How To Use Insensitivity In A Sentence

  • I could not even defend myself, because the charge of racism and racial insensitivity is ultimately unanswerable.
  • Making the comments showed a great deal of insensitivity to your fellow countrymen, and a lack of foresight of the repercussions of such statements.
  • Literal interpretation, and insensitivity to context, are not marks of rationality but mental disorders.
  • Casual callousness, unthinking cruelty and sheer insensitivity remain key subjects. Times, Sunday Times
  • Golf chiefs were accused of crass insensitivity last night when they waved play on after the death of a caddie. Times, Sunday Times
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  • We can identify with Marjatta's chagrin at his insensitivity, but, hey, he didn't invent it, and he's trying, and it's sad that Marjatta can never love him as she loved Emil, even though Isak tries his darnedest. Ingrid Hill - An interview with author
  • The work of Henry Reynolds (and that of others less distinguished) has come under criticism for its universalist approach, bipolar categorisation, insensitivity to gender, and uncomplicated morality.
  • Unfortunately, if insulin levels are always high, then the sensitive insulin receptors on your body¹s cells eventually become unresponsive to insulin, resulting in a host of problems related to what is called ³insulin insensitivity². WN.com - Articles related to In memory of Mother: Eat your vegetables part four
  • In view of the sacrifice our troops have made on our behalf, this insensitivity to them and their families suggests a level of self-indulgence and ingratitude that shocks the conscience.
  • Whether intentional or not, the racial offensiveness and insensitivity of Summers' remarks and actions must be acknowledged, criticized, and vigorously resisted.
  • I also want to thank the editors of The Nation for their playfulness and/or insensitivity in allowing my perky pin-up to get into print.
  • Euro-American stereotypes about native people arise from prejudice and insensitivity.
  • For all the insensitivity of this mistake, it represents the abysmal lack of knowledge about the Baltics in the minds of many a Westerner.
  • A lack of awareness of cultural differences or insensitivity to local customs can create problems.
  • Best concludes, "If humans have for so long failed to understand animal minds it is because their own stupidity, insensitivity, and deep speciesist bias have for so long blinded them. Marc Bekoff: Animal Minds and the Foible of Human Exceptionalism
  • Neo-cons, with their religionism, imperialism, intolerance, insensitivity, glorification of Big Business, and hatred of civil liberties and our Constitution, give real conservatives a bad name. Critics: 'Avatar' is anti-military & anti-religion
  • But I suspect most pro-life people would willingly swap the lives of the babies for the insensitivity: feel free to excoriate us but don't sign the executive order at all. Well, it's been a quiet week here at The Inn. . . .
  • In spite of his brutish insensitivity, Zampano nevertheless cares for her a little.
  • It also betrays an insensitivity to history and a lack of basic human respect and civility. Christianity Today
  • Crippled by the repetitive cycle of silly pre-taped bits, filler and judge commentary, sufferers begin to lose their ability to focus on any real on-screen artistry, gradually developing an insensitivity to sad singer stories also known as SSS, an entirely separate disorder plaguing every talent show on Earth. Watercooler: American Idle
  • Domestic policies have been rooted in insensitivity to the vast numbers of normal American households and in rampant greed. Clergy Leadership Network
  • The chance remark that revealed his deep-rooted chauvinism and basic male insensitivity.
  • ‘People relate to the theme of a journey from ignorance to knowledge, from fear to courage, from insensitivity to caring, from paralysis to powerfulness, from victimization to accountability,’ the book points out.
  • Its triticale progeny indicated that in the act of fertilization it had created dwarfs, introduced partial photoperiodic insensitivity, and completely overcome the sterility barrier, which had inhibited progress in triticale improvement for decades. 2 History
  • There is only one possible logic behind the claims of insensitivity, behind Fox News 'John Gibson's hysterical clucking about a "War on Christmas" and Bill O'Reilly's gangsterish calls for shoppers to avoid department stores that don't explicitly refer to Christmas in their holiday promotions. Stephen Elliott: George's Christian Right
  • His insensitivity towards the feelings of others is remarkable.
  • The failure of the talks was mainly due to insensitivity and mistiming.
  • A media firestorm ensued, with critics accusing the newspaper of sensationalism, poor journalistic judgment, and insensitivity to the victim's family.
  • After the furore over the schoolgirl rape victim, he risks having a controversial but respectable viewpoint mistaken for insensitivity.
  • This shows the insensitivity of single dose comparisons as a method of estimating relative potency.
  • Funny how one man's crass insensitivity is another's cheeky humour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Golf chiefs were accused of crass insensitivity last night when they waved play on after the death of a caddie. Times, Sunday Times
  • As he read the novel, its nihilism and careless insensitivity to Nazi anti-Semitism were shocking, even abominable.
  • I also want to thank the editors of The Nation for their playfulness and/or insensitivity in allowing my perky pin-up to get into print.
  • The racial offensiveness and insensitivity of his remarks and actions must be acknowledged, criticized, and vigorously resisted.
  • Dianne Wiest balances ditziness with feeling and insensitivity as Becca's upbeat mother, who worries about Becca's condition but, seemingly, only as it affects her. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Rabbit Hole
  • Other conditions are less concrete: among those patients with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome, androgen biosynthetic defects and incomplete gonadal dysgenesis, approximately 25% go on to suffer dissatisfaction with their assigned gender. It's Easier to make a Hole than a Pole
  • A child who repeatedly sees violence or insensitivity towards himself, other human beings or animals becomes desensitized himself.
  • Lagos - The increases in the fares paid by passengers on the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) have continued to generate controversy, with many commuters lamenting what they termed insensitivity on the part of the operators. AllAfrica News: Latest
  • The Weekly Standard and Martin Peretz of The New Republic of "psychopathic derangement" over what he characterizes as their insensitivity toward civilian deaths. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • Through our bad parenting, which sets wrong examples, we have institutionalized insensitivity and indecency and made them virtues.
  • Too often what one has regarded as necessary plain speaking, the other has seen has offensive insensitivity.
  • As he read the novel, its nihilism and careless insensitivity to Nazi anti-Semitism were shocking, even abominable.
  • Mr Roth was immediately outraged at what he regarded as gross insensitivity and an attempt to create a false symmetry between the two deaths.
  • Never mind, rather like buses, if you miss one chance to comment on the tabloids insensitivity, self-aggrandisement, condescension and general loathsomeness there bound to be another chance coming along shortly.
  • Funny how one man's crass insensitivity is another's cheeky humour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Casual callousness, unthinking cruelty and sheer insensitivity remain key subjects. Times, Sunday Times
  • He never ceased to surprise her with his insensitivity.
  • Tom freely acknowledged this just as Terry acknowledged his earlier insensitivity.
  • States of ‘altered consciousness’, hypnosis, autohypnosis, euphoria, and psychosomatic conditions such as hysteria, may be accompanied by insensitivity to pain.
  • Their insensitivity is matched only by their overriding self-belief.
  • Incensed by his insensitivity and spurred onward by the events earlier in the evening, Lucy's eyes smoldered with resentment.
  • The officers have shown insensitivity towards the prisoners, who all share a common faith.
  • Our challenge is to be cautious not to take on a tone of self-righteousness and insensitivity to those whose policies we critique.
  • This insensitivity must include disregarding the garbage that is thrown anywhere and everywhere on many a city street.
  • Jewish suffering in occupied France was further relativized by two contradictory attitudes: an insensitivity, born of hostility, to the murder of Jews; and a generous universalistic desire not to singularize Jews as victims but to see them primarily as human casualties of German terror and Vichy perfidy in France. Annette Wieviorka.
  • The insensitivity to dim stimuli is accompanied by a mild nyctalopia.
  • It is difficult to criticize nuclear winter publicly without giving an appearance of moral insensitivity. Infinite in All Directions
  • I just do not understand how you can defen Obama against so called racial insensitivity from dumpsters when it was Biden being chumped. "I don’t know whether it was an attempt to diminish what I had done in '88, or to say Barack is all style and no substance."
  • The warning that I try to remember, every day, is to resist the advance of the impotency, of the insensitivity, of the desperation, of the nihilism. Flowers in the Desert
  • This player could not get away with such insensitivity, nor should his team.
  • Could we ever break free from these shackles of social insensitivity and ignorance?
  • The impact of deals on reference price was nearly linear: there was no insensitivity to small deals.
  • Francis Pangilinan yesterday bewailed what he called the insensitivity of the Arroyo administration for talking about the 2010 WN.com - Articles related to Gloria leaving for Switzerland
  • For instance, the apparent lack of sensitivity of GLRs to amino acids could reflect the orientation of the proteins within the heterologous host membrane, rather than insensitivity to ligands.
  • I am staggered by the insensitivity of this anonymous writer in raising this issue in a public forum where it was read by Tara's parents.
  • The teachers had gone on strike on March 12, 2009 over what they termed the insensitivity of the state government to the plight of primary school teachers and other unresolved issues. AllAfrica News: Latest
  • However, it is the ability to tolerate excessive Al, Mn and Fe that largely determines the flora of acid soils, and an insensitivity to Fe- and P-deficiencies that determines the flora of calcareous soils.
  • Incensed by his insensitivity and spurred onward by the events earlier in the evening, Lucy's eyes smoldered with resentment.
  • In view of the sacrifice our troops have made on our behalf, this insensitivity to them and their families suggests a level of self-indulgence and ingratitude that shocks the conscience.
  • ‘I think we need ‘Insensitivity Training’ to equip people to get through life without freaking out every time somebody opens their mouth and says something slightly infelicitous.’
  • We were the victims, and others acted with outrageous insensitivity to us.
  • It is not unreasonable to say that, for a visitor in Hinton's position, it took considerable insensitivity if not self-willed complicity not to be aware of what happened in those years.

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