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showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity

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The vision of all this as what ought to be done seemed to Dorothea like a sudden letting in of daylight, waking her from her previous stupidity and incurious self-absorbed ignorance about her husband's relation to others.
He claims that the First Lady described the Queen as a "middle-aged woman so incurious, unintelligent and unremarkable that Britain's new reduced place in the world was not a surprise but an inevitability".
Almost all his appointees are, like him, underwhelming, intellectually incurious rubes.' Justice Tanko is the latest instantiation of Buhari's passion for attracting and elevating people who mirror his own well-known incompetence and witlessness.
So Muslim thought turned insular, repetitive and incurious. The big question By the 17th century, in Muslim India, Ahmad Al Sirhindi, a prominent scholar also known as Imam Rabbani, was marking the dogmatic turn when he condemned all 'philosophers' and their 'stupid' disciplines.
Summary: From the 12th century, Muslim thought turned insular, repetitive and incurious
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.
He elaborated that rancid oil were used for shining purpose of the spices which is incurious to health.
I remember being a serene and incurious thing, a consumer of nail polish and palm readers and Coca-Cola.
At the end of all the slaughter, the Islamic world remains incurious about Koranic criticism, immured in an ideology that rejects self-examination.
When the restless Magi appeared and Herod asked the leaders to explain what their Scriptures foretold about a messiah, the chief priests and scribes could cite chapter and verse, all while remaining complacent, unaffected and incurious. That was their first step toward not only massively missing the point, but also developing a specialty of trying to thwart what God had begun to do through the newborn Jesus.
While the US insists on knowing exactly how a student will meet the cost of tuition and stay while in the country, agencies in India are wholly incurious about such data.
Even a former "Remainer" like Karen Bradley, the current secretary of state for Northern Ireland, recently confessed that, "when I started this job, I didn't understand some of the deep-seated and deep-rooted issues that there are in Northern Ireland." In other words, until very recently, she has been incurious about one of the central issues of 19th- and 20th-century British history.
Even an erstwhile "Remainer" like Karen Bradley, the current Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, recently confessed that, "[...] when I started this job, I didn't understand some of the deep-seated and deep-rooted issues that there are in Northern Ireland." In other words, until very recently, she has been incurious about one of the central issues of 19th- and 20th-century British history.
Even an erstwhile "Remainer" like Karen Bradley, the current Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, recently confessed that, "[.] when I started this job, I didn't understand some of the deep-seated and deep-rooted issues that there are in Northern Ireland." In other words, until very recently, she has been incurious about one of the central issues of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British history.
In particular, the book - together with an anonymous New York Times op-ed by a senior administration official - showed how far aides would go to keep an incurious, ignorant, and paranoid president from impulsively doing something disastrous.