How To Use Insensibility In A Sentence
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Giovanni's rage was quelled into an aspect of sullen insensibility.
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The conference social life was its usual nightmare - all these fat birds dancing round their handbags and their blokes drinking themselves into insensibility.
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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
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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
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His usual sullen insensibility is disrupted by unpredictable explosions of rage.
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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.
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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
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The presence of evil should provoke a righteous anger, which if absent constitutes a sinful insensibility…
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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
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This produces a chilling assessment of a future of surplus insensibility.
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But there were those who faced a more protracted end: numbed into insensibility after days of clinging to a raft or boat in the stormy north Atlantic.
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Or if they have witnessed the cruelties of slavery, by remaining silent spectators they have naturally become callous - an insensibility has ensued which prepares them to apologize even for barbarity.
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He showed total insensibility to the animal's fate.
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Having bartered away his waistcoat, shirt, and stockings, and drank until he is in a state of total insensibility, he is a perfect skeleton.
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As the Burns report says: ‘in the vast majority of cases the time [from capture] to insensibility and death is no more than a few seconds’ - to which one may add that this is a better deal than a wild animal can normally expect.
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The only option is to drug her into insensibility and unconsciousness.
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Other animals, which, on account of their interests having been neglected by the insensibility of the ancient jurists, stand degraded into the class of things.
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There is a partial insensibility of the skin, and so great a hebetude of the intellectual faculties, as to be like a person half asleep, that is with difficulty aroused and kept awake.
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In our behaviour, there is an increased insensibility and a frightening decrease of civility, decency and sense of justice.
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For to be without grief having health, that they call insensibility, and not pleasure.
The Second Book. Of their journeying or travelling abroad, with divers other matters cunningly reasoned, and wittily discussed
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After passing through the cicatricial tissue (the amount of which tissue, of course, controls the length of time that insensibility remains), the growing axis-cylinders reach the degenerated portions of the nerve below the point of section.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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In a proportion of cases it results from massive injuries to the chest and vital organs, although insensibility and death will normally follow within a matter of seconds once the fox is caught.
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Half-frozen, half-starved, undergoing untold misery and hardship, beaten many and many a time into insensibility, I became the sheerest animal.
CHAPTER 12
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He showed total insensibility to the animal's fate.
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Who can say it has not its energies of reason and of will in some unknown sphere, quite consistently with the reality of its insensibility to the external world?
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In contrast to anaesthesia, which signifies loss of feeling - including such sensations as heat and cold, consciousness being optional - the Oxford English Dictionary defines analgesia as insensibility to pain; painlessness.
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My first three times back to work I came home to find him in varying degrees of insensibility from drink.
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When the chickens pass through it, in theory, it shocks them into insensibility and immobilizes them.
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There is a strange and peculiar sensation experienced in recovering from a state of insensibility, which is almost indescribable: a sort of dreamy, confused consciousness; a half-waking, half-sleeping condition, accompanied with a feeling of weariness, which, however, is by no means disagreeable.
The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
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This brawniness and insensibility of mind, is the best armour we can have against the common evils and accidents of life; and being a temper that is to be got by exercise and custom, more than any other way, the practice of it should be begun betimes; and happy is he that is taught it early.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 111-120
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Commend me to what you call the insensibility of the
Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
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Critic Geoffrey Hartman has recently described the impact of suffering on collective consciousness in the late twentieth century as ‘the progress of insensibility, or future non-shock.’
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He faded into insensibility, and passed from his blameless life on 12 February 1804, unaccompanied by his former intellectual powers.
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At the root of the hysterical fear of premature burial was the fact that physicians recognized, and patients suffered, a number of peculiar conditions characterized by immobility and insensibility, and known variously as trance, catalepsy, cataplexy, and suspended animation.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
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Thank the Gods for a woman like her - with the addled sanity of palace life, and my own befuddling emotions, she is sense in the face of total insensibility.
