insensibility

Example Sentences

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“It is not a sign of insensibility: it is a sign of optimism and at the same time of innocence.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2014

There are lots of little gratuitous shots in there that also reflect an insensibility to parts of reality.

From Salon • Nov. 18, 2002

Gaylin believes this insensibility stems from a lack of identity with anyone else or with the community.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1945 he dared to confront the wasting, undramatic and wearying-to-the-marrowbone enemies: insensibility, indifference and malice toward any expression of hope.

From Time Magazine Archive

I stopped and my senses poised themselves on the brink of insensibility, ready to swoop away at the merest nod from me.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya