insentient
Example Sentences
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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
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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
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The kernel, the man himself—seemed so tender—the covering so stiff and insentient.
From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
The insentient, which while unconscious is dependent on the conscious, is of two kinds, as styled the effect and as styled the cause.
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.