insensible

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I would just add one corrective, it wasn't just enslaved Black women, it was that all Black people were insensible to pain.

From Salon

The novel positions him as insensible to agendas, hopelessly subject to the whims of the altruistic and the cruel.

From Washington Post

Yes, it’s fairly sentimental insofar as it dwells on how feelings color the world, but it’s not insensible to the gaps that feelings alone can’t fill.

From Washington Post

But while she might detect the mote in others’ eyes, she is insensible to the beam in her own.

From Los Angeles Times

Butkus’s image was a metaphor for what pro football players had become over 50 years: preternatural creatures, cold, insensible to hurt.

From Washington Post