insensible

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But the Cylinder Sling by Building Block flirts with such attitude without becoming rude or insensible.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2024

"The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, passed in 1958, requires all animals be 'rendered insensible to pain' before being shackled or killed — all animals except for poultry," she notes.

From Salon • May 10, 2023

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 • Jun. 18, 2021

Gadot’s Wonder Woman doesn’t fight for rights because she transcends that fight; she is unfettered by it and insensible to it, an implausible post-feminist hero.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 2, 2017

Lying in his hammock, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was insensible to the pleas for clemency.

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