Sentence examples for Lack of sensibility from inspiring English sources

What really characterises this sewer-rat lack of sensibility for me is the fact that almost nowhere is there an apparent oppressor.

The younger generation of writers may have been criticized by some veterans for the lack of sensibility in their work, but even they seemed to agree that some of the more recent films did not have a moral compass.

Chasing, crashing modern cars, no longer funny but ugly killing machines, unlike the funny, flimsy, almost butterfly-like, light-as-air "tin lizzies" of the silent days, showed a lack of sensibility that … oh, forget it.

While it would be wrong to infer from this any lack of sensibility, he was certainly a product of the repertory movement rather than of university, and in this he was unlike most of the other directors of the time.

It is the lack of sensibility.

In Theonoston, happiness is said to coincide with a kind of inner composure understood not in terms of lack of sensibility (indolentia), but as a condition of mental vigour stemming from the contemplation of the true nature of things.

He offers an anecdote that shows her lack of artistic sensibility and literal-mindedness.

This lack of political sensibility meant that an essay Bowra wrote at the request of an initially admiring Theodor Adorno, exiled in Oxford in 1936, struck the German philosopher as naive and journalistic.

This will be a poem about a lack of something: sensibility, which Merriam-Webster defines as "ability to receive sensations" and, metaphorically, "refined or excessive sensitiveness in emotion and taste".

Together with the lack of clinical sensibility testing of the questionnaire, this limits the validity of the results [ 27].

"And I bet the people in Nassau would be willing to say, 'We've got too much debt, but this is debt that's worth something.' " One leading member of the Nassau County Democratic Party said that while Mr. Bent's nonpolitician status may appeal to some voters, his lack of political sensibilities could end up putting people off.