irreflective

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“Far behind Scott in the power of instinctive, irreflective, spontaneous creation of character, Stevenson tells his story with more art and with a firmer grip on his reader.”

From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

Now, my life is rounded; it began with the natural irreflective happiness of childhood, it will close in the reasoned tranquillity of the mature mind. 

From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by Gissing, George

In these fields we shall not find that we are dealing with the spasmodic and irreflective heroisms which illuminate a barbarous age.

From Medieval Europe by Davis, H. W. C. (Henry William Carless)

In answering these questions the pragmatists are more analytic and painstaking, the intellectualists more offhand and irreflective.

From Pragmatism by James, William

There is a strange humour about the subtle gradations by which girlhood passes out of all this free, genial, irreflective life into the self-consciousness, the reserve, the artificiality of womanhood.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard