It was as if a strong wind blew through him, sweeping him toward insentience.

The sound seemed to reduce the trees to baleful insentience; they withdrew their threatening as a host of spiders began to drop lightly onto Covenant's still form.

Brentano described intentionality as a characteristic of sentience, a "mental phenomena", by which it could be set apart from insentience, or natural "physical phenomena" (physische Phänomene).

The Firmness Factor The Senate hearings on campaign-finance irregularities, conducted since July by Sen. Fred Thompson's Governmental Affairs Committee, have eased finally into insentience.