How To Use Apolitical In A Sentence
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KING: How do you react to the fact, we'll get to "Apollo 13" and lots of other things, that people looked at it from their point of view, liberals saw it as liberal, conservatives saw it conservative, moderates saw it as moderate, some people saw it as apolitical, antipolitical.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: Tom Hanks' Career From `Bonfire of the Vanities' to `Saving Private Ryan' - February 17, 2001
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A frequent accusation levelled against the nouveau roman and, indeed, both modernism and postmodernism is their apolitical nature.
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Only one paragraph before he tells us this, he claims that Orwell had lapsed from socialism into an apolitical brand of liberalism.
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Now, mayors are pretty apolitical and do not get angry very often.
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A frequent accusation levelled against the nouveau roman and, indeed, both modernism and postmodernism is their apolitical nature.
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Without commenting directly on the fighting in the Strip, Folman told The New York Times that the film, which he has called apolitical but anti-war, "will always be up-to-date because something will always happen again.
Bradley Burston: Waltz with Bashir, Gaza, and the Post-Moral World
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A frequent accusation levelled against the nouveau roman and, indeed, both modernism and postmodernism is their apolitical nature.
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Simon, being dedicatedly apolitical, was the last person to be motivated in his deeds by the desire to make a 'statement', and regarded what they were planning as a kind of situationist artwork.
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
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If high politics often seems strangely apolitical, everyday life is extraordinarily politicised.
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And Mehlis should not, assuming that he is "professional" and "neutral" and "apolitical"--and he is none of these things--have summoned reporters in Lebanon to reply to Husam Husam.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
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Now as for the first, I'd suggest that those churches be called "so-called apolitical" churches and that the head-in-the-sand-spirituality types Tom has described so well be joined by their evil twin "I feel bad we've got to do something, anything, but we're not political and we don't want to think anything through" types.
Philocrites: Quietistic, idolatrous, or prophetic churches.
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Ultimately, he is strangely apolitical, incapable of transcending the limits of the entertainment industry.
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The conventional wisdom is that the country's intelligentsia today are apolitical and money-grubbing, more interested in jobs than democracy.
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This apolitical predisposition to mock precisely the kinds of people who'll actually pay to watch this kind of film is the height of contemptuousness.
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None of the parties involved in educational research is apolitical - not tribal communities, tribal governments, federal education agencies, or academicians.
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But his actions since his election have been far from apolitical.
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For years, he was regarded as apolitical; almost wilfully apolitical.
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Perhaps his apolitical stance is in itself a political gesture.
The Times Literary Supplement
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This brings us to the common claim that much kwaito is apolitical.
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As far as I can determine, he is a relatively apolitical liberal of some sort.
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FUNCTIONAL WORD (8) tetramine SHIFT (6) ambisextrous, magneto - decorative adj. fluid - diplotene, autodrome mechanic, adj. birdyback adj. dirty colorcaster neurokinin dustoff gravisphere parapolitical, punch-up moonfall adj. skim parakite protoconti -
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVI No 1
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Surely, we all know one person who doesn't usually vote, an apolitical type who isn't interested.
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This is why the film is "apolitical" - it doesn't take a stance on the Iraq war, which means in practice that (in the absence of critique) it can only be read as ratifying the war (or, at least as ratifying the late-Bush-surge and Obama-post-surge versions of the war, if not the idiotic Cheneyism that got us involved in Iraq in the first place).
Warren Ellis
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Fundamental to that confidence is the belief that not only do the police act apolitically and independently, but also that the police honour their constabulary oath, and have standards the public can be comfortable with and proud of.
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Scientists are often seen as apolitical people living in ivory towers.
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She even adopts uncritically an apolitical, humanist version of psychological democracy.
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This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss's music as ‘bombastic, sham and hollow’, and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime.
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As an apolitical forum, it should play a key role in framing agricultural policies.
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It’s vital — both as a matter of perception and reality — that those institutions remain apolitical, separate and detached from partisan wars.
Making History by Shaming SCOTUS? (TWICE UPDATED) « Gerry Canavan
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For as much as I reject the demo mentality, I also despair at the apolitical bipartisanship of our national mainstream parties.
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It's a quick, cheap, fun read that's entertaining and slyly apolitical.
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This means that the monarchy is apolitical and impartial.
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We spent the next few minutes talking about the sad state of the nation and about how many apolitical older folk are now taking a stand.
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Since we could realistically, apolitically DESTROY THE BEAST in a matter of weeks (the power we could focus is effectively limitless), the conclusion is as inevitable as death!
Does human misery come from victimization or a defective species?
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Fundamental to that confidence is the belief that not only do the police act apolitically and independently, but also that the police honour their constabulary oath, and have standards the public can be comfortable with and proud of.
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Strikingly apolitical and averse to the urgent rebelliousness of others, emos are happy to admit that they have no ideology beyond insisting on their right to do what they want.
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For as much as I reject the demo mentality, I also despair at the apolitical bipartisanship of our national mainstream parties.
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They intend to remain apolitical because of the unpredictability of the May election.
Times, Sunday Times
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His edict achieved the opposite effect of what he intended, politicizing an apolitical event.
