis of faith among Britain’s young Muslims 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Yet even incurious visitors will feel that history in their bones. Serenity Now: Civil War battlefield now a tranquil spot 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z “You can have the best methodology, but if you have an uninformed or incurious analyst, you won't get good results.” Conflict resolution: Wars without end 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z He didn’t walk them and remained oddly incurious about the landscape he’d chosen. My Dad, the Pornographer 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Lee is oddly incurious about the question that must occur to every reader: why did Fitzgerald wait so long to start writing? The Trials of Penelope Fitzgerald 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z I hate to be critical . . . but . . . these two strike me as awfully incurious types who think 'life' revolves around hoops, TV, and video games. Overseas, Lost in Transition 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Aside from the uncritical eye many Americans reserve for religion, the reporters who write incurious puff pieces should have acknowledged the cloud over the Chinmoy Center. The media’s love affair with accused sex criminal Sri Chinmoy 2014-05-09T16:00:00Z But the students were uniformly incurious, he said. More College Adjuncts See Strength in Union Numbers 2013-12-04T02:37:38Z If you are at the centre of an empire, you become incurious. Ian McEwan on the appeal of Brazil 2013-10-03T01:40:44Z Writers are curious about the world, but most people are fairly incurious about things that don't directly affect them. India Ink: Five Questions (Plus a Few More) for Selma Dabbagh 2013-01-29T05:27:24Z Other incurious media company bosses – James Murdoch for one – ought to take note. George Entwistle: 23 years getting to the top of the BBC. Gone in 54 days 2012-11-10T23:14:22Z People in villages in France are very incurious. Is France learning to love British food? 2012-10-22T09:29:50Z A combination of obfuscation, prettifying, magical thinking, and—this is pivotal—an assumption that women are so dumb and incurious that we won’t note what they are saying and doing. Akin is the GOP 2012-08-22T14:00:00Z Her mother’s mild voice was in her ear, incurious: they had begun to wonder where she was. Tessa Hadley: “An Abduction.” 2012-07-02T04:00:00Z One is that we are remarkably incurious about what makes them tick. New-tech moguls: the modern robber barons? 2012-06-30T23:04:09Z With the complicity of clueless pundits and incurious journalists, they are reducing an important theological movement of the past 40 years to an abusive sound bite. Beliefs: A Campaign Pitch Rekindles Questions About Liberation Theology 2012-05-25T15:21:15Z Would Minetta Garden have looked on them with a sort of incurious interest as so many "types"? Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z The black dwarf had been sent for from the castle, the outwardly stolid and incurious maid-of-all-work informed him. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z The papers are full of the Paris exhibition, which opens today; but it leaves me perfectly incurious. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Mrs. Pendergast passed an incurious but observant eye over her acquaintance. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z She took me again with her slow, incurious gaze. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z "What does ye mean?" demanded the boy, resting on his grounded rifle and fixing the other with steady, incurious eyes. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z He noticed incuriously that his two correspondents were Messrs. Bolder & Bolder, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., and the Western lawyer who had arranged the mortgage of his ranch. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z He had been forbidden to talk, and at first, indeed, his brain had been too incurious for him to wonder greatly concerning the events of the night on which he had been struck down. The Money Gods 2012-01-04T03:00:39.617Z She hesitated, looking him over, then motioned him incuriously to the stool behind the pine table. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z “He was incurious, he was incurious about everything,” Enders, whose clients include the U.K. government, said in an interview. James Murdoch Seen ‘Incurious About Everything’ in Phone Hacking 2011-11-11T01:48:59Z All were reprehensibly incurious and shockingly affectionate, and so far was Louie's case from being peculiar that, in the eyes of the law at any rate, Miss Dot Mayville was herself twice a parent. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z When any of the hundreds of hurrying men who passed him looked at him with incurious eyes, he felt uncomfortable, and blushed. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z She was civilly incurious concerning the people she met; their social customs, amusements, pastimes, duties, various species of business or of leisure interested her not a whit. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z Belief in the supernatural strikes him as incurious, which is perhaps the worst insult he can imagine. | Richard Dawkins: Richard Dawkins, an Original Thinker Who Bashes Orthodoxy 2011-09-19T17:34:05Z "No. I remain incurious concerning servants," said I, drily. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z Can anyone now believe that he signed incuriously, naively, mind blank and mouth open? Plc? No thanks. Papers are best as family businesses 2011-08-20T23:05:49Z Who is there so incurious that he would not give an evening to Borneo? Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z He never saw Jesus and apparently was incurious about him. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z "I'd rather have Mrs. Bluebeard for a wife than such an incurious old soul as you are!" said the testy baronet.—"And so you have not even the grace to ask who it is?" The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z Whatever the detail, it is enough to dissuade the incurious stewards from holding a formal inquiry. Claims Five: The Quinlans and their surprisingly well-backed winners 2011-07-08T13:01:13Z The streets were quiet, peopled with few wayfarers; and these few hurried past them with brief, incurious glances if not with that blind indifference which is largely characteristic of the people of New York. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z I heard footsteps, but was too incurious to turn and glance at the intruders. The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z A dog barked at the procession; but otherwise the inhabitants of Yucca showed a disposition to remain incurious. