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Example sentences for "uncritical"

Lexicographically close words:
uncovered; uncovering; uncovers; uncreate; uncreated; uncritically; uncrossed; uncrowned; uncrystallizable; unction
  1. He then, and then only, proceeds to put the question (which uncritical thinkers always put first), What can the intellect do for us?

  2. It becomes transcendent, and offers us a dogmatic and uncritical metaphysics" (p.

  3. You have to avoid, again, the danger of alienating men of science by a blind partial, and uncritical treatment of your national antiquities.

  4. Roman historical composition had its origin in the pontifical college of ecclesiastical lawyers, and preserved to its close the uncritical spirit which characterised its fountain-head.

  5. And this is really the attitude of Livy, who claims for early Roman legend a certain uncritical homage from the rest of the subject world.

  6. In an uncritical age the cheat succeeded; the letters were quite to the taste of many readers; and ever since they have been the delight of High Churchmen.

  7. But she is no uncritical admirer of the heroes and heroines.

  8. To establish her contention that women have been educated in arts and sciences in the past she gives an unchronological, uncritical list of women who attained distinction in Greece and Rome and in Bible times.

  9. The uncritical character of the book is indicated by the remark of Miss Hays, "My book is intended for women and not for scholars.

  10. Praise so heterogeneous and uncritical was perhaps of little value, but such as it is, it stands alone in England in the period between Elizabeth and Charles II as a defense of learned women.

  11. Pantheism is generally the creation of brooding wonder and uncritical thought; Pantheism feels rather than thinks; it accepts rather than seeks to explain.

  12. It was uncritical in its acceptance of the supernatural and trained on the whole to find its main line of evidence for the reality of religion in the supernatural.

  13. On the other hand they tempt their faithful to take conjecture for reality; they create a credulous and uncritical temper; they are hostile to that honest dealing with fact which is just one condition of getting on at all.

  14. Deep as they were, they gripped the ordinary uncritical reader, and they gripped the critic in spite of himself, so that he bitterly resented being moved by a work so flagrantly and obviously faulty.

  15. This corner-stone of the Fichtean philosophy was forgotten throughout the uncritical and unphilosophical decades of a mere naturalistic age.

  16. Because of our uncritical parochialism America is comparable to a cemetery of cliches.

  17. Our very souls centred in our eyes; but, uncritical as was our mood in the presence of all this imaginative art, we could not help noting that it was without a single trait of the modern.

  18. In all of the eminent was the quality of a singularly uncritical era.

  19. The laziness of an uncritical period can be nowhere more blatant than in the inherited habit of talking about authors as a whole.

  20. It is true that the old uncritical writers on natural history attributed to the elephant, among other laudable qualities, the virtue of religiousness; but the religion of elephants belongs to the realm of fable.

  21. With the Catholics, and with all the old, uncompromising, uncritical Christians, that which was a mystery of faith was a mystery of life, of morality.

  22. The attempt to resolve into disconnected parts a book so perfect in its plan, and which has come down to us by the unanimous testimony of antiquity in its present form, is a most uncritical procedure.

  23. Had the ancient critics generally adopted this uncritical method, the sacred text would long ago have fallen into irretrievable confusion.

  24. English Socialists try to impose upon an uncritical public by parading the worn-out stage properties of the forties.

  25. But that disposition, left to itself, is a vague and very uncritical disposition.

  26. Not even that precipitate wrecker of splendid possibilities, Alexander the Great, has been so magnified and dressed up for the admiration of careless and uncritical readers.

  27. The only knowledge recognized was an uncritical textual knowledge of a selection of Latin and Greek classics, and the test of a good style was its abundance of quotations, allusions, and stereotyped expressions.

  28. Bede, Alcuin, Hincmar, Raban, and a number of inferior names, become real giants of learning in their uncritical panegyrics.

  29. The evidence of the earliest Christian writers is not only uncritical and casual, but is also fragmentary" (Ibid, p.

  30. Sidenote: Exploration and testing] If the suggestion that occurs is at once accepted, we have uncritical thinking, the minimum of reflection.

  31. And when this belief is once lodged in his uncritical mind, it is difficult to dispel it, even with a long course of Othello and Hamlet.

  32. The charge of uncritical or indiscriminate admission cannot be substantiated.

  33. He never in the whole course of his life got rid of the prejudice that the recognition of the priority of Mark was identical with a retrograde movement towards an uncritical orthodoxy.

  34. He had married for love,--urged thereto by a headlong, unquestioning, uncritical passion.

  35. He was here, alone in the unsentient, uncritical forest.

  36. Figuier among an uncritical public is such as to justify us in devoting a few paragraphs to a book [13] which, on its own merits, is unworthy of any notice whatever.

  37. To this uncritical spirit, leading to the neglect of such books as failed to answer the dogmatic requirements of the Church, may probably be attributed the loss of so many of the earlier gospels.

  38. I saw, I think, fully twenty newspaper notices of the book; and in not a single one was there any recognition of the gross and thrice-repeated blunder above italicized, to modify the chorus of uncritical assent.

  39. Loisy, with all his scholarly painstaking and his laudable measure of candour, presenting us finally with an uncritical result.

  40. The Nemesis of this uncritical method appears in its development at the hands of Dr.

  41. He has disciples who are as uncritical of his works as he was, for whom he is always prophet, never artist, or rather an infallible artist because a prophet.

  42. Barth was a very voluminous writer; his works, which were the fruits of extensive reading and a retentive memory, are unmethodical and uncritical and marred by want of taste and of clearness.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uncritical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    blanket; casual; credulous; cursory; depthless; doting; facile; fond; fulsome; general; imprudent; inaccurate; indiscreet; indiscriminate; inexact; infatuated; insensitive; promiscuous; sketchy; superficial; superstitious; tactless; trusting; unconscientious; uncritical; undiscriminating; undoubting; unexacting; unscrupulous; unsuspecting; unsuspicious; wholesale