The puppet, though insentient in nature, can bring life and animation to any interested audience. From LearnThat.org.
insentient (or insensate) stone. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Sugar, being insentient, cannot give its own taste. From Wordnik.com. [Ramana Maharshi on Sri Aurobindo] Reference
It's only a foetus, after all - an 'insentient blob' (© J. Hari 2004). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-01-02] Reference
Now he is outside as insentient as a fleeing animal after it has been attacked. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
He asked his readers to consider an originally inanimate and insentient human being. From Wordnik.com. [Ãtienne Bonnot de Condillac] Reference
Another option is to install Switcher insentient.net and activate the mouse shortcut. From Wordnik.com. [Activate Alt-Tab Switching With Just Your Mouse | Lifehacker Australia] Reference
His familiar, loud, rambling voice made her shut herself up and become even insentient. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
Tyler Cowen weighs in, analyzing NRO as an entomologist might a helpless, insentient bug. From Wordnik.com. [NRO is 90 Degrees Off, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
His feet might have been made of leather all the way through, tramping with an insentient tread. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
With continuing advances in medical technology, the prospect of being kept alive-perhaps insentient-by machinery is real and frightening. From Wordnik.com. [Last Rights] Reference
Sensation cannot be produced in insentient matter. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work] Reference
Their legs have become idle, almost insentient twigs. From Wordnik.com. [Fantasia of the Unconscious] Reference
It was like the jaws of a pair of insentient iron pincers. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
Stella than the insentient boulders that strewed the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Big Timber A Story of the Northwest] Reference
At one end -- call it the lower vertical -- is pure insentient matter. From Wordnik.com. [One Cʘsmos] Reference
The boat floats on at the whim of the warm wind and the insentient stream. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe, Volume I] Reference
In determining a boundary between sentient and insentient life, Peter Singer in. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
He knelt, compassion gentling his heart, and put one hand to the insentient face. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Bag] Reference
Instead of being assertive and rather insentient, he becomes wavering and sensitive. From Wordnik.com. [Fantasia of the Unconscious] Reference
Sometimes it was through malice, but more often through sheer insentient imbecility. From Wordnik.com. [Youth and Egolatry] Reference
On his feet, straddling Mulready's insentient body, he confronted Calendar and Stryker. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Bag] Reference
The kernel, the man himself -- seemed so tender -- the covering so stiff and insentient. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
But the little tree stood within her arms insentient, quivering only to the long rumbles. From Wordnik.com. [Saint's Progress] Reference
Chauvelin gave a curt acquiescence, nodding his head like some insentient wooden automaton. From Wordnik.com. [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference
She went round to where poor old Lucienne still sat, like an insentient log, panic-stricken. From Wordnik.com. [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference
She was now like an insentient log, without power, or thought, or will -- almost without feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference
"My dear Lobkowitz, 'he' is an insentient force of nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Skrayling Tree]
The insentient masquerader on the floor had called himself "good-enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Lone Wolf A Melodrama] Reference
An insentient, unformed prayer. From Wordnik.com. [The Pull of the Moon]
An icy stab through his insentient body. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
It's an 'insentient blob' (© J. Hari 2004). From Wordnik.com. [It's not a baby, you fool !] Reference
They'd be better being as insentient as cows. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
Dream leaves my heart insentient as the clod. From Wordnik.com. [Ad Matrem Amantissimam et Carissimam Filii in Aeternum Fidelitas] Reference
And better than the insentient heart and brain. From Wordnik.com. [The Unknown Eros] Reference
Imperceptible. or spent. insentient adj. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
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