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I was quite surprised and pleased by its apoliticality, at least with regard to electoral politics; although the federal government rightly bears the brunt of it, Lee’s holy anger is leveled at all levels of government and all political actors regardless of party affiliation.
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? « Gerry Canavan
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Sort of depressing that the right way to express a political belief would be apolitically, but that's what we're stuck with.
What Should Classical Liberals Do?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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In other words, the apolitical world of globalisation can prosper only under the aegis of a political entity.
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Even films that purport to be bland or apolitical are political in their intentions.
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When trans women and transfeminine genderqueers are assumed to be conformist, apolitical, and weak while trans men and transmasculine genderqueers are assumed to be radical, with it, and hip, that's transmisogyny (and femmephobia, and subversivism).
The Bilerico Project
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In reality, money can and ought to be administered apolitically.
Times, Sunday Times
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The culmination is its avowedly "apolitical" Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the Mall on Saturday.
Jon Stewart, President Obama debate on 'The Daily Show'
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Although the western word “Terrorist” appeared in katakana in his poem, he was an apolitical poet, who was isolated, anti-social and prone to unhealthy dose of introspection and self-loathing.
Miyazawa Kenji – Ishikawa Takuboku – Two Japanese poets from Iwate
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Administration should be an apolitical tool of the government.
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It is surely time to form an apolitical national group to lobby government on behalf of savers.
Times, Sunday Times
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FUNCTIONAL WORD (8) tetramine SHIFT (6) ambisextrous, magneto - decorative adj. fluid - diplotene, autodrome mechanic, adj. birdyback adj. dirty colorcaster neurokinin dustoff gravisphere parapolitical, punch-up moonfall adj. skim parakite protoconti -
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVI No 1
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His raw, blunt style appeals to the disaffected, the outcast, the romantic, the loner and the apolitical, and it always will.
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In the early Cold War Era, amid anti-Communist witch-hunts and nuclear threats, most American humorists followed the safe path of presenting apolitical consensus-oriented material.
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It means abandoning the idea that judges can ever be reliably apolitical.
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As long as it's run like the Bank of England currently runs the pound, which is to say, apolitically, and pretty predictably, then it should be all right.
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While they are professional and will perform apolitically, its my guess that the officers will be resistant to wholesale changes to the rating system and some of the fiscally prudent policies we implemented.
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Henry used to be totally apolitical, but I think he is now politically more aware.
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As a musician, you cannot be apolitical.
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It's very easy in the United States or any of the parliamentary democracies to live an apolitical life.
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This legitimated the regime in the eyes of the faithful, a very political consequence of adherence to a seemingly apolitical ideology.
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Also, the public service used to be apolitical, but I am afraid we cannot say that today.
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Professional academic scholarship is invariably withdrawn, apolitical and private.
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People living in political crisis zones manage to remain devoutly apolitical.
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She even adopts uncritically an apolitical, humanist version of psychological democracy.
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But it's no panacea, and what I fear one might find, if ever it were studied adequately and apolitically, that some of the most key factors required for its success are the most key factors required for ANY successful education mode.
What would someone have to say on "Meet the Press" to prompt a follow-up question from David Gregory?
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Now, mayors are pretty apolitical and do not get angry very often.
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My lack of reliance on the benefits of government does not mean that I am apolitical, far from it.
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Residents of the town have always been careful to ensure that the repatriation days remain apolitical.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Oil & Gas Journal, the industrys insider publication, recently, starkly and apolitically laid out the off-shore realities.
U.S. Needs Deepwater Drilling Or It's In Deep Doo-Doo
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The City is resolutely apolitical.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because say what you will about the apolitical nature of swing voters, they still look for ideas that aren't dumb-ass stupid and nonsensical.
Jason Salzman: Do Independent Voters Agree That Obama Thinks America Is Worse Than Iran?
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Beware the political creature that says he is non-political, apolitical, or anti-political.
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Your second problem is that you want this freakshow amalgam of slaughterhouse and group therapy to be completely apolitical and empirical and scientific, so long as its apoliticality, scientism and empiricism happen to exactly match your own personal preferences, prejudices and predispositions.
Over The Counter Plan B Indefinitely Postponed - FDA Director of Women’s Health Resigns
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The organization insists that it is apolitical and does not identify with any one particular party.
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It's the supposedly apolitical ECB.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've tried to remain apolitical.
Times, Sunday Times
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The born-frees make up a huge segment of the population and some older South Africans contend that they are apathetic and apolitical.
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I delight in public demonstrations that advance progressive causes -- and so I will go -- but first allow me to explain why Stewart's attempt to frame the rally apolitically is tragic and the squandering of the greatest opportunity to reinvigorate progressive movement politics in years.
Rizvi Qureshi: Against Jon Stewart: Restoring Sanity or Restoring Spectatorship?
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While my institute is an apolitical organisation, it is worth mentioning that Treasury figures are not always reliable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The organization insists that it is apolitical and does not identify with any one particular party.
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Thankfully, there are many private foundations that apolitically adhere to the great traditions of American philanthropic giving, traditions that date back to the founding of this country.
