irreflective
Example Sentences
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There is a strange humour about the subtle gradations by which girlhood passes out of all this free, genial, irreflective life into the self-consciousness, the reserve, the artificiality of womanhood.
From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard
“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)
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 Gissing, George
And from this day I was an altered creature, never again relapsing into the careless, irreflective mind of childhood.
From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas
Later, when the journeys to Europe ceased, he still had shown his children all sorts of indulgence, and if he had been troubled about money-matters nothing ever disturbed their irreflective consciousness of many possessions.
From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by James, Henry
