unexamining

Which concealed itself from my unexamining heart under the specious veil of humility, doubling the merit to myself by the supposed, and indeed imputed, gracefulness in the manner of conferring benefits, when I had not a single merit in what I did, vastly overpaid by the pleasure of doing some little good, and impelled, as I may say, by talents given me — for what! —

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

In his articles on “Ecce Homo” he expresses the hope “that the present tendency to treat the old belief of man with a precipitate, shallow, and unexamining disparagement, is simply a distemper, that inflicts for a time the moral atmosphere, that is due, like plagues and fevers, to our own previous folly and neglect; and that when it has served its work of admonition and reform, will be allowed to pass away.”

The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

Dudley, and how it was she had been smitten by that woman at Brighton to see herself in her position altogether with the world's relentless, unexamining hard eyes.

One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

Dudley, and how it was she had been smitten by that woman at Brighton to see herself in her position altogether with the world's relentless, unexamining hard eyes.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Dudley, and how it was she had been smitten by that woman at Brighton to see herself in her position altogether with the world's relentless, unexamining hard eyes.

One of Our Conquerors — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

Edward appeared engaged in admiring the shape of his own long, upturned shoes, those defects in his shape which the popular hatred and the rise of the House of Tudor exaggerated into the absolute deformity that the unexamining ignorance of modern days and

The Last of the Barons — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

But now as he rose, obedient to a whisper from the duchess, and followed her to the window, while Edward appeared engaged in admiring the shape of his own long, upturned shoes, those defects in his shape which the popular hatred and the rise of the House of Tudor exaggerated into the absolute deformity that the unexamining ignorance of modern days and Shakspeare's fiery tragedy have fixed into established caricature, were sufficiently apparent.

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Joanna, what, in the worst construction, is but an unexamining adoption of the contemporary historical accounts.

Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822

For though a dancer, by an assiduous practice, may, at the first unexamining glance, appear as well in the eyes of the public, as he who possesses the rules; the illusion will not be lasting; it will soon be dissipated, especially where there is present an object of comparison.

A Treatise on the Art of Dancing Giovanni-Andrea Gallini 1766

For almost 30 years, American press coverage of Afghanistan has been simplistic, misleading, unexamining, accepting and echoing government propaganda, and just plain wrong.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009