How To Use Insensible In A Sentence

He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin. Ulysses
She remained insensible of the dangers that lay ahead.
She, perhaps, is dead now, for when he last called she was bedrid, and nearly insensible. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
Finally, we know that Father Doria very likely will not be saved, because he is sadistic, "avaricious" 88, and completely insensible to Guilo's youth, innocence, gentleness, and beauty. The Boy Martyr; Or, Manfresti's Page. A Story of 1567
He was taken to see the doctors but fell into a coma and was insensible for three months.

Honorius could remain insensible of the public disgrace, he might perhaps be affected by the personal misfortunes of his generous kinsmen. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
He oftentimes is so absurd and insensible of kindnesses done him that he renders evil for good. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
The sudden sensory deprivation is not going to render a grown man or even small child insensible and throw them into fits of panic.
insensible to pain
However, there are conditions that may increase so-called insensible losses through sites such as the skin.
However the exaltedness of some minds (or rather as I shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterise and paint nature) yet surely they are as weighty and much more useful than your grave discourses upon the mind, the passions, and what not.” Fielding
She remained insensible of the dangers that lay ahead.
Nilsen made sure the men he killed were insensible from drink before he strangled them, and wrote tenderly about them after the killing was over.
In eroticism the poles of life and death, being and nothingness, fullness and emptiness are one, dissolved like subject and object in the insensible totality of things.
insensible to the suffering around him
I took it, but my relief was mingled with insensible annoyance at the trifling penalty.
She is utterly insensible to the fact that Henry's scandal might affect her in any way.
The inhabitants seem insensible to these impressions, and are apt to imagine the disgust that we avow is little better than affectation; but they ought to have some compassion for strangers, who have not been used to this kind of sufferance; and consider, whether it may not be worth while to take some pains to vindicate themselves from the reproach that, on this account, they bear among their neighbours. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
For those are called insensible who are deficient with regard to pleasures of touch. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
No artery or important blood vessel was severed by any of the wounds inflicted upon him, but he was for a long time insensible from the loss of blood. Foreign and Colonial Intelligence
( "Abigail, insensible to these strands that Serge's ear's unpicking, coughs on the Melkonian he offers her and, waving smoke from her eyes, complains.") The Fear of a Failure to Communicate
The pioneer is insensible to arguments touching the future supply… The want of foresight that permitted the destruction of these magnificent forests will be bitterly lamented.
I'm not insensible how much I owe to your help.
This operation gives not the least pain to the bird, the point of the hook merely taking hold in the horny and insensible tip of the bill.
Masters and slaves exchanged roles and both ‘ate and drank themselves insensible; they would lurch to the vomitorium and stagger back for the next course.’
From The Evolution List via Telic Thoughts Perhaps Darwin's most important insight was his realization that species are not immutable, that they can intergrade over time in an "insensible series. At What Level did this Evolve?
The female appears insensible to this flagellatory twirl. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
'Nec dierum numerum, ut nos, sed noctium computant,' said Mr. Raikes, and both the brothers sniffed like dogs that have put their noses to a hot coal, and the Countess, who was less insensible to the aristocracy of the dead languages than are women generally, gave him the recognition that is occasionally afforded the family tutor. Evan Harrington — Volume 7
The young lady, though not insensible, became paralyzed with horror, and remained in a kind of cataleptic trance, fully conscious, but unable to move or speak, until, at nine o'clock next day, no answer having been given to repeated calls of her maid, the doors were forced open. Purgatory
And I thought the whole point of going to the pub was to become insensible.
Hilary herself was not insensible to the pleasantness of this warm, well-lit, crimson-atmosphered apartment. Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.
I think he's largely insensible to other people's distress.
Neither were they thankful; not thankful for the favours in general they received from God (insensibleness of God's mercies is at the bottom of our sinful departures from him); not thankful in particular for the discoveries God was pleased to make of himself to them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
With VeriChip all a crook would have to do is render a holder insensible - hardly difficult in a nightclub - and free drinks are theirs for the night.
I have other deeds – The Baroness could hear no more; she was carried insensible from the apartment. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story
This normally took the form of an excrescence or area of skin that was insensible to pain.
Also, if there is a means of rendering an animal insensible before cutting, then surely this is what is required in a compassionate society.
Rieff now contends that such an insensible change has become not a danger but an appalling fact.
Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
But the order of male succession was asserted by the friends of their country; the lawful heir drew the royal signet from the finger of his insensible or conscious father and the empire obeyed the master of the palace. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
While hypnotized, the client generally hears and remembers much of what is being spoken, is not completely insensible during the session and can freely choose to disregard any suggestions the hypnotherapist makes.
But now I have heard this insensible and necrophilous oath, "¡Viva la Muerte!", and I, having spent my life writing paradoxes that have provoked the ire of those who do not understand what I have written, and being an expert in this matter, find this ridiculous paradox repellent. Archive 2009-03-01
About two o'clock in the day he complained of a feeling of faintness, said he felt ill and should not recover; and in a few minutes was insensible with symptoms of ingravescent apoplexy. John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 3
She had also said many other things, but to Mary it had seemed like insensible babble.
I sometimes catch myself wondering what the world will be like after I am dead and trying to tell myself that it will not matter because I will be insensible to it.
But now I have heard this insensible and necrophilous oath, "¡Viva la Muerte! ¡Viva la Muerte!
Another perhaps added to these the ideas of fusibility and fixedness, two other passive powers, in relation to the operation of fire upon it; another, its ductility and solubility in aqua regia, two other powers, relating to the operation of other bodies, in changing its outward figure, or separation of it into insensible parts. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
She was quite insensible to the tone in which I had spoken; she went on from bad to worse.
Perhaps Darwin's most important insight was his realization that species are not immutable, that they can intergrade over time in an "insensible series. At What Level did this Evolve?
For many people, the Explorer is stigmatic of a kind of insensible, big-gut consumerism — it's not an entirely fair impression, but such is the warp and weave of culture. The Pioneering SUV Isn't One Anymore
For those who like stories of brave lads surviving training then doing their bit blowing up bridges, knifing the Hun and drinking themselves insensible while on leave, then this is for you.
Thus the body of the witch might be subjected to penetration by bodkins or needles as the insensible spot was sought.
Another brother slumped on the floor, insensible to the fact that he was sitting in his mother's blood.
Sahim had aroused Ajib, whom he had made insensible with henbane and had brought to his brother Gharib, the captive opened his eyes and, feeling himself bound and shackled, hung down his head earthwards. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
In the process of impressionistically conveying that Jim seems acted upon by occult forces that render him insensible to reason, Marlow is himself diverted from his narrative intent.
he lay insensible where he had fallen
Dehydration is particularly likely to occur in small children because of decreased intake during an extended period of respiratory distress, combined with increased insensible losses.
At the moment, he was almost insensible with fatigue.
At Lord's I kept thinking how strange it must feel for Sri Lanka, playing a game that draws empty seats back home, but here in London's Greatest Beer Garden inspires a full house of the often insensible, the beer-goggled, the bladder-swollen, the game's faithful backbone lolling dutifully in their high-priced seats, all doing their bit for English cricket's new economy of the sozzled. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
Upon hearing this frank declaration, which was made as they left the apartment with the wounded man, Lord Menteith darted upon Dalgetty a look of extreme anger and disdain, to which the self-conceit of the worthy commander rendered him totally insensible. A Legend of Montrose
No matter what, there are some times that you reasonable be dressed to explain to everyone that you dire term insensible from everybody but that idiosyncratic person. Article directories Celibataire Urbaine
“And thou, old man, if thou art insensible to threats of personal danger in this matter, remember, that if thou art found paltering with us, thy punishment will perhaps be more severe than any we can inflict upon thy person.” Castle Dangerous
I agree in thinking it probable that few women, capable of anything else, would, unless under an irresistible _entrainement_, rendering them for the time insensible to anything but itself, choose such a lot, when any other means were open to them of filling a conventionally honourable place in life: and if men are determined that the law of marriage shall be a law of despotism, they are quite right, in point of mere policy, in leaving to women only Hobson's choice. The Subjection of Women
At about 9:10 am, two workers were found insensible in their dormitory on Jingyuan Lu.
This would make me woozy and two glasses would render me insensible.
-- From these openings, there constantly passes a vapor, forming what we call the insensible perspiration. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
We found her lying on the floor, drunk and insensible.
It has been properly observed, that there are preparations which so indurate the cuticle, as to render it insensible to the heat of either boiling oil or melted lead; and the fatal qualities of certain poisons may be destroyed, if the medium through which they are imbibed, as we suppose to. be the case here, is a strong alkali. Miracle Mongers and Their Methods
They take me, insensible, up the ladder to their prison and have me tied down in boxes where the winter wind comes in the gaps and freezes them.
The course of these loves is necessarily "accidented," and the accidents are well enough managed from the first, and naturally enough best known, where Celadon flings himself into the river and is rescued, insensible but alive, by nymphs, who all admire him very much, though none of them can affect his passion for Astrée. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
Diaphoretics differ from sudorifics; the former only increase the insensible perspiration, the latter excite the sensible discharge called sweat.
The diseased testicle is enlarged, firm, nonelastic, and comparatively insensible. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
Meanwhile, go read some of the fine blogs at the side there, and I'll just nip off and quietly drink myself insensible in the hiatus.
Consequently, incubator care is associated with less insensible water loss, and lower fluid requirements, than nursing infants in open cots under radiant heaters.
By harping constantly only on the scenario in which guns may actually prove to be useful and can legitimately be used, we appear as people who are grossly out of touch with, and insensible to, the real nature and extent of the problem.
They are insensible to their own external effects, those they produce in other domains.
This seal of the devil is a small sign-manual, which, as demonological jurisconsults affirm, renders the skin insensible. A Philosophical Dictionary
I go out and become insensible with drink and end up in hospital.
