irreflective

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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 Wright, William Aldis

He obeys his instincts and indulges his appetites with the irreflective simplicity of an animal.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

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)

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 De Quincey, Thomas

“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 Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)