The text does not independently have effects on readers or compel them to act in particular ways, as if they were passive and unreflecting objects. |
Our campsite is a sliver of sand bordered by a dense thicket of trees on one side and a river of gray unreflecting water on the other. |
This color, with one-third less white, is very suitable for roofs, and is a cool, unreflecting grey. |
Yet to the unreflecting eye they can appear as isolationist, self-serving and even criminal. |
The unreflecting person clumps about on the earth's surface, but if she needs to know more about who she is and where she came from, she must dig down. |
To that purpose it is adapted when the hearers are untaught, untrained, and unreflecting. |