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z It is to be regretted that this trial did not take place; the accusations and the defence would have supplied no incurious chapter in the history of the human mind. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z But she was incurious about the man who died at her feet. Magazine Preview: Watching the Murder of an Innocent Man 2011-06-02T14:40:59Z All these things speak nothing to a boy who is careless and incurious. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z The movie's glaringly incurious characters and story were no accident. How the '80s programmed us for war 2011-03-15T11:45:00Z Now Pollie was eagerly enthusiastic, but her burning impatience on a score of subjects awoke no responsive note in the incurious, undemonstrative kinsman. The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z This volume was ill received by the incurious readers of that age. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z What at any other time would have brought an incredulous exclamation left him now incurious, without surprise. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z Then erected all her haughtiness again, and stood before Pierre in incurious, unappeasable grief and scorn for him. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Had Barbara realized none of it, or was she merely utterly incurious? Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z Ignorant, incurious, narrow, with an intelligence gradually shrivelling up to the dimensions of a childhood with which they have nothing else in common! The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z But literary commentators held forth few attractions to the incurious readers of that day. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z It is practically universally acknowledged by objective observers, and by many right-wing admirers of the former president, that George W. Bush is, to put it charitably, intellectually incurious. Outrage! Paul McCartney makes Bush joke! 2010-06-04T18:30:00Z It would be far worse, however, to remain stubbornly incurious, even 20 years on, about a crime and a conviction that led two men to their death. Postmortem: Seeking the Truth About an Executed Man 2010-05-20T17:25:00Z He emerges as incurious, perhaps even spellbound, in his billionaire friend's company. Lord Ashcroft | The peer's entrance | Editorial 2010-03-19T00:05:00Z The two men from the outer world eyed each other incuriously and parted after an exchange of commonplaces. The Law of Hemlock Mountain And long was “The Intellectual System” lost among a thoughtless or incurious race of readers. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The incurious traveler is thus impressed, by these screening walls, with an incorrect idea of the true nature of the island. The Story of Malta They are incurious as to theory, take fundamentals for granted, and are more interested in the state of the roads than in their place on the map. The Acquisitive Society Save for his ingrained sense of a man's obligation to maintain always an incurious dignity, he would have looked through widened eyes of amazement from the first miles of his travelling. The Tempering The man who had deserted chewed nonchalantly on a grass straw and regarded the other incuriously—which was a master bit of dissembling. The Law of Hemlock Mountain Under the paternal sovereignty of Marcus Aurelius the approaching declension of learning might be scarcely perceptible to an incurious observer. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 The few Tibetans we met in the street were strangely incurious. The Unveiling of Lhasa He wanted Miss Raritan's address, and until he got it a comet that bridged the horizon would have left him incurious as the dead. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel With this he was sufficiently cheered to insult vivaciously a couple of dull, incurious Mexicans whom they presently passed, plodding behind a laden burro train. Ewing\\'s Lady You have forgotten me for fifteen years; you have wandered up and down a garden, oblivious of all things that I had taught you, incurious, idle, listless, effeminate. The Last Generation A Story of the Future Farrell turned an irritable stare on the incurious group of Arzians gathering, nets and fishing spears in hand, at the edge of the sheltering bramble forest. The Anglers of Arz Michaelson stared incuriously around him, like a bird that finds itself in a strange forest and wonders how he got there. The Lost Warship It startled him momentarily, when he followed their course with his eyes, to see that perhaps a hundred others had gathered to wait incuriously for them in the near distance. Pet Farm But his glance was that of one incuriously comprehending the existence of a stranger. The Destroying Angel He liked to have them on the ship, silent, incurious, efficient, devoid of ambition. Command Those who had as yet been too sleepy or too incurious to rise sprang up and followed their comrades' example. Barclay of the Guides Never had we seen such an exemplification of their incurious, impassible diathesis as they now presented to our cost. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 The words broke in on his thoughts and he looked away from her, following her gaze incuriously, not much interested. Homo Inferior They bear every servile mark,—levity like a child’s, incurable idleness, incurious content. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) In the stifling heat of the lazy June afternoon it drowsed, seemingly deserted except for the ponies and the two wagons, and the few incurious cowboys who had rewarded the young man with their glances. The Coming of the Law She had so often surprises on him which generally ended in some new suggestion of intrigue, that he was both unmoved and incurious. Banked Fires Such an incurious, apathetic set we had never before met. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 The preceding article has reminded me of a subject by no means incurious to the lovers of literature. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 To this document, I trusted to obtain in the country the signature of two witnesses sufficiently incurious to sign without reading. Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 And the bridge is a piece of public property; anonymously famous; beaming on the incurious 229 dilettante from the walls of a hundred exhibitions. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Certain phenomena, of which there is no historical explanation, excite the notice of some one less incurious than his fellows, and he attempts to account for them. The Ethnology of the British Islands "I tell you," he cried, "Georgina——" There was something maddeningly incurious about her. