Example Sentences

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He tried to talk to her despite her unending rebuffs, he followed her about and endeavored to interest her, he presented a hide-bound unsensitiveness when she did her worst.

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

They let themselves be swept into the great surge of the underground river with all of the rather thick-skinned unsensitiveness to shoulder-to-shoulder contact which the Subway engenders.

From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Hurst, Fannie

This same unsensitiveness to routine had enhanced his value with Slocum-Hines from delivery boy at fifteen to second-assistant buyer at twenty-five, an amenability, however, that threatened to pauperize him of any capacity for play.

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie

Fanny Burney produced novels fit for women's and family reading, yet full of humor of a masculine vigor—and it must be added, with something of masculine unsensitiveness.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley