The phrase "are somewhat insensitive to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a lack of sensitivity or awareness regarding a particular issue or topic.
Example: "The comments made during the meeting were somewhat insensitive to the struggles faced by the affected community."
Alternatives: "are lacking sensitivity towards" or "are not very considerate of".
We demonstrate that our results are somewhat insensitive to the choice of stellar models (blackbody, Kurucz, or PHOENIX) and metallicity, but are strongly affected by higher carbon-to-oxygen ratios.
Conversely, Kir6.2/SUR2A KATP channels are somewhat insensitive to diazoxide, and they are predominantly expressed in the cardiac and skeletal muscle [ 171, 174].
The series having two methylene groups in the chain spacer (4a k), showing a small variation in affinity, revealed to be somewhat insensitive to ring substitution.
In that case, experts believe, even an earth that turns out to be somewhat insensitive to carbon dioxide will undergo drastic changes.
Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) were used to study the crystallization and orientation of the fibers, revealing that the degree of crystallinity was somewhat insensitive to compaction conditions while the melting point increased substantially with increasing compaction temperature.
In acquiescing to the preferences of Friend #1, Friend #2 has also been somewhat insensitive to your feelings---particularly, given your long history.
Two non-parametric statistics are shown to be somewhat insensitive to misalignment errors, providing increased confidence in contact prediction when analyzing alignments with erroneous regions because of an emphasis on they emphasize pairwise covariation over group covariation.
The results showed that mental distress was somewhat insensitive to gender.
These issues are largely obviated in optical mapping since the mapping substrate is just naked, fully deproteinized DNA molecules, and "distances" are robustly estimated by measurement of integrated fluorescence intensity [ 53, 63] using a dye (YOYO-1), whose measured fluorescence intensity is somewhat insensitive to base composition or extent of DNA elongation.
Indeed as we have already suggested, clinical or randomised trials can be somewhat insensitive to the nuances of service delivery in health where clinical significance is of far greater importance than statistical significance where the outcomes are patient related and change is demonstrable; no matter how small or large and predominantly based on the clinicians knowledge of the patient [ 18].
1989) (finding that a book depicting the plaintiff in an unflattering manner was not defamatory, even if it could "reasonably be inferred [from the book] that [the plaintiff] was somewhat insensitive, unsympathetic, or callous" because "such [inferences] do not suffice for defamation under Mississippi law").
