irreflective
Example Sentences
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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 H. W. C. (Henry William Carless) Davis
Amid the irreflective actors in that rapidly moving show, so entirely immersed in it superficial as it is that they have no feeling of themselves, he becomes self-conscious.
From Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater
Was it a relief to that irreflective nature to believe the die irrevocably cast, and the responsibility of decision over?
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Charlotte Mary Yonge
“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 Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
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
