insentient
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“I began gradually to stir into another style of life, less theoretical and less optimistic, less vulnerable. I was ready for an insentient middle age,” he wrote in “The Savage God.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2019
There, with the ability to talk to the unresponsive living, his nerves "insentient now as string," he longs even for the pain of Hell.
From Time Magazine Archive
It hung over the suspended waves of the hills, an insentient pivot without which the world would not exist.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
With his burden lying like an insentient log on his arm, Taurus Antinor fell up at last against the door of the house; his foot had stumbled against its corner-stone.
From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
"But what harm will it be if there is no perception of a thing's being insentient?"
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava
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