How To Use Insensitive In A Sentence

And it was perhaps insensitive to try to sell pet funerals to distressed purchasers. Times, Sunday Times
Deuterium is a relatively insensitive nucleus because it has a low gyromagnetic ratio and the spectral intensity is generally spread over an extremely wide frequency range due to the quadrupole interaction.
The article seemed somewhat insensitive and ageist to me.
His remarks are also particularly insensitive as we approach the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings when so many soldiers gave their lives to help liberate Europe.
Critics called the plot insensitive and offensive, raising questions about why this book was published in the first place. Christianity Today

Some astrologers claim that scientific research is impersonal or unspiritual or insensitive to deeper truths.
He was vain, egotistical, boorish and gloriously insensitive.
Teeth form mainly from neuroectoderm and comprise a crown of insensitive enamel surrounding sensitive dentine and a root that has no enamel covering.
The followers we studied that hyperpolarize in response to HA and show increasing membrane conductance are insensitive to NO.
I don't want to be thought insensitive, but I do think we should go ahead despite the accident.
I've apologized for the - you know, the remarks and what they seemed to infer in such an insensitive way.
Consumers Union criticized the FDA for using antiquated and insensitive laboratory techniques that could not measure Alar below 500 parts per billion ppb, stating in Consumer Reports: "Looking for daminozide [Alar's a trade name] in apple juice with PAM II [the test method used by FDA] is like trying to catch speeders with a radar gun that doesn't work for speeds under 100 mph. Wendy Gordon: The True Alar Story III
He denied the announcement was clumsy and insensitive.
Insensitive bureaucrats in the capital should not be allowed to procrastinate and thereby delay the delivery of food to the needy.
One said: 'There are a number of people on set who think it is quite insensitive to air something like this. The Sun
_not_ feeling pain, into matter _feeling_ pain, is only to change its "form," and, if the process of "changing form" is of no "consequence" in the case of sensitive and insensitive matter, we must admit that it is _also_ of no "consequence" in the case of pain-feeling and _not_ pain-feeling matter. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
But the lawyers said it might be culturally insensitive. Times, Sunday Times
Critics called the plot insensitive and offensive, raising questions about why this book was published in the first place. Christianity Today
He seems insensitive to the sound that comes from the orchestra. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
The Front rescues gnomes from garden centres where they are insensitively placed among bottles of toxic garden chemicals.
Rules have distinct advantages as behavioral guides, but they can promote rigid responding that is insensitive to changed contingencies.
We become insensitive to pain, cold, wind, homesickness, thirst, hunger.
I'm always surprised at how insensitive people can be. The Sun
Like so many Scandinavian creatives of his epoch, he seems utterly insensitive to any of the colours or possibilities of the new century. Times, Sunday Times
He accused the Canadian anti-globalisation movement of being racist and insensitive to Native and Québecois history for using a maple leaf as its symbol.
The reason for the replacement is that IMX-101 is even more stable than TNT, which when invented was hailed as famously insensitive to shock and other conditions which would reliably detonate other high explosives of the day such as guncotton and nitroglycerine. Everything2 New Writeups
You must be that insensitive clod dating Bridget Harrison.
This latter hypothesis is very unlikely also because the emission spectrum of fluorene is almost completely insensitive to solvent polarity.
The men are condemned as callous and culturally insensitive. Times, Sunday Times
Some might call him insensitive, callous even, but he believes there's some plain talk that America and a large part of the rest of the world needs to hear.
Pupils at Bwacha High school in Kabwe yesterday demonstrated, demanding the removal of their head teacher whom they accused of being rude and insensitive to their needs.
The men are condemned as callous and culturally insensitive. Times, Sunday Times
I shall not dignify this insensitive remark with an answer
It was rather insensitive of you to mention his dead wife.
I have become insensitive to pain. Times, Sunday Times
So, the Saturday Night Live/SNL Tiger Woods skit is drawing some criticism, not for ripping on Tiger, but for being insensitive about domestic abuse on the same show that Rihanna was the musical guest. Tiger Woods Christmas Picture Shows PhotoShopped Tiger Beat Up by Wife
The government seems totally insensitive to the mood of the country.
True, it does seem a tad insensitive when his people are left to starve. Times, Sunday Times
The government seems totally insensitive to the mood of the country.
