insensible

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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

The novel positions him as insensible to agendas, hopelessly subject to the whims of the altruistic and the cruel.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2022

The car is a dark conglomerate of metal, glass, and plastic, as inanimate and insensible as a stone.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019

Taciturn, silent, insensible to the new breath of vitality that was shaking the house, Colonel Aureliano Buendía could understand only that the secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

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