We may be battered practically into insentience, and we may simultaneously be hurting beyond what anyone could imagine. |
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How has personal insentience changed in our society during the past two centuries? |
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It may lack some of the epistolary poetry of, say, Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, and the style is plain almost to the point of insentience. |
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He was not downcast for he could propel himself in a bath chair, yet he was a blank of insentience. |
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Either everything was sentient along with me, or we were all sharing a vital insentience. |
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But here too the central argument is the inseparable intersubsumption of the two opposite terms: sentience is always insentience-sentience, insentience is always sentience-insentience. |
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He began to wonder if his gift might have been a curse: the ancient mariner has 'strange power of speech', but yearns to be relieved of it, restored to insentience and silence. |
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