Developmental psychobiologists reject a basic idea at the heart of much discussion of innateness, which is that evolution makes development reliable by making it insensitive to environmental parameters. The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics
When I just go ahead and speak my mind, inevitably it comes out sounding like I am an insensitive, unsympathetic rationalist.
I don't come across as insensitive to people 's situations. Christianity Today
When did our leaders become so gauche, impolite, rude and downright insensitive?
It was a bit insensitive of Fiona to go on so much about fat people when she knows Mandy is desperate to lose weight.
We should point out that Rosenberger is by no means insensitive to the responsibilities of those dishing out satire and ridicule.
This was considered insensitive and uneconomical.
The men are condemned as callous and culturally insensitive. Times, Sunday Times
But there again, we have seen similar measures implemented in dentistry and prescriptions, and if the Tories obtain office, then it is quite possible these insensitive proposals may turn into fabrication. A snapshot of a future Tory health service… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
It was the supreme anthem of renunciation, of scorn, of derision at the pretensions of the ungifted and the insensitive.
He and other Democrats accused her of being insensitive to victims of rape, housing discrimination, age discrimination and even racial discrimination.
Examples of regulatory regions that were highly sensitive, moderately sensitive, and insensitive were found.
I find insensitive people ask all the time if we have any. Times, Sunday Times
They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music, even as the impostor popes went down in history as ‘anti-popes’.
The regime is abstract in concept, political in intent and largely insensitive to practical consequences in a highly practical industry.
Mignini reserved some of his toughest words for Knox's character, which he described as "insensitive and lacking affection" in the aftermath of the murder, and called her a liar. The Seattle Times
But Colette was not as insensitive as Christian believed to the reactions she was provoking in her husband. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
Genital blood flow reduction due to become insensitive to sexual arousal and orgasm disorder.
The insensitive Jane firmly replied that she had no use for a husband with a flat head, a half-naked body and copper-colored skin besmirched with whale oil."
She said insensitive things to the overweight woman.
If it would be grotesque and insensitive to boom out the poems and project them through a megaphone, it would be equally inappropriate to read them too delicately and reduce them to something like a whisper.
It is insensitive to scratches, shock, or electrostatic discharge.
The whole arms business has made top politicians, of both main parties, increasingly callous and insensitive.
The chilling and insensitive arrogance of this remark is breathtaking.
In a 1987 study of college-age women and their fathers, all from intact families, found that those daughters most likely to become depressed had fathers who frequently were insensitive, unaffectionate, and unavailable.
Jody quickly calmed her down, knowing that she had just made an insensitive remark.
We arranged a quick wedding but she made insensitive comments to the guests about me not coping because my mother had recently died. The Sun
And Isaiah said later that it was -- I think he used the word insensitive or cruel even, but it was not intended to be cruel. Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop -- Guardians of the American Century
The machine is relatively insensitive to changes in the atmosphere.
The paradox is that tilapia islets produce insulin in a very glucose sensitive manner but simultaneously appear to be peripherally insensitive to insulin.
It is difficult to believe that the Taliban brand of Islam can dehumanise a person to such an extent - making him insensitive to even the sublimest of art form …. What Will Happen to Ancient Art in the Taliban’s Swat?
We may become less sociable, less caring, more hostile and insensitive towards others. Times, Sunday Times
Steffan Rhodri's Paul is the archetypal Ayckbourn male bully, David Armand as the cuckolded John is all restless, arm-waving energy, and Reece Shearsmith as Colin has the bright-eyed bounciness of the truly insensitive. Absent Friends - review
In hindsight this was already a fairly insensitive and stupid thing to do and almost entirely devoid of humour.
That's not to say that she doesn't recognise journalism shares with politics a blokey culture, nor that she is insensitive to power relations.
But of the skills we've acquired, none is handier than our expertise at forgiving white people for saying knuckleheaded, racially-insensitive stuff. Aaron Freeman: Forgiving Ron Paul (and All Other White People)
But for that same reason, because he is "cinematographic," he is often by that much external and insensitive. Public Opinion
The staff was treating her in a very brusque and insensitive manner, and I felt the need to show her some warmth and caring.
I find insensitive people ask all the time if we have any. Times, Sunday Times
Male or female, they can be insensitive, callous, immature, selfish, proud (without base), and chauvinistic.
