Meanings of insentient in English

Sometimes it was through malice, but more often through sheer insentient imbecility.

Chauvelin gave a curt acquiescence, nodding his head like some insentient wooden automaton.

His familiar, loud, rambling voice made her shut herself up and become even insentient.

Theodore's stertorous breathing assured me that he was still insentient.

But they were little more to Stella than the insentient boulders that strewed the beach.

But the little tree stood within her arms insentient, quivering only to the long rumbles.

Now he is outside as insentient as a fleeing animal after it has been attacked.

She went round to where poor old Lucienne still sat, like an insentient log, panic-stricken.

She was now like an insentient log, without power, or thought, or will-almostwithout feeling.

They'd be better being as insentient as cows.

Their legs have become idle, almost insentient twigs.

If our legends are true, the Precursors were already spacefarers when we octospiders were still totally insentient.

Sensation cannot be produced in insentient matter.

She was no longer a pariah, an outcast, a poor, half-demented creature, insentient save for an infinite capacity for suffering.

An uneasiness was abroad with the wind, an uneasiness that infected the men, the dogs, the forest creatures, the very insentient trees themselves.

We are destined to a harmonious life in his unifying love, but not to be fused and lost as insentient parts of his total consciousness.