(a.) Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.
(a.) Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tottenham MP David Lammy said the community "had the heart ripped out of it" by "mindless, mindless people", many of whom had come from outside Tottenham.
(2) When people get together sometimes they forget their individual responsibility and maybe when you go home and watch it on television you are less proud.” Coates agreed with Wenger that it is best to turn a deaf ear to those mindless enough to sing that sort of song.
(3) From that day video games – the youngest and therefore the most misunderstood and feared entertainment medium – have struggled to shrug off the perception that they are violent, often mindless, occasionally sexist and fundamentally unconstructive.
(4) "Not one person has given any positive to his tenure of management, just kept mindlessly claiming he needs time.
(5) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
(6) The increasingly frequent murder of Nato trainers by the Afghans they are supposed to mentor has done as much to eradicate trust in the relationship between the Kabul government and its western backers as the sight of US marines videoed while urinating on the corpses of insurgents, or the mindless decision to burn Qur'ans at a US military base.
(7) To speak metaphorically, we can opt for either brainless or mindless psychiatry, as Szasz proposed.
(8) The architect of the RBCT called the new cull "mindless".
(9) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
(10) Last week you were saying the violence was understandable given the offensive film and this week you are trying to claim it was mindless," he wrote.
(11) This article describes a detailed model of how such "mindless" processes might lead to intelligent choices of strategies in one common situation: that in which people need to choose between stating a retrieved answer and using a backup strategy.
(12) The critics have raved about Amour : to some it is a "beautifully calculated demise" or "old age that refuses to be swept under the carpet and mindlessly 'othered' "; to others it shows "Haneke's flair for the emotionally brutal" and is an "overlong unblinking meditation on life's last act".
(13) It was hypothesized that as overlearning leads to "mindlessness," the individual components of a task become relatively inaccessible to consciousness and therefore unavailable to serve as evidence of task competence.
(14) We are about to take this country backwards in droves through the mindless ideological bent of the Coalition .
(15) And on this we must agree: there is no speech that justifies mindless violence," he said.
(16) As a letter in the Guardian from the Labour MP Peter Hain two days later put it: "Wednesday night's events were not mindless thuggery but organised political violence.
(17) Alex Song’s mindless red card near the end of the first half certainly made their task an easier one, but Croatia put the setback of their opening defeat to Brazil behind them with clinical ease.
(18) Thus to see Timothy Spall in Mr Turner mindlessly attacking a badly painted oil sketch was a painful experience for those that love and study art, spoiling for me what otherwise was a beautifully shot and constructed film.
(19) "We are not on a mindless hunt for unique users," said Bailey.
(20) Hollywood blockbusters and TV dramas are saturated with mindless terrorists.
Sensible
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; ////// heat; sensible resistance.
(a.) Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible.
(a.) Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.
(a.) Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.
(a.) Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.
(a.) Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.
(n.) Sensation; sensibility.
(n.) That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.
(n.) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
(2) Quantitative esophageal sensibility, therefore is concluded to be particularly suited to evaluation by electric stimulation.
(3) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(4) "Do I think it would be sensible for Liberal Democrats to bail out of a five-year plan at the very hardest point after a year?
(5) For tactile modalities, a lesion of the spinothalamic complex causes minimal or no defects and a lesion of the posterior columns causes only slight defects, whereas a lesion of both pathways gives rise to total loss of tactile and pressure sensibility in the part of the body served by both pathways.
(6) These include persisting HSVI of only the distal sensible or vegetative neurones and recurrence of infection with further destruction of ganglia-cells.
(7) Finally, any sensible person must be aware that Labour will find it impossible to govern if it attempts to ignore the national demand for a referendum.
(8) Simply lengthening the working age bracket is a potential disaster, unless the inequalities at the heart of the policy are addressed in a detailed and sensible way and we achieve full employment.
(9) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
(10) "If there is some kind of contrived scheme or vehicle, ie it's obvious that the purpose of the scheme is to avoid paying VAT and it's taking advantage of a loophole and we consider that tax is actually owed on the scheme, rather than just being a case of sensible tax planning … we can make the judgment that this is not legitimate tax planning.
(11) And he failed to engage with these sensible proposals to limit bonuses to a maximum of a year's salary or double that if explicitly backed by shareholders - proposals which even his own MEPs have backed – until the very last minute.
(12) Two sets of equations have been proposed to estimate the convective or sensible (WCV) and the evaporative or insensible (WEV) respiratory heat exchanges.
(13) You cannot hold up a picture of someone being electronically spied on; even worse, you cannot illustrate the psychic damage and cowed sensibilities that come with the fear of being spied on.
(14) I'm concerned, because it opens the door to all sorts of people with opinions that aren't sensible.
(15) More prosaically, but sensibly, the publishing division, which includes all of the company's newspaper titles, will retain the News Corp name when the company's separation occurs in July.
(16) Although there are some circumstances in which it is sensible to privatise, there are many good reasons why wholesale privatisation should be shunned .
(17) I would suggest that the effect on living standards which is so reasonably desired, and which might be expected to reduce the number of small-for-dates babies, is more likely to be accomplished by a sensible sterilization campaign rather than the potentially damaging short-term solution of termination of pregnancy in young women.
(18) Multiple immediate tendon transfers and primary nerve grafting provided for finger flexion and extension plus functional sensibility in this first reported case of an elective cross-hand microvascular transfer.
(19) Within a year, protective sensibility was restored in the replanted hand, but intrinsic muscles were paralysed.
(20) Len McCluskey, the general secretary of the Unite union, told Sky’s Murnaghan programme that it would be sensible for Corbyn to let MPs vote freely.