irreflective
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“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
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
Save by accident, out-of-school experience is left in its crude and comparatively irreflective state.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey
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
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