Mitchell was furious and unable to shake the conviction that he was being victimized by insensible directives from abroad.
Their _charge_ or injunction would shew them insensible of his wrongs, and make them _shew like enemies_. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
Although best watched when insensible with drink, The Adventures Of Grey Boab is as shamefully hypnotic as a car crash.
As he thus echoed the cry of triumph uttered by the Scots when bursting open the outer gate of the tower, the foundations of the building shook, and Lady Mar, almost insensible with terror, received the exhausted body of her husband into her arms; he fainted from the transport his weakened frame was unable to bear. The Scottish Chiefs
The small or extremely immature infant < 1000 g will experience increased insensible water losses.
This seal of the devil is a small sign-manual, which, as demonological jurisconsults affirm, renders the skin insensible. A Philosophical Dictionary
I begin to understand it: but I confess that the idea of insensible heat is so new and strange to me, that it requires some time to render it familiar. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
The choreography keeps this single-mindedness through the four sections of Lou Harrison's score: often, the dancers seem to work at staying insensible of those nearby, yet their movements coordinate perfectly with others.
Peter Bell is a potter, a lawless, roving man, insensible to the beauty of nature.
It is the extreme mobility of which man is capable, owing to his peculiar organization, that distinguishes him from other beings that are called insensible or inanimate; the different degrees of this mobility, of which the individuals of his species are susceptible, discriminate them from each other; make that incredible variety, that infinity of difference which is to be found, as well in their corporeal faculties, as in those which are mental or intellectual. The System of Nature, Volume 1
The bluejacket was brought aboard insensible but soon recovered. Castles of Steel
He is stern and severe -- with fixed principles of _duty_ which _nothing_ on earth will make him change; very _clever_ I do _not_ think him, and his mind is an uncivilised one; his education has been neglected; politics and military concerns are the only things he takes great interest in; the arts and all softer occupations he is insensible to, but he is sincere, I am certain, _sincere_ even in his most despotic acts, from a sense that that _is_ the _only_ way to govern; he is not, I am sure, aware of the dreadful cases of individual misery which he so often causes, for I can see by various instances that he is kept in utter ignorance of The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861
On the sixteenth, looseness of the bowels from a stimulant clyster; afterwards she passed her drink, nor could retain anything, for she was completely insensible; skin parched and tense. Of The Epidemics
Not a teenybopper in the country was insensible to Charlie Simpson's departure from Busted, and while their hopes soared, critics of the band began to queue up to slate them before they had even touched their instruments.
It is by the finest tints and most insensible gradations that nature descends from the fairest face about St. James's to the sootiest complexion in Africa. Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race.
Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. The Elements of Character
On these occasions, it was said, he was insensible to both fatigue and heat.
Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform and insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding
The girls came out of the cottage doors to look at him, as he made the fiery little beast curvet and prance along the road; and he was evidently not insensible to the looks of admiration of these young ladies, as they muffled up their faces in their blue rebozos and looked at him through the narrow opening. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
In the ordinary state of the skin, even when there is no apparent perspiration, it is constantly exhaling waste matter, in a form which is called _insensible perspiration_, because it cannot be perceived by the senses. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
an almost insensible change
It may well be believed, that such an apparition could not be witnessed with gravity, and, accordingly a general titter ran through the room, the whist party still contending about odd tricks and honours, being the only persons insensible to the mirth around them -- "Miss Betty, arrah, Miss Betty," said Nicholas with a sigh that converted the subdued laughter of the guests into a perfect burst of mirth. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1
But that it should so stupify, as to make a person, at times, insensible to those imaginary wrongs, which would raise others from stupifaction, is very surprising! Clarissa Harlowe
Some are in jail, some are medicated insensible, some are living lives of dangerous poverty.
In the summer, Saturday would bring a golf tournament, and the slugging back of cans on the course to maintain his equilibrium, before another night of drinking himself insensible, sometimes accompanied by bed-wetting.
But Gillray is not insensible to the ironies of human existence, and if he is patriotically attached to the values that he believes make his country the superior of its enemies, he is certainly no xenophobe.
They were thrown out of a pony carriage and Sir Watkins Wynn was picked up insensible.
Few lads could have been more insensible to the impressions of a life thus passed among the ensigns of mortality.
Her outstanding flaw is the ability to be totally insensible to the feelings of others.
insensible earth
It doesn't render them unconscious or make them insensible to pain.
Apparently, he is a rather high-level alcoholic, insensible between takes, though perfectly clear when required on cam.
_Lady S. _ Yes, that insensible, that doater on an idiot, is the man. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01
Once having imbibed too much liquor he became sleepy and insensible.
Although she was odd, silently I knew I enjoyed her insensible babble.
I could recover my legs, I made a blow at him with my attaghan, fully expecting that he would disappear in a flame of fire at the touch of a true believer; but, on the contrary, he had also recovered his legs, and with a large cane with a gold top on it, he parried my cut, and then saluted me with such a blow on my head, that I again fell down in the mud, quite insensible. The Pacha of Many Tales

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