irresponsive

Well it would be irresponsive of me to say there's a lesson for you in that!

"To ignore it, thinking the hate will just go away, is irresponsive."

Mute, close, irresponsive to any glancing light, his dress is like himself.

Facing this creative task, appeals of foreign parties to formal democracy remain naive, light-minded and irresponsive.

Sylvie murmured despairingly, to the irresponsive birds.

"You must forgive him," I concluded, and my own voice seemed to me muffled, lost in un irresponsive deaf immensity.

It was an unforgettable scene--the mate in the high place, the men, sullen and irresponsive, grouped beneath.

If citizens do not responsibly demonstrate against the operation of inhumane acts by their governments, the governments become increasingly irresponsive and corrupt.

If Byron possessed more than a superficial knowledge of the legendary "Don Juan," he was irresponsive and unimpressed.

What was it that these dear, loving, credulous ones said, when in the silence of the night they offered up their patient supplications to an irresponsive Heaven?

By way of answer to this tirade Mrs. Strudwarden stooped down again and kissed the irresponsive brown nose.

This came of no hostility to religion other than the worst hostility of all--that of a life irresponsive to its claims.

Lena stooped down and kissed the nose of the diminutive brown Pomeranian that lay, snug and irresponsive, beneath a shawl on her lap.

How had Hepzibah--grim, silent, and irresponsive to her overflow of cordial sentiment--contrived to win so much love?

I saw with dismay that if I hadn't known him I should have taken him, on the showing of his countenance, for an extravagant illustration of irresponsive servile gloom.

But the 3rd Department agents suspected in it political subversion, Gedeonov proved to be irresponsive to his pleas concerning financial support and again Ostrovsky was down in the dumps.

In addition to these goals, individuals differ in responses from the interactional environment, some may be irresponsive to audience's reactions while others actively respond to audience reactions in order to elicit positive results.

Let me show you by my work in the years to come, rather than by words, that I am in earnest about science, and that my spirit is not irresponsive to a noble encouragement such as you have given me.

The river, which had been closed so long, was open then, and Stein's little schooner, in which I had my passage, worked her way up in three tides without being exposed to a fusil- lade from "irresponsive parties."

However further experiments demonstrated that not all actions of OSM could be replicated by LIF, that is certain cells that are irresponsive to LIF would respond to OSM.

Even the adjective from which it is back-formed - irresponsive - is not part of our working vocabularies, as most of us prefer near synonyms like "sullen, close, tight-lipped" or choose phrases like "lack of response" or "failure to react."

She thought of him as always courteous and helpful, as realizing, indeed, his ideal of protection and service, as chivalrously leaving her free to live her own life, rejoicing with an infinite generosity in every detail of her irresponsive being.

How is it, or from what cause, that when the starlight shines on it, it glows from within--that when I fix the lamps in similar form the glow grows greater still; and yet the box is irresponsive to ordinary light however great?

On a pink Post-it note tab stuck into the chapter on "Thalamic Lesions and OCD" was: Errol: It says here cingulectomy is the treatment of choice for irresponsive [sic] OCD.

"It is unreasonable to suppose that the bright young men like those educated in the U.S. at the cost of the Chinese Government should content themselves with absorbing the principles of engineering, mathematics and other sciences, remaining, meanwhile, wholly irresponsive to the political and social influences by which they are surrounded.