unreflecting
Americanadjective
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Your eyes … are cool-coloured, sort of air force blue-grey, and strangely unreflecting.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2015
Very few people take up one or the other of these extremes, although the latter comes closer to a common, natural, and unreflecting point of view.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2015
I have seen her, sometimes, when she thinks I’m not looking: her face goes still, remote, unreflecting.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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An ocean rolled between him and that passionate, headstrong woman whom he had loved with the unreflecting ardour of youth.
From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Boldrewood, Rolf
Again, take such sayings as these from the Dhammapada: "As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind."
From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix
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