Adjective : a sweeping, unreflective pessimism. From Dictionary.com.
The now universal popular culture with its tabloid mentality and cult of celebrity leads to short-term unreflective hedonism as the 'ideal lifestyle choice'. From Wordnik.com. [From The Archive: O, for a draught of vintage] Reference
I've had enough unreflective idiots in the Oval office. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Subtly Shifting Assessment Of Hillary's Pre-War Position?] Reference
O Dev, unreflective Dev, you are the one who is the mystery. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
A boy and girl gave me one quick look with black unreflective eyes. From Wordnik.com. [10 1/2] Reference
I doubt that it was totally unconscious, the work of unreflective genius. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Minutes, That's It] Reference
People close to Lott say he is unreflective and prefers motion to substance. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Out Of Time] Reference
"You'll owe me," Kirk repeated, looking hard into Nogura's dark, unreflective eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Recovery]
One is that its treatment of categorization works best for quick and unreflective judgments. From Wordnik.com. [Concepts] Reference
The display lies for effect; in reality Acton is dark and unreflective, no more luminous than she is. From Wordnik.com. [Starfish] Reference
But this would appear to be another unreflective application of the unpersuasive inference noted above. From Wordnik.com. [Abstract Objects] Reference
Also, fighting games tend to focus on action, and action -- even brutal action -- is an unreflective act. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak Fallout 3 Dazzles With Great Depression] Reference
We must fly -- come! 'and the speaker advanced with unreflective haste to the side of the palpitating girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
The present structure of the Security Council was anachronistic and unreflective of current power realities. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Again, though she's certainly a smart cookie, she also seems to suffer from utter unreflective cluelessness. From Wordnik.com. [Madge, Madge, Madge, Madge, Madge] Reference
Well, I think the record bears out that unreflective guts are way, way less reliable than careful reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Morality is Objective (And People Are Wrong)] Reference
At that moment, I felt as if I were being given a window into her heart, the unreflective heart of her youth. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams From My Father]
Only the unreflective can regard the utilitarian as having a monopoly of the difficulties which face the moralist. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
But unreflective though she may be, she's given us an eyewitness account of the folks who made the decade go round. From Wordnik.com. [A New Spin On The Stones] Reference
A candidate with too many disfluencies sounds unprepared; a candidate with too few can sound rote and unreflective. From Wordnik.com. [Talk Is Cheap in Politics,] Reference
He defended the use of power to confront Communism - but not the kind of unfettered, unreflective power advocated by some. From Wordnik.com. [Eliot Spitzer: The Need for Both Passion and Humility in Politics] Reference
What instinct guided the frail, unreflective creatures across miles of ocean to the Islands of the Blest among butterflies. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
Because there was a front-page news story today that had a headline that was totally unreflective of what the secretary said. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2001] Reference
He realizes how unreflective he has been, and he has suddenly realized how badly people are being served by our institutions. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Krotz: Burying Ben Franklin] Reference
An unreflective sort, Arnett, 59, doesn't like to argue such issues; he sticks to the facts and leaves the analysis to others. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Do Danger For Fun] Reference
Each time, opponents claimed that the new commissioners would be mostly old white men, unreflective of California's diversity. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Drawing the Winning Lines] Reference
Einstein showed what dangerous traps we could fall into by stepping into new domains with old concepts in an unreflective way. From Wordnik.com. [Operationalism] Reference
It may be thought strange by the unreflective that these rural spectators should so have approved and blessed the marriage of a. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
What the Anglo-American "quality press" wants from us is testimony, an unreflective, straightforward chronicle of our troubles. From Wordnik.com. [A Cup of Coffee] Reference
So even if they disagree about the ethical details, they share a similarly anti-skeptical, unreflective authoritarian epistemology. From Wordnik.com. [Taoism] Reference
Just “going with your unreflective gut intuitions” on a particular issue, un-tested and un-consistentized with other intuitions?. From Wordnik.com. [Morality is Objective (And People Are Wrong)] Reference
Glad for his chilled and tired body and glad, in a moment of pure unreflective selfishness, that it was not he who huddled hungry in a wash. From Wordnik.com. [Firestorm]
A few moments later, when someone wrote in asking when, I glanced at a calendar and in a burst of unreflective enthusiasm offered September 13. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Reich: The Guns of August: How the Republican Right Fired on Health Care] Reference
Thus ‘normal science’ itself becomes ‘post-normal’, and is thereby liberated from the fetters of its traditional unreflective, dogmatic style. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Normal Science] Reference
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