Sacred blue is a literal English equivalent of the French phrase sacrebleu. Specifically, the word combines the adjectives sacre (sacred) and bleu (blue). The phrase nevertheless functions somewhat as a curse which translates more politely as my God! or zounds!.
apathy - an absence of emotion or enthusiasm. 1  feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states; she had a feeling of euphoria; he had terrible feelings of guilt; I disliked him and the feeling was mutual.
Indifference and insensibility designate the absence of feeling toward certain persons or things; apathy, entire absence of feeling. Indifference is a want of interest; insensibility is a want of feeling; unconcern has reference to consequences.We speak of insensibility of heart, immobility of countenance.here are persons to whom a certain degree of apathy is natural, an innate sluggishness of the emotional nature. In the apathy of despair, a person gives up, without resistance or sensibility, to what he has fiercely struggled to avoid.