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  • [Page 151] mother descriptive of that visit, there is a sense of the weariness, the underlying desolateness of life, very rare in one of her essentially light-hearted and unintrospective temperament:

    Maria Edgeworth 1905

  • That nice, sensible, unintrospective people who were too busy trying to exist pleasantly to trouble their heads as to whether they existed or no -- that this best part of mankind should have gratefully caught at such a straw as "cogito ergo sum," is intelligible enough.

    Life and Habit Samuel Butler 1868

  • Once a fleshy man of appetites awkwardly hitched to a bright, intense, buxom emo-glamour-puss, the unintrospective Harold, who apparently remained ignorant of his wife's infidelity until he died, remembers the period of her indiscretion as his "golden years."

    Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories 2010

  • "killing" quite distinctly and without any evil intent, like the expression on a Greek head I have only once seen, a youthful combatant -- a cheery unintrospective look, a tough round neck, raised chin, oblique eyes, and the least smile on lips just parted.

    From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

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