Example Sentences

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“It is not a sign of insensibility: it is a sign of optimism and at the same time of innocence.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2014

There are lots of little gratuitous shots in there that also reflect an insensibility to parts of reality.

From Salon • Nov. 18, 2002

Gaylin believes this insensibility stems from a lack of identity with anyone else or with the community.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here stands an enemy who is not intelligent, but instead one who toughly builds a collective of destruction from insensibility.

From Time Magazine Archive

I stopped and my senses poised themselves on the brink of insensibility, ready to swoop away at the merest nod from me.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya