Sentence examples for not given to reflection from inspiring English sources
It is emphatically not given to reflection, and certainly not to remorse.
"Bush was not one given to reflection, at least not out loud.
He is not given to theological reflection.
O'Hara is not given to deep reflection; in discussing her marriages, which all ended sadly, and her career, she glosses over her bad decisions while protesting her treatment as a decorative actress.
Mr. Levy is not given to self-reflection.
Taking a leave is uncharacteristic for Mr. Weiner, who likes the limelight and is not given to self-reflection — or rest.
Not given to self-reflection or intellectual fancy, he was a man of action.
These may go unrecognized, because adequate time is not given to trainees for reflection.
Not that any of the couple of hundred teenagers on hand minded: Brokencyde — made up of Mikl, Se7en, Phat J and Antz, all of whom contribute vocals — is not a band given to reflection.
Dad, who isn't given to self-reflection, was not.
It was a song that, with its gleefully druggy lyrical preoccupations and primitive riff, could have been made with the express purpose of the Fall alighting on it: it fit their oeuvre so perfectly, it may as well have been a Fall original, which perhaps accounts for the regularity with which Smith – not a man much given to nostalgic reflection on his back catalogue – returned to it onstage.