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Nelson felt the dryness of his throat as he raised his gun to aim at the incurious machine. The Happy Man “Yes,” answered Denver regarding him incuriously and the Slogger moved a step or two closer. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp But the driver of the cart took no further notice of Finn than to stare idly at him, possibly without even seeing him; at all events with an absolutely incurious stare. Finn The Wolfhound His eyes were small, feral; he gave Martin a fleeting, incurious glance, and turned his attention to his work. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story Joe Arnold had an innocent, incurious, almost stupid countenance that suggested a chronic desire for sleep rather than any more alert characteristic. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs At that she looked up incuriously; leaned forward slowly; gazed intently at him; then she caught both his hands in hers with a swift, sobbing intake of breath. The Crimson Tide A Novel While she watched it incuriously it came to a dead pause, and so remained for several minutes. Nobody But the mind of that man must indeed be incurious and indocile, who has either overlooked all these things; or reaped no instruction from the contemplation of them. A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations Lady Lane's face, reflected in the mirror, was passive and incurious. The Education of Eric Lane But I lay incurious at this new vision of what our wide continent holds in fee under the single title United States, until breakfast came. Red Men and White Luckily the old man, an inheritance from his, Allerton’s, father, was deaf and incurious. The Dust Flower Leif, being of an adventurous spirit, was fired by this talk, and resolved to accomplish what the incurious Bjarne had left undone. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History “Yes?” replied the girl in a balanced, incurious tone. The Readjustment Holgate turned his black, incurious eyes on me, as if he wondered. Hurricane Island But no, there was no need for alarm, the Frenchwoman passed her with a brief, incurious glance. Juggernaut Chingachgook turned a calm and incurious eye towards the place where the ball had struck, and then resumed his former attitude, with a composure that could not be disturbed by so trifling an incident. The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 Mary’s glance noted them briefly, incuriously, returning anxiously to the man beside her. Shoe-Bar Stratton Serenely incurious, she looked at the visitor, aware that the clothes he wore were foreign, and that his features, too, were not American. Athalie Hopeful at least, if not faithful; content with intimations of immortality such as may be in skipping of lambs, and laughter of children,—incurious to see in the hands the print of the Nails. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing Because he was one of them he watched incuriously the procession of vagrants, in coats whose collars were turned up and fastened with safety-pins against the rain. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Her faith, like her opinions, was child-like and uncritical—the artless product of a simple and incurious age. Virginia They went after him, Margarita incurious because she was utterly indifferent, Roger wasting no energy, of course, with no facts to proceed upon. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty He regards me unsuspiciously, or avoids me with a noble reserve—or, if I am quiet and incurious, graciously hops toward me, as if to pay his respects, or to make my acquaintance. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs Illiterate they were, because incurious; and incurious because too haughtily self-confident. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 And incuriously he watched a saloon-keeper, whose face was plastered over with a huge mustache, come out and hang a sign, "Porter wanted in a.m.," on the saloon door. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life But these were, one and all, timid folk, politely incurious, with evident respect for the rights of the individual. Edge of the Jungle He was not accustomed to such through-gazing from beautiful eyes, such incurious absence of questioning. The Branding Iron Winn was spared the agony of foresight; he could not see beyond her sparkling eyes; and Claire was happy, exultantly, supremely happy, with the reckless, incurious happiness of youth. The Dark Tower As they had their effect, those who profited by increased safety could afford to be incurious of reasons. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate When these searchers had come, doing their work so idly, with such incurious futility, he had not concealed the book. Cousin Henry The strong, lights of the chamber shone on her; she stood, still as an image, with large, incurious eyes, looking at him. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Turpin, who, as it may be supposed, had not been an incurious observer of the scene passing, burst into his usual loud laugh on seeing Luke bear away his lovely burden. Rookwood She comprehends results, but is incurious as to causes. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It is the most respectable faculty of the human mind—in fact I cannot conceive the uses of an incurious mind. Chance A Tale in Two Parts I believe in an organic and tangible designer of every complex structure, for so long a time past, as that reasonable people will be incurious about all that occurred at any earlier time. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin After a while they moved him to a small hospital in an upcoast town, where he slept much, suffered not a little and, even waking, viewed the world incuriously through drug-laden eyes. Far from Home Jack Palmer was amongst the last to enter, and remained a not incurious spectator of a by no means common scene. Rookwood To-day we have had our sport of death,—and presently the gay years wind past us, as our cavalcade came toward the stag, and God's incurious angel slays us, much as we slew the stag. Chivalry Mr Smith said ‘Ah!’ and waited a little longer to put another question in his incurious voice. Chance A Tale in Two Parts Her eyes rested incuriously now and again upon a couple of men who stood in conversation by a pile of luggage some distance away, but within eyeshot of the compartment. The Grell Mystery Sometimes he shared a bottle with Smith, who was equally incurious. The Lure of the Mask We may, in some other place, lay before the reader the particulars—and they are not incurious—of the "night before Larry was stretched." Rookwood These are tinsel oaths," she crooned, as rapt with incurious content; "these are but the protestations of a jongleur. Chivalry The infantry, climbing above, looked down the far wooded slopes, but incuriously. The Long Roll He got up and quietly strolled about the room, examining the bookcases with incurious interest. The Grell Mystery Now the New England people, especially Bostonians, are inordinately given to knowing everything about everybody, and to “tittle-tattle,” while the Southerners are comparatively free from it and very incurious. Memoirs He had said but little about the case to Mr. Cupples, who seemed incurious on his side, and nothing at all about the results of his investigation or the steps he was about to take. The Woman in Black In his arms she rode presently, passive, and incuriously content. Chivalry These, and occurrences as memorable, receive a pleasant kind of historical pomp in the important, and not incurious, narrative of the antiquary and the tailor. