insensibility

• “But this _insensibility_, this heartlessness, gives very much the effect of a positive and real ill nature, and M. Bergson had thus simply repeated and expressed in a new way, more precise and correct, the opinion of Aristotle: the cause of laughter is malice mitigated by insensibility or the absence of sympathy.”

  Introduction to the Science of Sociology

• “Commend me to what you call the insensibility of the”

  Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag

• “He has reproached me for what he terms my insensibility to his perfections, and says”

  Turns of Fortune And Other Tales

• “For to be without grief having health, that they call insensibility, and not pleasure.”

  The Second Book. Of their journeying or travelling abroad, with divers other matters cunningly reasoned, and wittily discussed

• “Thank heaven! we meet with few minds like that of Sir Charles Verville; such a degree of savage insensibility is unnatural.”

  The History of Emily Montague

• “They were strangers to that grace of wisdom which is liberally given to all who ask it; and their insensibility was all the more inexcusable that so many miracles had been performed which might have led to a certain conviction of the presence and the power of God with them.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “There is a strange and peculiar sensation experienced in recovering from a state of insensibility, which is almost indescribable: a sort of dreamy, confused consciousness; a half-waking, half-sleeping condition, accompanied with a feeling of weariness, which, however, is by no means disagreeable.”

  The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean

• “I am very solicitous, both by study and argument, to enlarge this privilege of insensibility, which is in me naturally raised to a pretty degree, so that consequently I espouse and am very much moved with very few things.”

  The Essays of Montaigne — Complete

• “Moral insensibility, which is decidedly more congenital than contracted, is either total or partial, and is displayed in criminals who inflict personal injuries, as much as in others, with a variety of symptoms which I have recorded elsewhere, and which are eventually reduced to these conditions of the moral sense in a large number of criminals -- a lack of repugnance to the idea and execution of the offence, previous to its commission, and the absence of remorse after committing it.”

  Criminal Sociology

• “Churchill’s incisive, compelling monologues tended to disregard the feelings and opinions of his audience and created the aura of gross insensibility which is a determined flaw in a democratic statesman who must not only expand ideas but impel others to accept them.”

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