Should Charity Begin at Home or in Washington?
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Given Goodling's divulgations about the immigration court judgeships 'being a part of the [overstrike] voter fraud [/overstrike] remake the courts plan, I would expect to discover, as more information on the immigration courts politicization appears in the press, other as yet undiscovered parts of the administration's efforts to politicize subsets of the courts which had been apolitical traditionally, at least nominally.
Balkinization
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But no matter how hard politicians tried to impose a political frame on those riots, they were resolutely apolitical.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't understand why these folks doing research in something called genomics get to behave as if what they do is completely apolitical, when, if I remember correctly from the Bitch magazine archive in my brain, Joan Roughgarden (author of Evolution's Rainbow) argued that it was difficult for her research to be taken seriously or funded because it challenges gender assumptions at work at least in her field, biology.
WordPress.com News
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To suggest that these AP photographs should now be stripped of prior associations and rendered 'apolitical' is itself the most political stance one can take.
Conscientious: Politics Archives
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Nothing more distant from the banal misreading of the aesthetic as an apolitical "aestheticism" can be imagined than the arguments to be found in these essays.
Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism
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The organization insists that it is apolitical and does not identify with any one particular party.
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One of the first things you pick up is that Coronation Street is resolutely apolitical.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bacon was an apolitical, good-for-nothing gambler with no principles to blind him to reality.
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A few others, finally, have been drawn into the netherworld of off-stage intrigue and parapolitical violence.
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There was no political motive, because the character of the caretaker Government is apolitical.
Times, Sunday Times
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Analysts were impressed that apolitical young Indonesians joined other concerned Indonesians in condemning the Jakarta terror attacks.
Global Voices in English » Southeast Asia: Internet and Nationalism
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Two independents had thrown their hat into the East Ward election ring in an effort to offer disillusioned constituents in the ward a chance to vote apolitically.
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She took tea with her remaining admirers, but in the age of beat poetry and the apolitical pursuit of rapture, seemed something of a relic.
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In particular the point re need for apoliticality is that a word? all the time – which is of course true.
Why I’m going dark for purdah at Helpful Technology
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Henry used to be totally apolitical, but I think he is now politically more aware.
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Though originally avowed as apolitical, politics keeps intruding in these pages.
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The Germans' cultural nationalism did not need political infusion; quite the contrary, it thrived due to its apolitical appeal.
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Call me reactionary, but I don't see anything apolitical in a panel created by a group of nations calling itself "intergovernmental".
Rabett Run
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The army's most striking characteristic was its professionalism and the apolitical views of its career commanders.
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The preference for an authoritative judiciary over the ‘tyranny of temporal political majority’ sounds apolitical and unhistorical.
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The campus had become increasingly apolitical as the fraction of immigrants had grown.
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It offers "a completely different, nonofficial, extraecclesiastical and extrapolitical aspect of the world, of man, and of human relations".
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It was fun watching a seasoned politician almost fumbling for words at an apolitical function.
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My comments are apolitical insomuch as I have no idea who I'm going to vote for and my comments are based solely on my observations as to how the parties are running their mailing lists.
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The population is very apolitical, except for the nationalists.
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Henry used to be totally apolitical, but I think he is now politically more aware.
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Technology seems to interest them little and their stance is apolitical.
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Their outlook harmonized with the new orthodoxies of the planners, many of them Liberal theoreticians such as Keynes or Beveridge, or simply apolitical technocrats.
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Administration should be an apolitical tool of the government.
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Left wing provocateurs whose work would be dismissed as uninteresting or merely crude if it were apolitical or as a sociological freak show if it were right wing tend to be discussed as paragons of graphic design excellence.
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In my opening comments I said that I hoped biosecurity would be treated seriously and in a more apolitical way.
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Until then, I use the word owner apolitically, for convenience and with no other motive.
INSIDE OF A DOG
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The cable is embarrassing for Mr. King, whose r ole in setting the country ' s interest rate is supposed to be apolitical and has fed into mounting criticism of the central banker for what has been described as his penchant for exerting political pressure.
U.K. Officials Brace For New WikiLeaks Revelations
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A frequent accusation levelled against the nouveau roman and, indeed, both modernism and postmodernism is their apolitical nature.
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Renzo attempts to remain apolitical during the Nazi occupation.
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell: Questions
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The campus had become increasingly apolitical as the fraction of immigrants had grown.
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The new version of post-Marxist collectivism wants privileges for organized groups, and "in consequence, a refeudalization of society …, multiculturalism, feminism, apolitical technocratism (based on the resentment against politics and politicians), internationalism (and especially its European variant called Europeanism) and a rapidly growing phenomenon I call NGOism.
Gates of Vienna
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As to her being a political intriguer, she was if anything rather apolitical.
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[It may also speak to this mental fitness if he's "remembering" (apolitically, innocently) something that never happened to him.]
Solzhenitsyn Biographer: Cross-In-Dirt Gulag Story Never Happened
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The apolitical civil service has been relied on for the day-to-day running of the territory's government.
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They acted professionally and apolitically and are showing us now that they will respect the popular electoral will.
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We are an apolitical organisation, with our headquarters in Delhi.
