insensible

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I call this process catastrophic gradualism: the small, almost insensible accumulation of evils, fairly minor in their individual character, but which when considered whole, inspire a pervasive feeling of dread.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2025

Lying insensible in the hospital, Hwang imagines a big, brash, classic American-style musical, replete with high-kicking chorus lines and bright harmonies.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 21, 2019

A week later, the telegraph lines clattered with news of Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theatre in Washington and the chilling way it was put into words by Stanton: “The president continues insensible and is sinking.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2016

One sensible reaction to living in an insensible world is to create a world of your own, and that’s exactly what we heard on many of the year’s best recordings.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2015

Taciturn, silent, insensible to the new breath of vitality that was shaking the house, Colonel Aureliano Buendía could understand only that the secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez