irreflective
Example Sentences
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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
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
Yet in this, as in many other instant and happy decisions, we may not see the mere casting of a die, the chance result of an irreflective impulse.
From The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
And from this day I was an altered creature, never again relapsing into the careless, irreflective mind of childhood.
From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas
But this he can bear, because his noble mind recognises its own greatness; he regards his jeering brethren in the same light as the philosophic writer beholds 'the vapid and irreflective reader.'
From Some Private Views by Payn, James
