irreflective

Example Sentences

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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

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 Gissing, George

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

“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)

The Passage in No. 7 of the Apology where he describes the State of the World as wholly irreflective of its Creator unless you turn—to Popery—is very grand.

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by Wright, William Aldis