How To Use Unthinking In A Sentence
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Elected officials, he lectured, should not speak unthinkingly, but rather, when doubts exist, keep silent.
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The idea grew from a remark made unthinkingly by chairman.
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Unthinking obedience to a line of bullshit because your pecker is so small you have to make up for it in other ways.
Think Progress » EXCLUSIVE: Majority Leader Boehner’s Confidential Strategy Memo For Thursday’s Iraq Debate
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Perhaps it was Thick, doing his tasks in his methodical, unthinking way.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Note that progressives here are unthinkingly using the standard Republican framing of taxation issues -- a bicycle fee would "penalize" the "worthy" among us -- as well as fulminating in faux populist us vs. them terms.
BlueOregon
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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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But they ignored the unthinking acceptance that Jeffries enjoyed among a far wider circle of students.
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Even automatic, unthinking actions are to a degree socially-conditioned, as Pavlov and Skinner have demonstrated.
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As an aphorist, Cullen is hard to beat and his supple and punning use of text puts the lie to the whole unthinking bad boy concept.
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And if we've become unthinkingly certain of these unpleasantries, we can be doubly certain that the combination of the two is unthinkably unpleasant, right?
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And looking down on the unthinking city, the Cathedral kept watch alone, beseeching pardon for the inappetency for suffering, for the inertia of faith that her sons displayed, uplifting her towers to the sky like two arms, while the spires mimicked the shape of joined hands, the ten fingers all meeting and upright one against another, in the position which the image-makers of old gave to the dead saints and warriors they carved upon tombs.
The Cathedral
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And, in the face of such unfeeling, unthinking idiocy, how can old Britons remain hopeful?
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It makes you an unthinking automaton, who will rapidly be shunned by society for your heartless or underwhelming response to everything.
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They shirked responsibility, put the blame on others, finding refuge in generalities and then in an unthinking bustle of activity.
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He never bludgeons or scalps or scarifies; but serenely indicates, with the calm gesture of a superior authority, the defects and blots which mar perfection, but which the unthinking multitude ignores, or, at worst, admires.
Matthew Arnold
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These unthinking and careless actions by the Premier did no more than to incite and inflame thus creating more danger for those police officers.
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Casual callousness, unthinking cruelty and sheer insensitivity remain key subjects.
Times, Sunday Times
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He doesn't say those silly things that unthinking people say.
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Perhaps I have dozed a bit, for I must have turned the coin, unthinking, and now I see the reverse: a horseman, in full panoply, galloping, with naked sword brandished in his left hand, from which depends a severed head tight-clutched by long, flowing hair.
The Lion's Brood
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Their objections are, in the true sense of the word, unthinking.
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Pearls of wisdom leave our mouths every day in an unthinking and mechanical manner.
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I hope this ends any disturbing talk I've seen about the blogosphere about Andy being the unthinking woman's bit of crumpet.
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Sometimes science requires stirrers to shift the dead weight of unthinking complacency.
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The bier in teahouse is decorated completely according to Mohammedan custom, of every bier all around surround have the crib, lest people is above unthinking, sit step.
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Daphne blurts the childlike word automatically, unthinking, and she rushes forward.
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The idea grew from a remark made unthinkingly by chairman.
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And the drops falling from this sudden and unthinking fountain of joy fell here and there on the dark, the slumbrous shapes in her mind; shapes of
To the Lighthouse
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He doesn't say those silly things that unthinking people say.
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Rather than risk reward calculations and unthinking optimism, what we need now is courage.
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Many motor accidents are the result of unthinkingly mixing speed and alcohol.
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When it comes to blind and unthinking prejudice masquerading as nationalism you can always rely on the lunar right to see eye to eye with the loopy left.
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Communal disharmony, not spiritual harmony, might seem more desirable to secure the unthinking loyalty of the faithful.
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However, the manufacturers have a valid point in that we are quite happy to unthinkingly travel in fly-by-wire aircraft.
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He adapts with unthinking haste, an instinct that serves him well in front of goal.
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Too many idiotic middle/senior-managers in schools are thoughtlessly/unthinkingly implementing government policy or coming up with hare-brained theories on learning styles etc that have been roundly derided by academics.
"Bash the teachers" - The Tories new policy
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What annoys me about these people is their unthinking hostility to anything foreign or unfamiliar.
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Fortunately, these unthinking Singaporeans were the minority, nonetheless, their attitudes have brought shame to the nation.
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Whether you agree with him or not, his motives for acting are clearly not unthinking loyalty to the US or sycophancy to a superpower.
