How To Use Unreflective In A Sentence
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So, Philosophy tells Boethius, since you accepted them unreflectively when fortune was treating you well, it really makes no sense that you should start asking questions now.
In the Valley of the Shadow
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Now various unreflective numbskulls seem to think that there is a contradiction between consuming American culture and being critical of the U.S. government.
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This is just another stupid decision by several foolish officials taken in a small room, totally unreflective of the people's will, " said a comment on Mop, a current affairs forum.
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And with us painters also, the only result of any efforts we make to acquaint ourselves with the subjects of metaphysical inquiry has been an increased sense of the prudence of lying placidly and unreflectively in our pools, or at least limiting ourselves to such gentle efforts of imagination as may be consistent with the as yet imperfectly developed powers, I do not say even of cephalopodic, but of Ascidian nervous centers.
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
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It seemed to his unreflective mind that things had actually improved in the last month.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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The idea that men are and ought to be unreflective, grunting, two-fisted louts good with their hands but not so much with their hearts and their heads is a class thing not a gender thing and it is imposed upon working class men by a system that needs them to be beasts of burden.
Male values don't include patience?
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The immediate need seems to be that of a reform of the reformed Missal of 1969, for, quite a number of changes originating within the Post-Conciliar reform seem to have been introduced somewhat hastily and unreflectively, as Cardinal Antonelli himself repeatedly stated.
Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
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Weber wrote that a large part of human behavior fell into the traditional or habitual category which, as routinized and unreflective, implied that little or no choice was involved.
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Anecdote dominates many chapters, with unreflective reportage frequently doing duty for examination.
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His level, unreflective air, the pronouncement of acceptable, believed certainties.
THE LAST RAVEN
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It corrupts because it licenses individuals to unilaterally, unreflectively and thus arbitrarily impose their will on others.
Dr. Robert Aziz: Why Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely
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Christianity is unreflectively experienced as part of the village's identity, a resource defending Motu integrity against a threatening alien sociality.
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They more often become full-blown—but usually unacknowledged—metaphysical world views, especially in times of great social change when older belief systems are being unreflectively marginalized in the name of progress.
What Do Boys and Girls Draw? » Sociological Images
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But it would be wrong to blame everything on the scribes, those unreflective, unthinking mouthpieces of the status quo whose job it is to anaesthetize the public.
Archive 2007-10-01
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So writers who wanted to continue innovating in the superhero genre needed to find a way to move beyond simply taking their own tropes as their primary subject matter, without simply falling back into recycling them unreflectively.
One Superhero Comic, Hold the Superheroism
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But this pre-modern Gemeinschaft conception of an all-encompassing community that members unreflectively endorse seemed distinctly ill-suited for complex and conflict-ridden large-scale industrialized societies.
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His level, unreflective air, the pronouncement of acceptable, believed certainties.
THE LAST RAVEN
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It continues an old imperialism, unreflectively enjoying its discursive overlordship over South Asia by presenting India and Pakistan as "rivals," as if that is what a billion and a half people think of all the time.
Vamsee Juluri: How the West Lost Us: A Critique of Media Coverage of the Mumbai Attacks
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Is it possible that conservatives are actually the intellectuals, reading books and playing with ideas and thinking about issues, while liberals are, at least comparatively, the unreflective know-nothings?
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Among those critics, none has been more rancorously unreflective the former Health Secretary.
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It seemed to his unreflective mind that things had actually improved in the last month.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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As for the president himself, we're unlikely to get much: Bush has a poor memory and is too unreflective to have kept the kind of diary that would elucidate matters.
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Clearly, an unreflective or uncritical citizenry would be highly undesirable as well as, strictly speaking, a contradiction in terms.
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Barney's mythopoetic investment in the DJED installation is heightened by what for him is its somber materiality and coloring; its powdery, chipped and unreflective textures; the blackness and greyness of the ash, dirt, detritus and slag deposited around the room.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God
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They have a grownup son, Joe Oliver Maltman, who has evidently inherited his dad's breezy, sarky, unreflective sense of humour, and whose still-unmarried condition concerns the parents not one whit.
Another Year ? review
