Sample sentences for INSENSATE

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lacking feeling and/or reason

or:

lacking consciousness

unable to stop the insensate violence

In vain I expressed my sorrow; in vain I lingered for some symptom of contrition; she really 'didn't care,' and I left her alone, and in darkness, wondering most of all at this last proof of insensate stubbornness.
Anne Bronte -- Agnes Grey
deaf to reason, and, for the most part, insensate to persuasion
Charlotte Bronte -- The Professor
it was the incarnation of blind and insensate Greed
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
Let him take care, or, brave as he is, we gods will turn against him, seeing him outrage the insensate earth!
Homer -- The Iliad
Theirs was the demented cruelty of egocentric children, and somehow this made their insensate beastliness much more heartbreaking.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
The discredited rulers of the world can oppose no reasonable ideal to the insensate Napoleonic ideal of glory and grandeur.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Seriously frostbitten, lying insensate in his tent, at least for the time being he was unable even to speak.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance!
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
They would sit silent, more bodeful of the direct antagonism of things than of their insensate and stolid obstructiveness.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and groveling submission to those you can't.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God
She was not an insensate piece of property, to be taken up or laid down at his convenience.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
"The executioner of Lille, the executioner of Lille!" cried Milady, a prey to insensate terror, and clinging with her hands to the wall to avoid falling.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
The gunslinger laughed deprecatingly, and the insensate walls made the sound into a loon-like wheeze.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
Ah! unhappy that we are—insensate!
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdured, And to rebellious fight rallied their Powers, Insensate, hope conceiving from despair.
John Milton -- Paradise Lost
Insensate folly and madness to entertain even a shadow of hope!
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
But where has the universe hidden a word under its outer layer of biology, geometry, or insensate rock?
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
It grew deadly serious and assumed dimensions of insensate cruelty that broke the bounds of the plebe system as we had known it until that time.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
She crawls to an edge inside herself, longs to be insensate, a slab of brick.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban

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