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Reading on, she could picture the scene -- the two old men toiling with pathetic earnestness over the task of preparing that letter; here and there, the words only partially deleted by lines run across them, were evidences that in his flustration under the master's vitriolic complaints, old Dick had confused comment with dictated matter -- and had included comment in his unthinking haste to get everything down.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
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There are no agencies over here to help unthinking people get their unwisely spent money back.
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He thinks it's just a failure to speak in fathomable language, an unthinking capitulation to the professionalization of academic discourse.
Literary Study
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Moreover, the increasing academicization of the avant-garde has led to the same kinds of unthinking acceptance and moralizing certitude that once bolstered salon and pompier painting.
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He doesn't say those silly things that unthinking people say.
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Fourthly, there are those who protest out of some kind of violent instinct, who find pleasure in unthinking acts of fury.
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Conservatives were seen as mindless defenders of privilege, unthinking status quo-ists-in short, caricatured versions of Monty Python's Upper Class Twits.
The Times of India
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Hunter killed and ate with careless, unthinking ease, for his real quest was for little Alba, not for the nourishment his body needed.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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They all yearn to ride the love train in a blur of unthinking ecstasy through the portals of engagement, marriage and childbirth.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, if you stick to the notion of an unthinking substance or support of extension, motion, and other sensible qualities, then to me it is most evidently impossible there should be any such thing, since it is a plain repugnancy that those qualities should exist in or be supported by an unperceiving substance.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
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It would be better to say that the Boy Scouts prevailed with a good constitutional argument, supported by weak evidence, craven apprehensions and unthinking hostility.
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Numerous arrangements demand a review, as do certain unthinking habits.
Times, Sunday Times
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I will be grateful to her for ever, and my gratitude is only increased by the certainty that the withershins of anxious, unthinking PC will never know anything like it.
In the news in Pompeii
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I guess for the unthinking, any suggestion of strengthening the union bosses is good.
Republicans Criticize Solis’s Support for Union Bill - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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We experience the driver who unthinkingly cuts us off on the road as committing an aggressive act, the people in the security line at the airport who are moving too slowly as personally affronting us.
Michael Bader, D.M.H.: No, Virginia -- AT&T Just Seems Like the Great Satan
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Besides, the time has come for you seriously to consider your unthinking loyalty to certain individuals who take far more than they give.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chiefly, though, they talked with the Head, who was father-confessor and agent-general to them all; for what they shouted in their unthinking youth, they proved in their thoughtless manhood -- to wit, that the
Stalky & Co.
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There was of course, as already touched upon, disputation, for all these men were original thinkers, not likely to follow-my-leader meekly or mouth the unthinking slogans of conventional wisdom.
Guilds and the Faith: An Introduction to The Guild State
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These are the kind of men who do the bidding of their political masters, who unthinkingly repeat the nostrums of their own respective cultures.
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That's a problem because the point of McGruder's style of pop-cultural subversion is to get the revolutionary message into the minds of the unthinking, aliterate media consumer.
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An unexpected, unthinking move: none of his friends could account for it.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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We were supposed to become unthinking, obedient, silent and submissive so as to be governable, exploitable and harmless.
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By an act of unthinking folly I used them as an example yesterday.
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What annoys me about these people is their unthinking hostility to anything foreign or unfamiliar.
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The death penalty, say these amiables and futilitarians, creates blood-thirstiness in the unthinking masses and defeats its own ends - is itself a cause of murder, not a check.
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There would have been much to astonish a young Ligurian at that time, many opportunities for outrage, defensive bigotry or unthinking prejudice.
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For years, she'd entertained an unthinking prejudice against everyone who used them.
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Many motor accidents are the result of unthinkingly mixing speed and alcohol.
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We have still to absorb that second lesson as humanity rushes headlong into unthinking and reckless environmental destruction of our one and only planet.
Times, Sunday Times
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But they ignored the unthinking acceptance that Jeffries enjoyed among a far wider circle of students.
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I forgave him for the many occasions on which he had unthinkingly made me feel mentally subnormal.
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They are against unthinking and uncontrolled globalisation.
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The only time Beth called her friend Anna Ban was when she was desperately repentant for the unthinking words of her quick tongue.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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The Volokh Conspiracy » Questioning:
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Progressivism has destroyed the classical education that made the West great, and has replaced it instead with unthinking anticapitalism and the myth of the noble savage.
Progressivism Has Destroyed Classical Education
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All he wanted was to sit alone and perform the menial, unthinking actions necessary to remain breathing.
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‘We're not all unthinking stereotypes just because we've got older,’ she points out.
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He is unthinking and yet self-critical.
The Times Literary Supplement
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None of the foregoing is to suggest that I expect you to behave like an unthinking, insensitive automaton in responding to my request for your help.
