What was it that these dear, loving, credulous ones said, when in the silence of the night they offered up their patient supplications to an irresponsive Heaven?
Shrine, he raised his angry, impassioned eyes to the dark, inscrutable ones of the High Priestess, who met his troubled look with serene and irresponsive gravity .
In such isolation the heart must lose its keen sense of sympathy, and be irresponsive and dumb.
She grew almost hysterical under the spell of this irresponsive trouble.
Several of the speeches throughout the following evening were of a high order; but still there was no response--it was speaking from a rock to the noisy, unlistening, and irresponsive sea.
For the second time her clinging fingers closed round her stepmother's irresponsive hand.
Her eyes were fixed on the carpet, and her face was as irresponsive to the welcome offered as she could make it.
Mr. Gibson looked gravely at her, irresponsive to her winning looks, which at the moment reminded him too forcibly of her mother's ways.
To which the person of the house, stretching out her arm in an attitude of command, replied with irresponsive asperity: 'Go along with you!
He insisted on Father Miles going to the Countess about it; nay, he even ventured an appeal to her himself, though it always cost him great pain to attempt a conversation with this beloved but irresponsive woman.
The nun turned upon him a pair of cold, steel-blue eyes, as calm and irresponsive as if he had brought her no tidings whatever.
If she be worn and weary of excesses in the early days of her married life, the husband will have only himself to blame if he is bound all his life to an apathetic and irresponsive wife.
Mighty indeed must be the compassion, evocative of that intense yearning look in his usually guarded, irresponsive countenance.
Irresponsive to the grand beauty of the poem he felt only its undertone of heartache and woe.
And then he talked of other and to her more interesting topics, while a keen pang rankled in his breast to find her irresponsive to that which was so dear to him.
The condition of the pupils is so variable as to have no diagnostic value; but if both are widely dilated and irresponsive to light, the prognosis is grave.
Callous he himself may be to the thund'ring of the elements or the guns of his country's foemen; but never will he be found irresponsive to female distress in any shape or form.
It will excite no wonder that Mr. Sturge found the Major somewhat irresponsive to his own jubilant mood.
The irresponsive silence of the lands The irresponsive sounding of the sea Breathe but one language and one voice to me Aloof, aloof, we stand aloof!
The growth is persistent and usuallyirresponsive to treatment.
The condition is persistent, and usually irresponsiveto all treatment save destructive or operative measures.
The disease is persistent, and irresponsive to all treatment save operative measures.
It should always be guarded, the disease in almost all cases being irresponsive to treatment.
She looked me in the face with grave irresponsive eyes.
Science too has been something of an irresponsive mistress since, though I've served her better than I served Marion.
Its suggestion of "the irresponsiveblankness of the universe" was for him too naked and poignant.
Miss Nelson took Ermengarde's hand; it lay cold and irresponsive in her clasp.
She sighed once or twice as she glanced at the girl's irresponsive face.
The Englishman, though generally insensible of, or at any rate irresponsive to, the arts, is never irresponsive to a view.
She carried an impersonal attitude almost to the point of seeming irresponsive to common human things and interests.
They were now not twenty yards apart; in another moment he would have raised his hat, when, with a sensation of cold disappointment in him, she went past in totally irresponsive silence.
At birth the mice have a rosy pink skin which is devoid of hair and perfectly smooth; they are blind, deaf, and irresponsive to stimulation of the vibrissae on the nose.
He believes rather that they are strangely irresponsive to sounds and that their sensitiveness is dulled, possibly, by the presence of plugs of wax in the ears.
At which Charles simply took her cold, irresponsive hand in his own, with a silent pressure.
Irresponsive as it was, however, he reminded himself, she had made no effective protest against the gesture.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "irresponsive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
