irreflective
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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 A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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
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 George Gissing
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 John Richard Greene
The Passage in No. 7 of the Apology where he describes the State of the World as wholly irreflective of its Creator unless you turn—to Popery—is very grand.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by William Aldis Wright
