insensibility

How To Use insensibility In A Sentence

• Giovanni's rage was quelled into an aspect of sullen insensibility.
• The conference social life was its usual nightmare - all these fat birds dancing round their handbags and their blokes drinking themselves into insensibility.
• But his attempt seems to us to disclose a more extraordinary insensibility to the real demands of the case, and to what we cannot help calling the pitiable inadequacy of his own explanation, than we could have conceived possible in so keen and practised a mind. Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890
• One minute it was here, canopying her soul to drugged insensibility, the next minute it was gone, leaving her alone in her body. next » Excerpt: The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
• His usual sullen insensibility is disrupted by unpredictable explosions of rage.
• By this time, we've learned that a willed insensibility was one of Brahms's characteristic traits, one which he used to fend off bits of the world he didn't like.
• Moral insensibility, which is decidedly more congenital than contracted, is either total or partial, and is displayed in criminals who inflict personal injuries, as much as in others, with a variety of symptoms which I have recorded elsewhere, and which are eventually reduced to these conditions of the moral sense in a large number of criminals -- a lack of repugnance to the idea and execution of the offence, previous to its commission, and the absence of remorse after committing it. Criminal Sociology
• The presence of evil should provoke a righteous anger, which if absent constitutes a sinful insensibility…
• One attendant, on the very day he had been discharged for choking a patient into an insensibility so profound that it had been necessary to call a physician to restore him, said to me, "They are getting pretty damned strict these days, discharging a man simply for _choking_ a patient. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography
• This produces a chilling assessment of a future of surplus insensibility.