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They are largely meaningless and irreflective.

Yet the irreflective nature of these scenes also contains the seeds of the novel’s main defect: While the young men objectify and fail to understand Laura, the novel sometimes exhibits the same tendency.

Irreflective, ir-re-flekt′iv, adj. not reflective.—n.

The rose of active good nature, irreducible, incurable, or in other words all irreflective, that is the variety which the individualistic tradition happens, up and down these islands, to wear upon its ample breast—even it may be with considerable effect of monotony.

But there is a drawback, and a serious one, as a result of the fact that this life itself of thought does not now, never will in the future, come before us as that irreflective life which it is claimed to be: it comes to us as a philosophy which recommends it and advocates it as the only possible life of thought.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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