Despite the magistrate's informative and urgent letters, the Qing central government was insensitive to the additional administrative and budgetary needs of the county yamen in the midst of drastic changes in the nineteenth century.
I'm sorry for being so damned insensitive in the first place, and I'm sorry about the whole Steve thing.
That is, I am insensitive, brutal, clumsy and a big oaf.
Although it can be argued that breaking bad news insensitively or inadequately can lead to poor long-term adjustment for patients (18), the research to support this notion is limited.
Tourists intent on bartering can be hugely insensitive to the fact that the locals they are hammering down to a bargain price may be incredibly poor and the sums involved shamefully petty by our standards.
It was rather insensitive of you to mention his dead wife.
An insensitive rising power can all too easily make enemies and antagonise new friends. Times, Sunday Times
With no-one wishing to appear insensitive or dull-witted the audience gives an enthusiastic response, thereby upsetting Nero.
It all seems so puerile and, dare I say it, insensitive.
To give any more away would make me as insensitive and unfeeling as a cannibal.
The Archbishop seems insensitive to where religious conscience ends and unfair discrimination begins. Times, Sunday Times
He is a potentially fascinating character, charming, brutally insensitive, fun-loving and more of a child than any of his children.
I do take issue with the insensitive, unthoughtful and demeaning comments made about the premises, which I feel reflect badly on the good name of the business.
True, it does seem a tad insensitive when his people are left to starve. Times, Sunday Times
A snorter is a snob expressing their disapproval, while a sniggerer is insensitive, unsympathetic and immature.
Was Sarah correct; That using the term “RETARDS” as a pejorative is insensitive and cruel? Think Progress » Palin says she’s fine with Limbaugh’s use of the ‘r-word.’
His comments have been seen by some victims as crass and insensitive. The Sun
Assemblies, dress requirements, school meals provision and links with parents may be insensitive to different cultural backgrounds and linguistic diversity.
It's also incredibly insensitive that he offers you unsolicited counselling - he should have the grace to maintain the pretence of secrecy. Times, Sunday Times
This is a film so badly made it manages to be as mind-numbingly boring as it is insensitive.
His insensitive remarks hurt and she reacted accordingly.
The academy's headmaster is stressing that only adults can win the prizes, and he says he's not insensitive to gun violence.
The men are condemned as callous and culturally insensitive. Times, Sunday Times
She was highly critical of the insensitive and peremptory way in which the cases had been handled.
Petal wilting has been found to be ethylene-sensitive or insensitive, and these two categories were consistent within families or subfamilies.
was boorish and insensitive
Women have a tough enough time getting their voices heard and my insensitive comment only made matters worse. Times, Sunday Times
But the cantabile ideal fell afoul of early recording technology, which was too insensitive to capture its delicate beauty. What Music Has Lost
How should I raise these intolerable working conditions with my boss without appearing crass and insensitive? Times, Sunday Times
This was particularly the case in Brixton where the riots are thought to have been sparked off by a certain degree of insensitive and heavy-handed policing.
It's tempting to take this study as justification for any overreactions we women may have had to insensitive remarks.
Diploid clones insensitive to rotenone and sensitive to antimycin A + myxothiazol were selected.
The reason I call it insensitive is because I believe that characteristics like intelligence are amorphous and that these characteristics go into making up our sense of self-hood. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail
Guys aren't the only insensitive creeps out there.
It is simply foolish to make such insensitive comments. Times, Sunday Times
Women have a tough enough time getting their voices heard and my insensitive comment only made matters worse. Times, Sunday Times
It is another example not only of dismissiveness of the lesser code, but insensitive timing also.
In barley and Arabidopsis sensitive and insensitive components of the high-affinity K + uptake have been described.
The protective covering must be insensitive to light and heat.
They think being invited back to the next party is more important than calling someone a sexist after an insensitive joke.
Estimation of the length for photoperiodically sensitive and insensitive phases of each genotype on the basis of equation involves an iterative regression procedure.
The insensitive remarks will poison the relationship between the two superpowers.
After long enough, you just roll over and accept the fact that you're a sexist, bigoted, insensitive, crude, cretin.
Bilardo, I feel compelled to add, was also a qualified gynaecologist – something that suggests that either the former Estudiantes midfield bagsnatcher was not quite as insensitive and belligerent as he appeared, or that his life story would make a particularly disturbing David Cronenberg movie. Dressingroomistas v Structuralists: football's perennial problem
I don't come across as insensitive to people 's situations. Christianity Today
Go ahead: call me an insensitive male chauvinist pig.