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This was his home, and Alexander had been foolish and unthinking to forbid him access to it.
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What they are about is unthinking mass movement versus individual thoughts and actions.
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Many motor accidents are the result of unthinkingly mixing speed and alcohol.
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These imply a sudden, unthinking outburst of violence, so that by making reference to them no further elaboration seems necessary.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was quite mechanical and unthinking in the way she ironed the shirts.
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Numerous arrangements demand a review, as do certain unthinking habits.
Times, Sunday Times
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In short, he has that fuller, subtler, and more universal kind of shapeliness which the unthinking (gazing at pigs and distinguished journalists) mistake for a mere absence of shape.
Catholic and Enjoying It!
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The press-agents and orators popularized the war with the unthinking and the hesitant, which is proof enough to me that we lack national unity and a definite national policy.
The Pride of Palomar
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Useful idiots" was the term supposedly coined by V.I. Lenin to describe similarly unthinking supporters of his dictatorship in the Soviet Union.
Atlas Shrugs
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However the follow up messages show that the audio specialist has failed to properly moderate the contents of messages going onto the list, unthinkingly forwarding everything it receives.
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Pearls of wisdom leave our mouths every day in an unthinking and mechanical manner.
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She was quite mechanical and unthinking in the way she ironed the shirts.
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Casual callousness, unthinking cruelty and sheer insensitivity remain key subjects.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now, for an idea to exist in an unperceiving thing is a manifest contradiction, for to have an idea is all one as to perceive; that therefore wherein colour, figure, and the like qualities exist must perceive them; hence it is clear there can be no unthinking substance or substratum of those ideas.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
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The casual, unthinking cruelty of children is brilliantly evoked here.
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The only time Beth called her friend Anna Ban was when she was desperately repentant for the unthinking words of her quick tongue.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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It is in relation to the threefold parental authorities that we can best understand Min's metamorphosis from a child-adult to a confused adolescent and then, unfortunately, to an unthinking adult-child.
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If my dad taught me anything, it's this: An honest guy grabs his sleeve cuffs haphazardly and crumples them unthinkingly as he rolls.
Peter Mandel: Time for Mitt Romney to Roll Up His Sleeves -- Wait, Not Like That!
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It may serve, as it often has, to rouse the indolent from the gratification of complexional sloth, and recall the unthinking and irregular from the haunts of dissipation and vice to the blessings of serious reflection.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
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She couldn't fathom why he hadn't understood; she thought he'd been obtuse, unthinking.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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Every Western intervention is automatic and unthinking, it seems, except a human rights intervention.
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Maybe governments can no longer rely upon unthinking deference to doctors that has hitherto ensured compliance in national heath crises.
Times, Sunday Times
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Besides, the time has come for you seriously to consider your unthinking loyalty to certain individuals who take far more than they give.
Times, Sunday Times
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It looked like I had made a hasty and unthinking attempt to hide the fact.
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Unthinking or uncandid persons, counting those cases alone which are extreme, or which attain publicity, may say that the evils are exceptional; but no one can be blind to their existence, nor, in many cases, to their intensity.
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Your unthinking hatred of all things public and your disconnect with history and reality, doom you to the status of a mindless animal.
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'God has afflicted her,' so this simple-minded native, whom many men in their unthinking moments would call a canting, naked kanaka, says; but God has
Susâni 1901
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We moderns tend to unthinkingly equate the quest for verisimilitude with the quest for historical accuracy, yet here it clearly is intended to serve the heart, and not the head.
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Thought it'd be too easy otherwise, even with this poncho I unthinkingly brought along.
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Enjoyment became an imperative, expense was no object and she embraced unthinking pleasure with an enthusiasm that bordered on the frenetic.
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When that day comes I doubt you'll be anything but praiseful of such a ‘courageous judge,’ the forward-thinking philosopher king foisting his or her advanced notions of justice on the unthinking, retrograde masses.
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It sounded unnatural, manufactured, and I could tell she never laughed so easily, so unthinkingly.
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Thirty and more years later, those underlying attitudes persist as unthinking sympathies and antipathies far below the level of articulate rationality.
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Unthinking courage in the matter of victuals is rather a relief from the strained and anxious hygienic watchfulness of the overcivilized and the overrich.
Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View
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He has said that he modeled the impersonal and unstoppable Daleks after the Nazis, seeing them as embodying "the unhearing, unthinking, blanked-out face of authority that will destroy you because it wants to destroy you."
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The minivan's entire image problem is quite the opposite: that some people - a lot of people - see it as signifying that you're an unthinking conformist.