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1. It’s lame and he has an instinctive feeling that he should be sitting up and taking more notice, but his moral insensibility is ingrained
2. darkness, all beings lie in a state of insensibility
3. tise yog have woken up from the slumber of insensibility and begun to
4. lying in a state of insensibility in the dark night of ignorance
5. ? Will insensibility to
6. ? Will insensibility to the woes of the
7. ? Wil insensibility to the woes of the
8. Will insensibility to the woes of the wretched ever become a virtue? Will that which is a vice in
9. ? Will insensibility to the woes of the wretched ever become a virtue? Will that which is a vice in this life, become a grace in the glorious future life?" From a web page by "Ron" which is no longer on the net
10. So far as it wins compulsory assent, through the pressure of the external evidence of Christianity, supposed to support it, or in consequence of that internal evidence, of which no perversion can wholly deprive the gospel of Christ, it causes in young and meditative spirits an internal agony of doubt and despair such as is seldom forgotten, even after years of mature insensibility and decorous conformity
11. But he remembered, too, moments, hours, perhaps whole days, of complete apathy, which came upon him as a reaction from his previous terror and might be compared with the abnormal insensibility, sometimes seen in the dying
12. Laurence, told the hard story bravely through, and then broke down, crying so dismally over her own insensibility that the kind old gentleman, though sorely disappointed, did not utter a reproach
13. "All these mishaps have befallen thee, hardhearted knight, for the sin of thy insensibility and obstinacy; and God grant thy squire Sancho may forget to whip himself, so that that dearly beloved Dulcinea of thine may never be released from her
14. private street, and hurried, in a state of insensibility, into a coach, which brought me hither, and I only recovered my senses to be treated like one who had lost
15. being brought into it; but then this insensibility kept me so much the
16. "I understand the nature of your alarms, madame," said the count, carefully examining the child, "but I assure you there is not the slightest occasion for uneasiness; your little charge has not received the least injury; his insensibility is merely the effects of terror, and will soon pass
17. The grating against the library-door aroused the young girl from the stupor in which she was plunged, and which almost amounted to insensibility
18. I do not suppose that, when a drunkard reasons with himself upon his vice, he is once out of five hundred times affected by the dangers that he runs through his brutish, physical insensibility; neither had I, long as I had considered my position, made enough allowance for the complete moral insensibility and insensate readiness to evil, which were the leading characters of Edward Hyde
19. The lady, against whom naturally the strongest suspicion rested, was removed to her room, still in a state of insensibility
20. Her look of indifference was matched now by an insensibility in her voice that didn’t fit well with the words she chose
21. What fools men were when they said liquor made people forget! Unless she drank herself into insensibility, she’d still see Frank’s face as it had looked the last time he begged her not to drive alone, timid, reproachful, apologetic
22. experience would soon give way to sharp pain, even as severed tissues, shocked by the There was a merciful dullness in her mind now, a dullness that she knew from long surgeon’s knife, have a brief instant of insensibility before their agony begins
23. Lydgate was too hasty in attributing insensibility to her; after her own fashion, she was sensitive enough, and took lasting impressions
24. Rosamond had the double purchase over him of insensibility to the point of justice in his reproach, and of sensibility to the undeniable hardships now present in her married life
25. and he would relapse into a more fixed insensibility
26. “Sir Thomas, who had done so much for her and her brothers, and who was gone perhaps never to return! that she should see him go without a tear! it was a shameful insensibility
27. His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment
28. "You have, undoubtedly; and there are situations in which very high spirits would denote insensibility
29. A horrible doubt came into my mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, or who would venture to set him free
30. Some have such a vast appetite for the former commodity, that is, the news, and such sound digestive organs, that they can sit forever in public avenues without stirring, and let it simmer and whisper through them like the Etesian winds, or as if inhaling ether, it only producing numbness and insensibility to pain—otherwise it would often be painful to bear—without affecting the consciousness
31. "In the first chapter of the 'Recollections of the House of the Dead,' something was said about a parricide, of noble birth, who was put forward as an instance of the insensibility with which the convicts speak of the crimes they have committed
32. Like a bold hypnotizer, he tests the degree of insensibility of the hypnotized subject
33. I have a little experience in resuscitating the half-drowned, but in this case insensibility seemed to have been caused by the blow on her forehead, if it was not from shock or fear
34. But it was merely a change from one state of insensibility to another; for, though a colour came back into the cheeks and the breathing grew stronger and more regular, the warmth of the cabin had its effect, and she sank into a natural and peaceful sleep
35. I do not mean to insinuate that those gentlemen do wrong in espousing the cause of the oppressed, to whatever quarter they may belong; but I state the fact to show that their sympathies may possibly have magnified the evil—and to infer from it, that the opposition of those most immediately interested is to be ascribed, not to their insensibility, but to their apprehensions that this war, instead of securing seamen's rights, will banish their seamen into foreign service