It was a bit insensitive of Fiona to go on so much about fat people when she knows Mandy is desperate to lose weight.
Barium studies seem to be insensitive to microscopic involvement and may detect only more severe cases.
Republican leaders on Wednesday accused Jim Messina, campaign manager for President Barack Obama, of repeating what they characterized as insulting and insensitive jokes about the Latino community, after he quoted the last sentence of a column by Washington Post's Dana Millbank on a tweet. Pilar Marrero: Republicans and Democrats Argue Over "Chimichangas"
She's completely insensitive to my feelings.
Teens who experienced their parents as insensitive and unavailable are at increased likelihood of depressed mood, poor self-regard, and aggression and hostility toward others.
But the lawyers said it might be culturally insensitive. Times, Sunday Times
His people were saying he was ineffective, was out of touch, was insensitive to the rough times they were going through, wouldn't listen, and didn't lead.
Although it can be argued that breaking bad news insensitively or inadequately can lead to poor long-term adjustment for patients (18), the research to support this notion is limited.
Women's and Latino organizations that say he is insensitive to civil rights.
Even if you take that deep breath, you will find that the capacity for people to say completely ridiculous, stupid, insensitive and inconsiderate tripe knows no bounds.
Workers will have to think twice before telling insensitive jokes or expressing intolerant views which may give offence.
The trouble is that in the process, it is only too easy to become insensitive to some realities which ought to impinge on one's consciousness - and one's conscience.
He was vain, egotistical, boorish and gloriously insensitive.
Teeth form mainly from neuroectoderm and comprise a crown of insensitive enamel surrounding sensitive dentine and a root that has no enamel covering.
My decision to interview rural women in the immediate aftermath of the warand not about the war itselfhas been described as insensitive, and my interest in women's cultural production (tattoos especially) as irrelevant, another unfortunate case of First World privilege ignoring "real" Third World needs. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
I feel that she is being insensitive to the fact that I just need to know there is some potential or otherwise I have to invest my energy elsewhere.
The Archbishop seems insensitive to where religious conscience ends and unfair discrimination begins. Times, Sunday Times
I don't want to be thought insensitive, but I do think we should go ahead despite the accident.
I fumed at the noisy, smelly, insensitive machismo of it.
I accused him of being thoughtless and insensitive to my needs.
Now that pain is touted as the ‘fifth vital sign,’ (an unmeasurable vital sign, I might add) doctors are reluctant to seem insensitive, even though there may be plenty of signs that all is not on the up and up with the patient.
It helpfully adds that it is "culturally insensitive" to offer a half-bottle of wine on the table d'hôte menu. VisitBritain tells Londoners how to welcome visitors to 2012 Olympics
The simulation results prove that the principle is insensitive to fault type, fault time, transition resistance and fault location.
The results included muddled avant-garde theatrical staging techniques and insensitive and maladroit portraits of African Americans.
All in all men are often insensitive and behave in an uncivilized manner.
O'Connor certainly came across as a quite insensitive clod.
The simple task of baking a cake defeats Laura, her domesticity challenged by a friend's insensitive remark that ‘anyone can bake a cake’.
He shared with a growing number of his compatriots an anxiety about the insensitive damage being inflicted on large parts of France. The Government and Politics of France
His comments have been seen by some victims as crass and insensitive. The Sun
The optimal index here exhibits a striking universality in that it is relatively insensitive to variations in the selection used in its computation.
I found myself reading again passages that reminded me of just how unaware and insensitive I am to health concerns in developing countries.
She was still angry with Luke - he had been thoughtless, and surprisingly insensitive.
Now, as for the Democrats, they've been able to use this issue quite effectively to portray the president as insensitive.
Well, if he is two-faced, self-centred, plausibly insincere, manipulative and insensitive… be concerned.
Those exercising political power were not insensitive to certain features of the new thought.
These insensitive areas, known as stigmata, played a very important rôle in the epidemic of witchcraft hunting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the witch was so diagnosed if she felt no pain when a needle was thrust into her. The Foundations of Personality
Workers will have to think twice before telling insensitive jokes or expressing intolerant views which may give offence.
