Adon backed away, through the indifferent crowd that viewed the spectacle with mild interest, and bolted toward the street.

Japanese elections are usually about slogans, sound trucks blaring candidates' names and young women in white gloves waving to indifferent crowds.

A hard, cold light streams down on Matthew and renders his conversion all the more powerful by his isolation among the indifferent crowd.

The usual types walked the pier - a sleepy indifferent crowd.

"The dark times are behind us..." he says to a mostly indifferent crowd, forcing a politician's smile.

But the crowd, cruelly indifferent, was all around like a surging sea.

At any other moment in the past months, the rough public bathing on the edge of an indifferent crowd would have been unspeakable.

While some bands are intimidated or turned off by angry or indifferent crowds, Chevelle have no problem with those audiences.

The crowd in the room, indifferent at first, had begun to take notice of this pretty girl's importunate demands.