When liberals look at red-state voters, they see either a mob of pious know-nothings or the insensible victims of militarism and class warfare.

NEWYORKER: Coming Apart

Insensible to the violent attacks intended to eject him, Mohsen takes advantage of the agitation, slips through the gaps it opens in the throng, and gains a spot near the front.

NPR: 'The Swallows of Kabul' Book Excerpt

Yet as things stand, our impotence in the face of our extinction means that a vast amount of medical resources are expended in the last few weeks of people's lives purely in order to render our deaths insensible and insensate.

BBC: A Point of View: The biggest decision

Exasperated, he starts hitting out again, wielding his many-thonged whip in an effort to part the flood of humanity, futilely harrying a group of old men as insensible to his blows as they are to the sobs of a little girl lost in the crowd.

NPR: 'The Swallows of Kabul' Book Excerpt