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Kitsch, using for raw material the debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture, welcomes and cultivates this insensibility.
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He was savagely beaten into insensibility.
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But there were those who faced a more protracted end: numbed into insensibility after days of clinging to a raft or boat in the stormy north Atlantic.
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The ongoing investigation by police and other related agencies is unveiling, as expected, shocking facts about our insensibility to safety measures at the mass-transit system used by millions of commuters every day.
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I despised myself, accused myself in turn of insensibility, superficiality, of disrespect.
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Thank heaven! we meet with few minds like that of Sir Charles Verville; such a degree of savage insensibility is unnatural.
The History of Emily Montague
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What it was hoped to achieve was to reduce the time to insensibility as far as was practical, not instantaneous insensibility, but what was practical under those conditions.
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They were strangers to that grace of wisdom which is liberally given to all who ask it; and their insensibility was all the more inexcusable that so many miracles had been performed which might have led to a certain conviction of the presence and the power of God with them.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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But this _insensibility_, this heartlessness, gives very much the effect of a positive and real ill nature, and M. Bergson had thus simply repeated and expressed in a new way, more precise and correct, the opinion of Aristotle: the cause of laughter is malice mitigated by insensibility or the absence of sympathy.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology
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The other two potentialities described in the Sankhya philosophy, rajas, physical dynamism and tamas, insensibility, are rendered ineffective.
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Her deportment was the subject of reams of scurrility in prose and verse: it lowered her in the opinion of some whose esteem she valued; nor did the world know, till she was beyond the reach of praise and censure, that the conduct which had brought on her the reproach of levity and insensibility was really a signal instance of that perfect disinterestedness and selfdevotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
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Those indications which the physicians receive, and those presagitions which they give for death or recovery in the patient, they receive and they give out of the grounds and the rules of their art; but we have no such rule or art to give a presagition of spiritual death and damnation upon any such indication as we see in any dying man; we see often enough to be sorry, but not to despair; we may be deceived both ways: we use to comfort ourself in the death of a friend, if it be testified that he went away like a lamb, that is, without any reluctation; but God knows that may be accompanied with a dangerous damp and stupefaction, and insensibility of his present state.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
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It was obvious now… each time I thought about my relationship with Kiley, I justified it by Carter's insensibility.
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I am very solicitous, both by study and argument, to enlarge this privilege of insensibility, which is in me naturally raised to a pretty degree, so that consequently I espouse and am very much moved with very few things.
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
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Such cut severs all the great blood vessels of the neck, and produces instantaneous insensibility in the animal.
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He praised her, therefore, for qualities he wished her to possess, encouraged her to reject general opinions by admiring as the symptoms of a superior understanding, the convenient morality upon which she had occasionally acted; and, calling sternness justice, extolled that for strength of mind, which was only callous insensibility.
The Italian
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Her spokeswoman said: ‘Ms Andrews firmly believes that while the entire world is in mourning, it would be an expression of insensibility on her part to participate in a festive act.’
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But Prospero's insensibility to the nonhuman processes not merely behind and beyond the battlements, is ‘immune’ - as Prynne once wrote of the rain - ‘to all denial’.
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It is an effective process which induces immediate unconsciousness and insensibility or an induction to a period of unconsciousness without distress.
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His eventual recourse to a standard of five argues indifference or insensibility.
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He has reproached me for what he terms my insensibility to his perfections, and says
Turns of Fortune And Other Tales
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That, in addition to the ordinary manifestations of insensibility to pain, rigidity, and what is called clairvoyance, the patients affected with the more intense conditions of the malady have at all times exhibited a marvellous command of languages;
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
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Maybe it's just me who's decaying, sinking into a state of complete insensibility, and not knowing what to do to fix it.
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In my view best practice is based on the definition that we had earlier that it is least disturbance of the animal in its natural environment and it is the most rapid route to insensibility.
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British soldiers often drank themselves into insensibility in the ‘wet canteen’.