Interestingly, while this method is supposed to be relatively insensitive to outliers, the results do change significantly if the data point from 1992 is removed from the series.
Whether a nuclear strike would deter an irrational leader insensitive to his people 's suffering is another matter. Times, Sunday Times
Many times tinny happiness can easily drown us, but we ate so insensitive to neglect them.
AHG procedures were often too insensitive or overly sensitive.
I agree, displaying it where it could easily be misinterpreted is insensitive. Matthew Yglesias » Politics and Investment Bias
Anyone who compares red light cameras to rape is plain insensitive, rude, a liar and dangerous. Think Progress » Tucker Carlson’s new website kicks off with jokes about rape, being gay.
We may need to reform our laxness and cease living with a conscience that condemns us, or even worse, grows insensitive. Remember the Sabbath to Keep It Holy* « Unknowing
They have been completely tactless and insensitive to anyone's feelings.
He was insensitive to her grief.
I feel my husband is very insensitive about my problem.
As it guides our intuitions in microphysics, the No Teleology Principle is not only independent of the thermodynamic asymmetry, but conflicts with the widely-accepted doctrine that the laws of microphysics are insensitive to the distinction between past and future. A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)
But he's clearly a man of principle and unbending honesty - who, at times, can be cruelly insensitive, as when he tells a man he has casually examined that he has a tumour.
He characterized the action as ‘brazen, arrogant, uncivilized, and insensitive.’
How should I raise these intolerable working conditions with my boss without appearing crass and insensitive? Times, Sunday Times
I don't consider an insensitive person who won't pick up after their dog an affront to my personal beliefs.
Like so many Scandinavian creatives of his epoch, he seems utterly insensitive to any of the colours or possibilities of the new century. Times, Sunday Times
Not that I am insensitive to Ms. Warner's plight.
An insensitive allocation policy could only frustrate their efforts.
‘Learn the value of any criticism, even harsh and insensitive criticism,’ Clark said.
But he's clearly a man of principle and unbending honesty - who, at times, can be cruelly insensitive, as when he tells a man he has casually examined that he has a tumour.
`Least said soonest mended," said Kitty, insensitive to her plight. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Glucose sensitive and glucose insensitive neurons of the lateral hypothalamic area have shown differential responsiveness to gustatory and olfactory stimuli.
Though it may have been somewhat culturally insensitive or politically incorrect to use the phrase, the expression won't qualify as a racist slur.
And it was perhaps insensitive to try to sell pet funerals to distressed purchasers. Times, Sunday Times
This insensitive viewpoint, aweless before the cosmic spectacle, arouses a train of events which brings its own awakening. Autobiography of a Yogi
That's more insensitive -- that's more insulting to me than me using a term 'brainwashed,'" he said. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
In contrast, petal wilting was either ethylene sensitive or insensitive, and this was also generally consistent within families or subfamilies.
Previous experience of PCMBS inhibiting a fraction of the normal unloading efflux suggests that this large, PCMBS-insensitive efflux is by a passive mechanism.
The appearance of elitism comes from a sense that the president's team "just doesn't get it," that they are insensitive to the plight of ordinary Americans. Michael Roth: We Need to Create Trust
He seems completely insensitive to criticism.
Oxygen utilization that was insensitive to KCN and sensitive to SHAM was indicative of the presence of the alternative pathway.
There is no reason to believe that federal judges will be insensitive to or uncomprehending of the issues involved in domestic security cases.
The extreme positions might work well for Monticello or the Pompidou Center, but the communities where we have workedare filled with nuances that are not always detected by an overly sensitive contextualism or an insensitive authenticity. Frank Gruber: A Fourth Urbanism, Part 4: More on the "Why" of Cityism
Our clumsy attempts at diagnosis are harmful to the people concerned, damaging to organisational productivity and insensitive to those who really do live with afflictions like Asperger's Syndrome.
Some even find the knock on the door offensive and insensitive and Ill be honest, I felt badly for bothering those folks.
According to the Save the Manatee Club, the human danger to manatees comes in two primary variants: the negligent motorboater and the environmentally insensitive developer. Jurisdynamic Taxon: The Florida Manatee
Companies that are insensitive to global changes will lose sales.
Finally it is only at the level of the plasmalemma or the cytoskeleton itself, and assuming that sensitive and insensitive zones are serially connected that the stresses might be relevant.

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