What's the difference between emotionless and insensitive?

Emotionless


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Much like San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich, Leonard seemed absolutely emotionless during his post-game press conference in Miami on Tuesday night.
  • (2) Something in the soul of this nation dies – has died – because of the emotionless way we brush off these killings.
  • (3) Hollywood paints them as powerful and emotionless predators – a small few who have embraced their inner dark passengers.
  • (4) Bragg, admittedly, was a particularly unobtrusive figure – his silence emanating from a emotionless Blackberry, as the singer songwriter is on tour in Scotland.
  • (5) The steadiness of the camera movements mixed with the grisly subject matter into a mood of unease, especially when juxtaposed with the odd, often emotionless speech.
  • (6) It certainly runs counter to the narrative that he's some sort of emotionless cyborg following orders from on high."
  • (7) Coulson, Miskiw and Thurlbeck looked emotionless during their sentencing and the public gallery was silent.
  • (8) Women, men and children with personal stories to make even the most emotionless readers shudder; people who fled wars, who lost family members and friends, who were tortured by repressive regimes, and who are now stuck on Nauru, in anguish and despair about their future.
  • (9) It's more than that – for here is the proof of the emotionless, shallow nature of this solipsistic cameraphone craze that everyone was waiting for.
  • (10) Click here Ballard was not an emotionless man and he did not write emotionless fiction.
  • (11) Deb, who had been pretty emotionless up until now, looked like she might cry.
  • (12) They want me to be emotionless and inactive.” Refugee who set himself alight on Nauru dies in hospital Read more Omid was medivacced from Nauru almost 24 hours after he set his clothes on fire.
  • (13) We see the bearded priests mordantly intone of the 'vessel shattered, voiceless, emotionless', then the boy is distracted by the wind in the trees, just as Pip was, just as Rosy will be during her woodland tryst in Ryan's Daughter.
  • (14) "I said they should go to earn, we needed the money," she says, her voice emotionless.
  • (15) Pistorius appears emotionless during the reconstruction.
  • (16) Scientists often get played or portrayed as being very emotionless, so how do you draw that story of intense personal grief?

Insensitive


Definition:

  • (a.) Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast, DNA polymerase alpha, the enzyme involved in chromosomal DNA replication, was relatively insensitive to CA1.
  • (2) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
  • (3) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
  • (4) The mechanism by which K+ accumulates in the follicle was insensitive to ouabain, so that a typical Na+, K(+)-ATPase mechanism does not appear to be involved.
  • (5) All three organotins inhibited cardiac Na+,K(+)-ATPase, [3H]ouabain binding, K(+)-activated p-nitrophenyl phosphatase (K(+)-PNPPase) and oligomycin-sensitive (OS) and oligomycin-insensitive (OI) Mg(2+)-ATPase in a concentration-dependent manner.
  • (6) The most important causal factor, well illustrated by pressure studies, was the presence of a dynamic or static deformity leading to local areas of peak pressure on insensitive skin.
  • (7) However, blood with low HBeAg levels and free of detectable polymerase activity can still be infectious, since the polymerase reaction is rather insensitive compared to the radioimmunological HBeAg determination.
  • (8) For those synapses that were close to the soma the time constant for decay for the non-NMDA component, which was voltage insensitive, ranged from 4-8 ms. 7.
  • (9) A sharp decrease in oxygen uptake occurred in Neurospora crassa cells that were transferred from 30 degrees C to 45 degrees C, and the respiration that resumed later at 45 degrees C was cyanide-insensitive.
  • (10) The response amplitude is maximally sensitive to photons presented over durations of 30-45 min; is very insensitive to shorter light exposures; and is maintained with no evidence of adaptation over longer exposures.
  • (11) In contrast to the channel closing rate, the opening rate is relatively insensitive to voltage.
  • (12) By using pH- or Ca(2+)-sensitive dyes and recording at the ion-sensitive and -insensitive (isosbestic) wavelengths, the method can measure both cell volume changes and intracellular ionic activities.
  • (13) In patients with Cushing's disease or Nelson's syndrome ACTH secretion is insensitive to naloxone, presumably because of an autonomous pituitary adenoma or hypothalamic derangement.
  • (14) Compared to the controls, the vitamin E deprived animals were relatively insensitive to the effects of scopolamine.
  • (15) The chemical shifts of the C-2 proton of histidine 48 and of the C-4 proton of histidine 80, histidine residues that are close to one another and to another heterosaccharide side chain, show a similar insensitivity.
  • (16) Activity was insensitive to oxygen and CO if the substrates had no additional substituents on either ring or contained only electron-donating substituents.
  • (17) In some cases (approximately equal to 10%) the mechanism of androgen insensitivity could not be identified.
  • (18) We found the incorporated channels to be insensitive to calcium and octanol, and in most cases to pH in the range of 5-7, suggesting that either these agents do not interact directly with the junctional channels or that the corresponding gating regions are inactivated during the isolation and reconstitution procedures.
  • (19) The cattle filarial parasite Setaria digitata, a facultative anaerobe which is reported to be cyanide insensitive, lacks cytochromes and presents many unique characters.
  • (20) V0 estimates derived from the low load portion were positive and relatively insensitive to Ees.