irreflective

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But this he can bear, because his noble mind recognises its own greatness; he regards his jeering brethren in the same light as the philosophic writer beholds 'the vapid and irreflective reader.'

From Some Private Views by Payn, James

We produced it," said Mr. Gladstone, "with a general, lazy, uninformed, and irreflective good intention of taking capital to Ireland.

From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Godkin, Edwin Lawrence

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 James, Henry

Save by accident, out-of-school experience is left in its crude and comparatively irreflective state.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John

In these fields we shall not find that we are dealing with the spasmodic and irreflective heroisms which illuminate a barbarous age.

From Medieval Europe by Davis, H. W. C. (Henry William Carless)