irreflective
Example Sentences
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But how could we think it, if the only possible life was that one which we intend to think, and not the one with which we think this irreflective life?
From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile
And among these defects should be counted a great ambition, a kind of harum-scarum and tumultuous activity, an irreflective impetuosity of passion, and a dangerous lack of balance and judgment.
From The Women of the Caesars by Guglielmo Ferrero
His right figure was that of life in irreflective joy and at the highest thinkable level of prepared security and unconscious insolence.
From The Finer Grain by Henry James
He obeys his instincts and indulges his appetites with the irreflective simplicity of an animal.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
I address you as a true philosopher of nature, foreseeing the perpetual misery your irreflective character and total absence of moral discernment are preparing for' &c.
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
