unreasoning
Example Sentences
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While those words are engraved in historical memory, the ones that immediately follow are just as important: Roosevelt singled out the "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2021
I’m most interested in the bright line that Pinker draws between the empirical spirit of science and the unreasoning obscurantism he suggests otherwise prevails.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2018
Not everyone agrees that today’s fears are unreasoning or unjustified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2016
If it is simply a matter of introducing into the process some figure in whom the public has unreasoning trust, we might just as plausibly have the president’s targeting decisions reviewed by Oprah.
From Time ● Feb. 19, 2013
A sudden unreasoning fear of discovery laid hold of Frodo, and he thought of his Ring.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
