insensible

Example Sentences

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But the Cylinder Sling by Building Block flirts with such attitude without becoming rude or insensible.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2024

"The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, passed in 1958, requires all animals be 'rendered insensible to pain' before being shackled or killed — all animals except for poultry," she notes.

From Salon • May 10, 2023

Gadot’s Wonder Woman doesn’t fight for rights because she transcends that fight; she is unfettered by it and insensible to it, an implausible post-feminist hero.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 2, 2017

One sensible reaction to living in an insensible world is to create a world of your own, and that’s exactly what we heard on many of the year’s best recordings.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2015

But it did not take her long to realize that he was as insensible to her begging as the colonel would have been, and that they were armored by the same impermeability of affection.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez