Irreflection

So, with laughter and a continual crack of voices our jay-like crew swung on, swaying and thumping in the strange ecstasy of irreflection, happy to be moving they knew not where, nor greatly why, under the visiting sun, to the sound of murdered music. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The play was Macbeth — the first actor of the age was there to exert his powers to drug with irreflection the auditors; such a medicine I yearned for, so I entered. ❋ Unknown (2003)

In his tribulation and irreflection, he drew no line between the present and the past, but simply concluded, that if he saved her too late, he did not save her at all. ❋ Paul Adrien (N/A)

Las Casas replied to this with great benevolence, saying that as he was ready even to shed his blood for them, he had no intention of interfering with their properties except in so far as was necessary to prevent sin against God and their neighbour: he exhorted them to consider matters calmly and not to allow themselves to be carried away by irreflection. ❋ Francis Augustus MacNutt (N/A)

Consideration of the facts here briefly touched upon should serve to restrain and temper the condemnation that irreflection has too often allowed us to heap exclusively upon them for their share in these great iniquities. ❋ Francis Augustus MacNutt (N/A)

The play was Macbeth -- the first actor of the age was there to exert his powers to drug with irreflection the auditors; such ❋ Unknown (1826)

The play was Macbeth -- the first actor of the age was there to exert his powers to drug with irreflection the auditors; such a medicine I yearned for, so I entered. ❋ Unknown (1826)

Malone, with childish irreflection, ascribes the loss of such memorials to the want of enthusiasm in his admirers. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

If they do not seek it by reflection -- if, in their ardour to penetrate into the secrets of nature, they forget themselves; if they allow the supreme facts of their moral life to remain in the confusion of tradition, and seek to compromise the demands of their spirit by sacrificing to the idols of their childhood's faith; if they fortify themselves in the indifference of agnosticism, -- they must reap the harvest of their irreflection. ❋ Henry Jones (1887)