unreasoning

Example Sentences

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While those words are engraved in historical memory, the ones that immediately follow are just as important: Roosevelt singled out the "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2021

Not everyone agrees that today’s fears are unreasoning or unjustified.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2016

If it is simply a matter of introducing into the process some figure in whom the public has unreasoning trust, we might just as plausibly have the president’s targeting decisions reviewed by Oprah.

From Time • Feb. 19, 2013

The sub-heading read, "Batting is a dying art, mortally wounded by night games, big gloves, scientific defenses, unending lines of relief pitchers and the unreasoning stubbornness of the batters themselves."

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2012

But then the fatal unreasoning knowledge came to him again.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding