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Word of the Day for Sunday, July 20, 2008insensate \in-SEN-sayt; -sit\, adjective: 1. Lacking sensation or awareness; inanimate. The religion of primeval humans, he suggested, held that souls inhabited not only human beings but also animals, trees, plants--even rocks, rivers, and other natural features we regard as insensate. The cutting room is a cruel place, where writing that may have cost blood to commit to paper is kneaded and pummelled like so much insensate clay. Europe needs security and, having experienced the insensate forces loosed by this war, wonders if security is a mirage. But then, without warning, the conflict degenerated, and the insensate killing began. You'd have to be insensate not to know that the ad is designed to undermine Wellstone's popularity in this year's Senate race. Insensate comes from Late Latin insensatus, from in-, "not" + sensatus, "gifted with sense, intelligent," from Latin sensus, "sense." | |||||||||
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