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Hopeful at least, if not faithful; content with intimations of immortality such as may be in skipping of lambs, and laughter of children—incurious to see in the hands the print of the Nails. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature Darius was incurious by nature, though he had brief fevers of curiosity. Clayhanger The first time we were at Bahia, I could not even learn where it was, so incurious are my countrymen here about what brings no profit. 24th. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 The talk was never very strenuous; for whereas Mr. Colt could never learn to distinguish one rose from another, on Church affairs or on politics the Master was hopelessly tolerant, antiquated, incurious even. Brother Copas He was shown an old worm-eaten coffer, which had long held papers untouched by the incurious generations of Montaigne. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 As to the redbreast and wren, it is well known to the most incurious observer that they whistle the year round, hard frost excepted—especially the latter. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 There was a brief moment when Wyk, standing aside incuriously, gave us opportunity for swift whispers. Wandl the Invader A young bushwhacker wearing Union blue, with a murderer's eyes in his boyish face, had watched Drew with the same incurious glance which held nothing of humankind. Rebel Spurs Then he said in an incurious tone, "Well?" A Little Girl in Old Salem He followed him out on the wide veranda built over the water's edge, passing through a friendly, incurious group of young Americans who sat at little round tables in groups of three and four. Terry A Tale of the Hill People It has been said that children go to school ignorant but curious, and leave school ignorant and incurious. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular A wave of gratitude to Nelly swept through him when he realized that she was either incurious or else too delicate-minded to show inquisitiveness. Jill the Reckless And the officers, it appeared, were equally incurious. The Adventures of Harry Revel The girl, who might have been sixteen, gave Jane a stolid, incurious look and shuffled down the hall, closing the door on a portion of the stale smell. Jane Journeys On Her general popularity, perhaps, made the world incurious about the subject. The Call of the Blood He was far from incurious on the subject; all that he had seen and all that he had heard at Bethany greatly interested him. Tancred Or, The New Crusade He had glanced at them vaguely; he was naturally incurious; and he had been thinking of other things. The Lady Paramount But at this, not to appear suspiciously incurious, he put on the mask of indifferent interest and asked the waiter concerning the uproar. The Price The laborers of the camp were more or less incurious. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West But there sat Hugh, as square, as solid, and as incurious as an upended bale of cotton. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi There surely was never any nation so incurious and indifferent about truth. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. She looked at them incuriously from innocent eyes still heavy with slumber. Steve Yeager Our criticism has been oddly incurious in the matter, considering what the dominion of the novel has been for a hundred and fifty years. The Craft of Fiction Their streets were paved with polished marble; which seemed strange amongst a people so incurious, both because the workmanship was troublesome, and there might be danger in its being slippery. Ideal Commonwealths They thought me slothful, incurious, destitute of knowledge and of all thirst of knowledge, insolent, and profligate. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 From the boat's fragmentary stern, Fedallah incuriously and mildly eyed him; the clinging crew, at the other drifting end, could not succor him; more than enough was it to look to themselves. Great Sea Stories Ducie was incurious, or appeared to be so; he saw and heard, and asked no questions. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 Perhaps the incurious glance of the American made itself felt, for as she threw down a fresh louis d'or, she looked up and their eyes met. The Lighted Match He was a kindly, virtuous, warm-hearted man, with a life of his own which made him incurious and thoughtful, and singularly devoid of prejudices. Life of Father Hecker A Mohammedan servant, who looked up incuriously, was unlacing her shoes. Hilda A Story of Calcutta The others, hearing us addressed, turned an incurious gaze upon us for a moment, and then fastened their attention anew upon the table. Dead Man's Rock Mindful of the instructions of Mr. Hume, the two boys were quite self-possessed and incurious, though it was a great effort to restrain expressions of surprise when they were face to face with Muata. In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa For a moment, without rising or taking any notice beyond a curt nod, old Tom Burton bent upon him eyes of incurious gravity. Destiny He was silent and incurious till he had satisfied his wants; then he looked up to meet George's questions. The Half-Hearted A tall bearded digger with a loaf of bread under his arm had slouched from the business tent, and stood watching the scene with incurious eyes. In the Roaring Fifties He watched it incuriously, but his interest quickened when it came out of the bushes into a dry water-course and he discovered that the figure was that of a human being. The Sheriff's Son But Jenny Barrow could not long keep still and incurious, even upon the Sabbath day. Foes Mr. Aram seemed to have a most passive and incurious disposition. Cinderella And Other Stories Only several persons, strangers to his recollection, were abroad, and they favoured him with incurious glances. The Turtles of Tasman He took the basin without thanks, and set it down on a chair and began to bathe Marion's head, while Mrs. Cliffe stood by watching incuriously. The Judge The passengers turned an incurious, half-resentful stare upon him, and then repented. Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches They were on other business, and their incurious minds bothered little about a city that was dead and gone for them. The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty The squirrels still scampered over the walk; the thirsty sparrows were still drinking; the few loungers on the benches still stared at her with dull and incurious eyes. One Man in His Time When the blank-eyed young man on the bed had swallowed it all passively, looking at her with dull, incurious eyes, she went back to her room and closing the door put the washstand against it. Love Stories Mariana, in a dull, black satin wrap of innumerable soft folds and wide paisley collar slipping from a sheath-like bodice of gleaming, cut steel beading, was silent, incurious. The Three Black Pennys A Novel He met me with an incurious stare, and began to doze again. Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches She looked at him with wide, incurious eyes, recognizing him without surprise. The Keeper of the Door You take it for a stonecrop—one of those weeds doomed to obscurity, and safe from being picked because they are so uninviting—and you pass it by incuriously. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Nor is this surprising; for it might startle the most sluggish indifference—the most incurious stupidity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 Not incuriously, he was swiftly recognized for what he was by all who came in touch with the magazine. Twelve Men "What a funny devil the poor old chap was," said Jaffery, with a laugh at the harmless foible of the artist who would not give even an incurious housemaid a clue to his mystery. Jaffery He yielded, still with his reflective but incurious manner; and when she left the shop a quarter of an hour later the check was in her little bag beside the amethyst necklace. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage The auctioneer and Mr Baker—who had just signified, by a slight frown, that he could not accept the young farmer's bid—glanced up incuriously. Hocken and Hunken Stony eyes were focused upon him incuriously, with expressionless hostility. Mavericks Then, not incuriously, seeing the affectional tie that had always held us, he wanted to see me every day. Twelve Men And as we saw, he was incurious enough not to read the narrative of what had been done by his own American colleagues even after the Havas Agency announced it. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference He spread his ice-cold hands out before it, incurious of the futile little room whose draperies and fripperies and inconsiderable flimsiness of furniture proclaimed its owner, intent only on the elemental need of warmth. Septimus She drank incuriously, with his supporting hand upon her back; was gently lowered upon her pillow again; and then she turned upon her side, wide-eyed still, but silent. V. V.'s Eyes The girl at the window glanced incuriously at him and turned to look. Mavericks The short, broad Irishman went out with another incurious glance aloft, and closed the outer door. The Common Law She soon appeared—cold, passive, incurious, yet beneath this I could see the confined struggle of passion. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Thenceforth she but festooned the porch of things; Apt at life's lore, incurious what life meant. The Poems of William Watson One was grey, the other was young; but each had the same pale, incurious air of detachment. Mary Minds Her Business Their utterly incurious indifference to Rachel in her peignoir at the window was somehow harrowing. The Price of Love Being neither incurious nor incompetent observers, their delineations were graphic and vivid. The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. She had been very sweet and very incurious. Mr. Prohack If so— His eyes, straying incuriously over the outstretched panorama of sea and cliffs beneath the window, fell upon a man’s outline scaling the cliff path near the Moon Rock. The Moon Rock But the chopping ceased at once; and this apparently satisfied the man, who leaned against the rail and waited, chewing a spear of brome-grass, and staring steadily, but incuriously, at his boots. The Delectable Duchy "Yes, sir," said Krupp, mysterious and quite incurious. The Price of Love Bondsman trotted over to it, watched a rancher and his wife alight, sniffed at them incuriously, and trotted back to the office. Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life His eyes went incuriously over the familiar crowd to the little forest of flag-foliaged masts that told where lay the ships in the bay below the town. The Gringos He was the most taciturn and incurious man that I have ever met. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta I saw the old woman searching the incurious features of the few passengers, and I thought her own features expressed some disappointment. The Delectable Duchy I will take what indulgence the incurious reader can give me, for printing the list thus accidentally occurrent: Exodus, chapters 15th and 20th. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice I came incuriously— Set on no diversion save that my mind Might safely nurse its brood of misdeeds In the presence of a blind crowd. The Book of American Negro Poetry Her daughter cast a last incurious glance back. The Blood Red Dawn To-day we have had our sport of death,—and presently the gay years wind past us, as our cavalcade came toward the stag, and God’s incurious angel slays us, much as we slew the stag. Chivalry One thing only he heard which the wisely incurious reader will care to know. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Even so do you, dear Alianora, who are not divine, look toward me, quite unmoved by anything except incurious wonder, the while that I cry my elegy. Figures of Earth He had the casual, incurious look of one who had been for a little trip down the line. The Wrong Twin In the meadow to the left some goats were grazing and, as he passed, the wether raised his head and examined him incuriously, its bell clanking solemnly. Madcap It is difficult to read, because one's mind slips over it and emerges too soon at the end, mildly puzzled though incurious still as to what it is all about. An Englishman Looks at the World Every lover of science, on approaching this spot, will feel himself on holy ground, however the idle and incurious of our metropolis may neglect the scite, or be ignorant of its identity. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827 But, still, all these arrangements were regarded by the seamen with incurious eyes--a certain proof that use had long rendered them familiar. The Red Rover He had surrendered, but could not reason—was even incurious. The Wrong Twin Crowds of elegantly-dressed company were promenading the mall, or principal walk, and some few were not incuriously lingering about the enclosed parterres of the garden, whose beauties would soon be transported to a milder atmosphere. