We're becoming desensitized.

But we quickly become desensitized, requiring ever more outrageous scenarios to move us.

Poverty has exacerbated the trauma of Iraq s violent history of wars and atrocities, which has desensitized people to killing.

Researchers from Stanley Milgram to Phillip Zimbardo have shown that atrocities can be committed more easily when ordinary subjects (that is, not sociopaths) become desensitized in various ways.

When we mourn the loss of a fellow Palestinian brother and other desensitized Palestinians are watching on the streets, smirking and making ridiculous comments, I will feel fury.

But nowadays even dice sized apartments can be packaged for the luxury market, as people have become desensitized to the absurdity and have resigned themselves to even more cramped living spaces at unaffordable prices.

So our Pancreas is producing insulin and putting it into our bloodstream, so it's there to be used. but a situation can arise where the receptors are not working properly, and they have been desensitized to insulin.