irreflective
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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
At such moments he had an irreflective courage, which prompted him to utter what he thought without regard to anything but the common civilities of life.
From The Crown of Life by George Gissing
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
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
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
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