Adjective : an insensitive person. ,insensitive skin. ,insensitive to light. ,insensitive to the needs of the peasants. From Dictionary.com.
He has the insensitiveness of a child of thirteen. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
It reflects the insensitiveness and fanaticism of the House of Saud. From Wordnik.com. [Tuesday, October 31, 2006] Reference
"Mademoiselle Sophie" gained none of her courage from insensitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Particularly the social insensitiveness of the present government has increased disparities and raised tension. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
There is Vargas State, as a monument to the laziness, the incapacity and the insensitiveness of the national government. From Wordnik.com. [09/11/2005 - 09/18/2005] Reference
But this is not because of any insensitiveness, but because of equal and antagonistic reactions which neutralise each other. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
The “death house” in this particular prison was one of those crass erections and maintenances of human insensitiveness and stupidity principally for which no one primarily was really responsible. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
On September 11, Serbia's war crimes prosecutor announced indictments against the group for murders and other crimes in Cuska that showed "extreme cruelty, brutality, insensitiveness and ruthlessness.". From Wordnik.com. [Fred Abrahams: Small Fish, Big Fish in Serbia] Reference
And besides her insensitiveness to slights, she was hopelessly obtuse when it came to observing the invisible but cast-iron barriers with which the various cliques hedged themselves round, to keep those a step lower in the scale from coming too near. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
Obstinacy may be mere animal inertia and insensitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference
Their insensitiveness about it included insensitiveness about him. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life] Reference
This insensitiveness is easily communicated to the curious visitor. From Wordnik.com. [American Sketches 1908] Reference
Oh, not the hardness of insensitiveness, but the hardness of strength. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining: Messages of Hope and Cheer] Reference
There are limits, even to Helen's insensitiveness, I should have imagined. '. From Wordnik.com. [Franklin Kane] Reference
Japan, is technically known as "a nightingale squeak," perhaps supports my insensitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Roving East and Roving West] Reference
I say nothing about the indirect tortures which our sloth and insensitiveness still permit. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day] Reference
Pictorially, the general aspect of New York is such that the mind speedily takes refuge in insensitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [New York After Paris] Reference
Dullness and insensitiveness in the eyes of those Grecian farmer-lads, no doubt, occupied entirely with keeping the oxen in line. From Wordnik.com. [The Brimming Cup] Reference
But this insensitiveness which prevents their feeling any intense malice is, more than anything else, the especial evocation of the power of malice. From Wordnik.com. [The Complex Vision] Reference
If this is not the case, they at least show their insensitiveness to the civilian deaths of the other side, in their efforts of suppressing the other side. From Wordnik.com. [Kottu] Reference
Already he felt the new mastery of Judenbach, the hard insensitiveness of it -- the stone and iron of its nature, the ineffable cruelty of its meaning and morale. From Wordnik.com. [Red Fleece] Reference
Malice seems to convey a more impersonal depth and a wider reach of activity than the word hate and has also a clearer suggestion of deliberate insensitiveness about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Complex Vision] Reference
We mistake -- the most affectionate of us -- in attributing to our sons 'sensibilities the robustness or wiry insensitiveness that belongs to their physical conformation. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)] Reference
Sectoral divisions of Dharavi proposed in the Dharavi Redevelopment Plan that would segregate land uses are evidence of the insensitiveness of the top-down approach to planning. From Wordnik.com. [Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network] Reference
When the insensitiveness of fatigue is avoided by a slow continuous change in the position of the illuminated spot, no such wandering of the eye from its original point of regard occurs, and the spot does not float. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
The Reverend Noel Wells was accustomed to think of himself as, if not exactly a coward, at least lacking in that species of virility and insensitiveness which compels human beings to run foolish, unnecessary risks merely for the sake of fame or fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Death at the Opera]
Arusha - The umbrella association of genocide survivors (IBUKA) has said that western world has duty to help in tracking down fugitives of 1994 Rwandan genocide, decrying slow justice system or showing insensitiveness to the crimes committed by the suspects. From Wordnik.com. [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference
It is just here that the mystery of pain and pleasure helps us to understand the mystery of love and malice, the same insensitiveness in certain souls that prevents their feeling any vivid pain or any vivid pleasure, also prevents their feeling any intense malice. From Wordnik.com. [The Complex Vision] Reference
What with our insensitiveness and inattention, things scarcely would have for us features and outlines so determined and clear that we could recall them at will, but for the stereotyped shapes art has lent them. ". From Wordnik.com. [Public Opinion] Reference
He could not get over his insensitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
The insensitiveness of women!. From Wordnik.com. [Balloons] Reference
The insensitiveness of the cuticle. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
Ah, the insensitiveness of that firm tread!. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
The insensitiveness about Adela displeased him. From Wordnik.com. [A Passage To India]
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