Excessive sternness.
Synonyms
Examples for "insensibility"
Examples for "insensibility"
1
There is the same insensibility in his heart as in his manners.
2
The shock jarred his boiling brain into the perfect quietude of insensibility.
3
At last he was brought home in a state of drunken insensibility.
4
Fortunately Aunt Caroline took this proof of insensibility in a flattering light.
5
He had seized upon her by violence in a moment of insensibility.
1
They said callousness can never be the proper response to human tragedy.
2
It would indeed be an act of callousness to let it go.
3
I never heard of such damnable callousness in all my life before.
4
She looked at him in anger almost at what seemed a callousness.
5
Slidell's callousness curled the fingers of my free hand into a ball.
1
On my forefinger it has made a callosity.
2
Besides causing the animal considerable pain, chafing, if long continued, leads to the formation of a callosity.
3
A large callosity forms on the shoulders of the regular Unyamwesi porters, from the heavy weights laid on them.
4
When the best possible results succeed treatment, a large callosity is formed and movement of the pastern joint is restricted.
5
Their feet, by this kind of exercise, contract a callosity which renders the use of shoes quite unnecessary to them.
1
May God save his people from unfeelingness of heart!
2
Madame Fouchet herself, the woman, not the actress, was to blame, I think, for our unfeelingness.
3
It's ra'ally awful to witness to what a state of unfeelingness a people can be abandoned!
4
Nothing can better represent the sort of unfeelingness the whites have towards the Indians, than their conduct towards his remains.
5
A genuinely feeling soul has an insuperable repugnance alike for unfeelingness, for false feeling, and for false expressions of feeling.
Measure of how resistant solid matter is to various kinds of permanent shape change when a force is applied.
1
The stiffened hardness of the speaker in a measure affected the boy.
2
The first confused hardness with progress; the second confused softness with progress.
3
The Japanese struck an unexpected strain of hardness in the Korean character.
4
Some of these approach the chrysoberyl and topaz in hardness and hue.
5
None of the cynicism and hardness of Thackeray appear in her pages.
6
The simplicity of the words contrasts with the hardness of their meaning.
7
My heart was growing very hard; but the hardness has gone now.
8
Each degree of hardness indicates the destruction and waste of 12 lb.
9
It spoke of delight, not of hardness; of acquiescence, not of effort.
10
A certain skeptic hardness was in her gaze as he visioned it.
11
He felt the cool hardness of the polished stone beneath his fingers.
12
His blanket takes away the hardness of the stone that supports him.
13
The weight variation and surface roughness were not affected by the hardness.
14
Takes us down to two. The hardness in my tone real enough.
15
No human studies have examined hardness of diet in relation to obesity.
16
He had often noticed in her voice and look an alarming hardness.
