irreflective
Example Sentences
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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
At such moments he had an irreflective courage, which prompted him to utter what he thought without regard to anything but the common civilities of life.
From The Crown of Life by George Gissing
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
“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
Later, when the journeys to Europe ceased, he still had shown his children all sorts of indulgence, and if he had been troubled about money-matters nothing ever disturbed their irreflective consciousness of many possessions.
From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James
