irreflective
Example Sentences
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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 Pater, Walter
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)
It cannot be denied that the transition from atrocious prosecutions to divine honors was somewhat sudden, but this is merely a further proof that Caligula was endowed with a violent, impulsive, and irreflective temperament.
From The Women of the Caesars by Ferrero, Guglielmo
In answering these questions the pragmatists are more analytic and painstaking, the intellectualists more offhand and irreflective.
From Pragmatism by James, William
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)
