Their insensitiveness about it included insensitiveness about him.
But this insensitivenesswhich prevents their feeling any intense malice is, more than anything else, the especial evocation of the power of malice.
Malice seems to convey a more impersonal depth and a wider reach of activity than the word hate and has also a clearer suggestion of deliberate insensitiveness about it.
This distribution of the insensitiveness alone indicates that it is due, as I have suggested, to natural selection.
But insensitiveness to the child's needs is not confined to parochial schools and other church institutions where children are harbored and taught.
The fourth of Samuel Butler's characteristics was insensitiveness to what is generally called refinement or finer feeling.
Only her insensitiveness made his constant caress endurable.
It was like the unexpected tearing of calico, so sharply did such a demand break the vision and show his insensitiveness to her mood.