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828 He returned to the piano, perfectly incurious about what I did, self-absorbed as a god. Sacred and Profane Love Ah! but our student, who held the bird, was not incurious—only cold and cruel in his curiosity. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII The dark, heavy faces continued to hang over the railing, staring fixedly down at the boat with a steady, incurious gaze. The Bent Twig It would be a sufficient shield for the name of Sally Fortune in that incurious region. Trailin'! SUFFRAGETTE, T. H. E., a woman who lived years ago in Great Britain and the United States, who believed that noble man was incompetent, incomplete, incompatible, incongruent, inconsistent, and an incubus in his incurious incumbency. Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be We chose Monte Carlo partly because it was the nearest place, and partly because it has some of the qualities—incurious, tolerant, unprovincial—of a capital city. Sacred and Profane Love For the first time in his life he was taking that incurious woman into his confidence. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale Chingachgook turned a calm and incurious eye toward the place where the ball had struck, and then resumed his former attitude, with a composure that could not be disturbed by so trifling an incident. The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 I don't say that with any desire to exculpate myself; I admit I was a director of all three, and I will confess I was willfully incurious in that capacity. Tono Bungay "How mony beasts were killed?" he asked incuriously, and was told three. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies She saw only a man sitting on the edge of the bunk and incuriously studying the toes of his moccasins. Love of Life and Other Stories And the men would become suddenly incurious, after the manner of their kind. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale She had seen—and now she was going back to her cooking; a woman incurious; expecting nothing; without fear and without hope. An Outcast of the Islands I handed it to Mr. Lowell, who glanced incuriously at the superscription. Ponkapog Papers The children did not look with incurious eyes upon this stirring scene. Poems And the bridge is a piece of public property; anonymously famous; beaming on the incurious dilettante from the walls of a hundred exhibitions. Across the Plains Mrs Verloc’s fine, incurious eyes lighted up with a flash of abhorrence. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale The old Man fortunately was credulous and incurious: He believed all I said, and sought to know no more than what I thought proper to tell him. The Monk; a romance He was a strange, disconsolate figure, as he shifted about to ease his leg, or gazed incuriously from the window. Mr. Standfast Then he remembered the passionate generosity latent under that incurious calm. The Age of Innocence Raymond of Ravenswood acquiesced in the experiment, not incurious concerning the issue, though confident it would disappoint the expectations of the hermit. The Bride of Lammermoor Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation,—a systematically incurious person remains always partly mysterious. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale As the days went on and the tempo of the front office slackened with that of the two bright little inner offices, only one member of the whole staff remained unmoved, incurious, taciturn. Emma McChesney and Co. "Oh, William," Lady Drogheda bewailed, "it is all so big—the incurious west, and the sea, and these rocks that were old in Noah's youth,—and we are so little——!" The Certain Hour Was it because she had been so incurious that it had worn that look to her? The Reef The sudden movement lifted his wife's lids, and she asked, in the incurious voice of the woman whose life is enclosed in a magic circle of prosperity—"Any news?" The Touchstone And now the grave incurious stars Gleam on the groaning hurrying cars. Trees and Other Poems When Buck and Curly grew excited, half wild with fear, he raised his head as though annoyed, favored them with an incurious glance, yawned, and went to sleep again. The Call of the Wild His first incurious thought that the clangour arose from the town band, engaged in an attempt to round off a memorable day in a burst of evening harmony, was contradicted by certain peculiarities of reverberation. The Mayor of Casterbridge He drank, incuriously; and the fiery liquid ran to his head and heart and shot new life into his dead limbs. Captivating Mary Carstairs She walked along it and was lost to Margot's incurious eyes. The Happy Foreigner He became conscious that something was moving between him and the brazier—something which he had incuriously assumed to be a piece of dirty cloth left there carelessly. The Bronze Bell The heave of a swell enabled him to glance incuriously after the steamship. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf The cold, incurious eyes studied her without passion, and once more he smiled. Harrigan The ignorant, vulgar, and even the rest of the sages of Arabia, might have surveyed it with idle wonder or incurious eye; very few followed the splendour, or knew the intention of its appearance. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II All which the mass of England watched with shrewd, incurious eyes. The Highwayman They were together; and the jostle of earthly happenings might hope, at most, to afford them matter for incurious comment. Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship The young man was just married, and, to Maxwell's absent, incurious eyes, the bride had seemed a lively, pretty little person enough. Sir George Tressady — Volume II The blue of his eyes was no longer cold and incurious, but lighted, warm, and marvelously deep. Harrigan I wanted to live normally—to live as these persons thick about me, who seemed to grow up, and mate, and beget, and die, in the incurious fashion of oxen. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking Dimly, too, she seemed aware of a multitude of wide, incurious eyes which watched her from every corner, where panels snapped at times with sharp echoes. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages Mac and I were by no means reluctant to humor the lad, for we were not incurious respecting the picture, and we accompanied him forthwith. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 When he had visibly turned every pocket inside out, and their contents lay upon the desk, the woman looked the exhibits over incuriously. