Sentence examples for Not sentient from inspiring English sources

Or indeed if the hosts of Westworld are actually robots and not sentient beings, only made of silicon.

Michael Gazzaniga, a member of Mr Bush's advisory panel on bioethics, says the cloned clump of cells "has no nervous system and is not sentient in any way.

"Sentient or not sentient, intelligent or not, the life of the planet is green...The life on the Earth is possible just because plants exist," said Mancuso.

"Children are astute observers of tone – they loathe adults who patronise them with a passion, adults who somehow assume they are not sentient beings because they are children," she said.

In the animal rights view, any one of those goats have at least as much right to life as the last Wrightson sparrow on earth, and the trees, because they are not sentient, warrant no moral consideration whatsoever.

When you are absorbed in surfing them, they seem alive, each with a distinct, intricate personality and quickly changing moods, to which you must react in the most intuitive, almost intimate way — too many surfers have likened riding waves to making love — and yet waves are not alive, not sentient, and the lover you reach to embrace can turn murderous without warning.

And nothing rankles those commenters more than the kids who weren't sentient when Thatcher was in power but have an opinion about her.

For those of you who weren't sentient in 1987, here's the gist: Brawley was a 15-year-old girl from Upstate New York who claimed to have been abducted and raped by a group of white men, including a cop.

There isn't a sentient person not on his payroll who'd say otherwise.

According to Ms. McLane, poets "make the chaos of inner feeling not only sentient but shareable".

But it is not just sentient life that is betrayed by its throbbing.