insensibility

Example Sentences

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There is but one species of affectation, to be more severely reprehended, in this connection, than that now considered; it is the opposite of this, a feigned Insensibility.

From The Young Maiden by Muzzey, A. B. (Artemas Bowers)

Insensibility, sin against fortitude, 2446 b; vice opposed to temperance, 2464.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

I think my time is come, I don’t know how it may appear to you, Sally, but—” Insensibility fell upon him for a few minutes; he emerged from it once more.

From No Thoroughfare by Collins, Wilkie

Insensibility to the power, we have observed, is no index of anything virtuous or elevated.

From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander

Insensibility is very quick in the conventional use of words.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George