"Mr. Groscost has become insensitive to issues of conflict of interest," Mr. Burke said.
Many said they were dismayed to see the religion gap after the 2004 election, with the Republicans' overwhelming strength among churchgoers and the widespread perception that Democrats were a secular party insensitive to issues of values.
"It was not our intent to be insensitive to issues of authenticity and ethnicity, and we will look to recast the part with an actor more consistent with the character in the source material," the statement said.
You can be pro-nuclear and concerned about safety issues and you can be pro-nuclear and insensitive to safety issues.
There is lingering concern that foreign management will be insensitive to social issues.
The selection of Mr. Thompson, an African-American, would serve as a signal that Mr. Ashcroft intends to respond to Democratic criticism that he is insensitive to racial issues.
Some charged that Silverman was being insensitive to racial issues, while she countered that it was in fact racism, not race, that she was mocking.
Democrats, including several presidential candidates, have portrayed him as insensitive to racial issues, and were quick to charge on Friday that the recess appointment, only three days before the Martin Luther King holiday, demonstrated Mr. Bush's own indifference to civil rights.
"We are not insensitive to these issues and our responsibilities," she said, adding that the family donated "A Child on Its Deathbed" (1645), by Bartholomeus van der Helst, to Museum Gouda in the Netherlands.
The folks going sans window coverings obviously are insensitive to these issues, or perhaps they're so hot from titillating the neighbors, they've taken leave of all senses.
"You have to understand that when you have a government that is so insensitive to the issues that are close to people's hearts, that have affected so many lives for the worse, people are going to be really angry and emotional," she told the Daily Telegraph before the Olympics in 2000.