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama She knew the quick color was running from throat to cheek; she knew the cold, incurious eye would note the change. Harrigan One or two incurious tradesmen looked idly up as I passed by. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Thus it was that my teeth clenched, and a dog howled in the distance, and the world seemed very old and very incurious of our mortal woes and joys. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages She hurried out, scurrying after the others with a faint rustling of her black skirts, leaving George mystified but incurious. The Magnificent Ambersons He remembered how incuriously—not even scornfully—these people had overlooked him on that disastrous afternoon when he had ventured into Pseudopolis by daylight. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice They were met by the cold, incurious light of Harrigan's stare. Harrigan And the woman was there,—the woman whose eyes were blue and incurious, whose face was always scornful. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes Now every memory and sensation was blurred, no thought of the future intruded, I accepted without internal questionings whatever was done for me, and lay semi-conscious, incurious and indifferent. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire The year Declined; in the still air the thrush piped clear, The languid sunshine did incurious peer Among the thinned leaves of the forest sere. Poems of Paul Verlaine She was a little too beautifully incurious about everything to be quite real—and a little too well satisfied with her place, even on what we paid her. Young People's Pride A Novel Or perhaps it was his eye, which seemed to linger for a cold, incurious instant on every face that approached. Harrigan The Duchess had lifted a rather grave and quite incurious face as he entered the salon. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes The climate, and then their religion, has made them hard and incurious; it is a land of uncompromising masculinity. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Many wise old trout, incurious and contented, deep in the shadowed pool, have been coaxed to the frying pan through the archer's skill. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow They were incuriously awaiting the impulse which was sure to come, sure to thrust them on downward. The Great God Success She became aware of those cold, incurious eyes studying her face as she wrapped the gauze bandage deftly around the injured palms. Harrigan Eliot stared at the man with blank, incurious eyes. The Vision of Desire He had the gift of restoring things to their normal relations, of carrying one over the chasms of life through the closed tunnel of an incurious cheerfulness. Sanctuary Then, as her hand lay there, scarcely imprisoned, their eyes encountered,—and hers, intensely blue now, considered him without emotion, studied him impersonally without purpose, incuriously acquiescent, indifferently expectant. The Fighting Chance In this chapter of my autobiography I have obeyed my guru's behest and spread the glad tiding, though it confound once more an incurious generation. Autobiography of a Yogi A particular kind of rock, therefore, has helped to make them sluggish and incurious. Old Calabria Ann opened her eyes and stared incuriously up into a blank, indeterminate expanse of white. The Vision of Desire The fortunate, then, were the incurious and the hearts undisturbed by a maddening thrill. Linda Condon The girl glanced at him incuriously, and with more curiosity at the dog. The Fighting Chance If we have lately done things which in their way could not be ignored, they could certainly be forgotten, and many Englishmen, in spite of them, still remain immensely incurious about us. London Films The peons I met were astonishingly incurious, barely appearing to notice my existence. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Whether this listening silence, incurious, yet hearing all, is benignant or malevolent, who can say? Gone to Earth In no city can they carry on their researches with such ease, for Florence is incurious about them. A Wanderer in Florence Those quiet, incurious hours are among the pleasantest of all my Florida memories. A Florida Sketch-Book She incuriously and with religious admiration accepted Mr. Cannon as she accepted the idea of the paper. Hilda Lessways Fortunately for us, if there was any one in the neighbourhood who had heard the noise, they were either too lazy or too incurious to investigate the cause. A Rogue by Compulsion So with all life the shadow lingers—incurious, mute, yet in the end victorious, whelming all. Gone to Earth The incurious unimpassioned gaze of the Alpine peasant on the scenes which mysteriously and profoundly affect the cultivated tourist, is the gaze of one who has never been taught to look. The Principles of Success in Literature Miss Lansdale remained incurious and merely said, "Long golden braids," as one trying to picture them. The Boss of Little Arcady His attitude was that of the genuine bourgeois towards the artist: possessive, incurious, and contemptuous. Hilda Lessways For a moment she favored me with an incurious glance. The Unspeakable Gentleman He seemed an honest, incurious lad, just the one to be trusted in the business. The Iron Game A Tale of the War We can listen," says Dr. Newman Smyth, "with incurious complacency while small disputants discuss vehemently the story of the ark or Jonah's strange adventure.... Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People A wave of gratitude to Nelly swept through him when he realised that she was either incurious or else too delicate-minded to show inquisitiveness. The Little Warrior And is it your excess of modesty Or are you so incurious, that you do not Ask me too of my secret? The Piccolomini He half turned toward me, and favored me with a serene, incurious glance. The Unspeakable Gentleman Mr. Robert's appetite, for a healthy young man, was strangely incurious. Man on the Box Let us take care that we come not in this matter under the condemnation of any such incurious indifference as that which I have imagined. On the Study of Words The question came from Carson Tinker, but his tone was incurious, manifesting no interest whatever. Harlequin and Columbine He eyed us with much the same incurious curiosity as that with which we eyed him. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler But they, incurious of those hell-torments Judas felt within him, because their own fires burned not yet, dismissed him.' Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 She sat very still, conscious of vague pain somewhere in her breast, acquiescent in the consciousness, dumb, and now incurious concerning further details of this man's tragedy. In Secret Even the women rarely smiled; their clear-cut, stately countenances remained stern and set, except when they glowered at us incuriously. She and Allan I have never felt myself called upon to enlighten him in family secrets, and his is an incurious disposition. At Last A servant, who looked up incuriously, was unlacing her shoes. The Path of a Star In a flurry he glowered at Istra as she nonchalantly sat down opposite him, beside Mrs. Arty, and incuriously unfolded her napkin. Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man But I will set my repugnance in a stronger light, by relating an anecdote not incurious. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Shall not thy sons, incurious though they are, Raise their dull lids, and meditate a stare? The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 She longed to prove to the woman by the fire that she was wholly incurious now, wholly free from the taint of sordid vulgarity that clings to the social busybody. In the Wilderness Miss Fenno's eye travelled incuriously over the mystic blue reaches of the landscape. The Descent of Man and Other Stories Her intellect was naturally incurious as to the habits of volcanoes; her soul, moreover, in good hands, her conscience in excellent working order, as befitted a potential convert to Catholicism. South Wind The lower orders, the middle orders, are still, when tried by what is the standard of the educated "ten thousand," narrow-minded, unintelligent, incurious. The English Constitution But her sluggish and incurious nature was the greatest safeguard of all. North and South They were eyes which shone with clarity; and they were something else—they were totally incurious eyes. In the Wilderness Thou livest in an ignorant bliss, all incurious of thy real danger. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 What are other joys—those of the illiterate and incurious? South Wind "No," he said, looking up at me incuriously for the first time. In the Days of the Comet Well, she had had no business to understand—that was the long and the short of it: nice-minded girls found such a thing impossible, and turned incuriously away. The Getting of Wisdom He did not pursue that question, but dismissed it, incurious still in his misery, which had become more active since his strength had stirred out of sleep. In the Wilderness Without affectation she had been a profoundly incurious woman as to the lives and the concerns of others, even of those whom she knew best and was supposed to care for most. The Garden of Allah Nor even, should it halt, did he feel up to watching those indifferent, incurious passengers who little recked that a future screen idol in natty plush hat and belted coat amusedly surveyed them. Merton of the Movies In fact every society is repellant of strangers in the degree that it is sufficient to itself, and is incurious concerning the rest of the world. April Hopes He had calculated correctly and unmolested he gained the pawnshop door, passed the solemn-eyed, incurious Isaac, and entered the room behind. Children of the Whirlwind She seemed to him a totally incurious woman. In the Wilderness What past can be yours, O journeying boy Towards a world unknown, Who calmly, as if incurious quite On all at stake, can undertake This plunge alone? Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses He watched Fenn with dull, incurious eyes as the latter crossed the uncarpeted floor of the bare wooden shed, threw off his overcoat, and advanced towards the side of the couch. The Devil's Paw He asked incuriously, "How do you find your course in such weather?" April Hopes "What do you mean, madame?" she asked; but her tone was listless, apathetic, as of one who though uttering a question is incurious as to what the answer may be. Saint Martin's Summer He had said but little about the case to Mr Cupples, who seemed incurious on his side, and nothing at all about the results of his investigation or the steps he was about to take. Trent's Last Case But Tony merely fluttered his big black eyes open and stared at me for a long minute of incurious amaze ere he closed them again. The Mutiny of the Elsinore The doctor, a grave, incurious person, arrived within a few minutes to find Morrison already conscious but absolutely exhausted. Havoc One of these she picked up and looked at incuriously for a moment before sweeping them aside. Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) This is a mere guess of mine, Dryasdust having been incurious: but, to English readers it is incredible for what sums Friedrich got his work done, no work ever better. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 As far as the world knows, the shadow of a literary quarrel never fell on him; he was without envy or jealousy, incurious of his own place, never vain, petulant, or severe. Adventures Among Books Their faces remained peculiarly relaxed and placid, incurious and pleasant, while in their eyes floated profounder dreams. The Mutiny of the Elsinore We drove on down the lane, eyed somnolently by spotted cows and incurious sheep, and all the way Miss Emily talked. The Confession While I waited for my coffee I leaned back and surveyed the people incuriously. The Man in Lower Ten He lay incurious, drowsiness still heavy on his eyelids. The Vision Splendid They are not incurious of the lives around them—these little lives that succeed one another so quickly. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story And the three dreamers with the topaz eyes stood and swayed and dreamed together, incurious of setting and situation. The Mutiny of the Elsinore She had been aware of him from the moment of his spectacular entrance, though no slightest sign of interest manifested itself in her indolent, incurious eyes. Bucky O'Connor Mr. Travers remained incurious but his wife handed to him an unfolded sheet of paper which he condescended to hold up to his eyes. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows He had been profoundly lethargic, passive and incurious. The Breaking Point Sara Lee sewed more than one rent for him, those days, but she was strangely incurious. The Amazing Interlude Perhaps it was the way they looked at me, with incurious yet calculating eyes that nothing escaped. The Mutiny of the Elsinore If the old captive had been a prisoner among the Saracens, he was too indolent or incurious to make use of his knowledge. Aucassin and Nicolete It is the most respectable faculty of the human mind—in fact I cannot conceive the uses of an incurious mind. Chance A Tale in Two Parts All he saw was a woman in a washed-out blue calico dress and a fresh white apron, raising incurious eyes to his. The Breaking Point He looked into the cold, incurious face of the man in an officer's uniform who was already moving away, as though he had seen a ghost. Kingdom of the Blind |
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