It was a wilful, insensate desire; but there it was.

Again there came over him, as once before, the insensate desire to strike that gray, puttyish face with all his might.

He stared at her angrily, moved by an insensate desire to seize her and throw her down the hill like a bundle of rubbish.

The prowlers, too, seemed to have got over their insensate desire to burn, and it was more rarely that we saw houses freshly on fire.