True, the hostility it unleashed against Mr Miller's work has mellowed in recent years to an even-tempered indifference, but it has been four decades since the playwright had a big critical or commercial hit in America.

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Among the dominant themes are the courage and nobility of Southern soldiers in the face of great odds and the indifference or even dislike of slavery felt by many of them.

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Manchester's players took the matter of going a goal down with uncharacteristic indifference, with even goalkeeper Raimond van der Gouw almost remembering not to get upset at his defenders' lackadaisical approach.

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Slavic indifference and obedience to fate will probably trump even social media.

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But instead I met indifference, denial, resistance, and even an accusation: that I was using the UVa study as a pretext to abandon the poor.

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Even for a believer in Europe, a stage should come when indifference is the right attitude, when Europe can be left to get on with its business while nations get on with theirs.

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Wherever evil struck, the righteous stood up, even at the risk of their own lives, against the violence of killers and the indifference of many others.

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That seems to make it even plainer that Brazil's stance towards Colombia's wars is no longer one of indifference.

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