As Lyons watched, a 20-round maga- zine ran dry and the man dropped it from the weapon and inserted a new box with the same nonthinking, practiced motions as a heroin junkie tying off and firing up.

Apart from the obvious job loss, I would always much rather have a human face to deal with than a nonthinking machine.

But he said, "What we're not going to stand for is the nonthinking playing of this baseball game.

The definition was: "Quality is a characteristic of thought and statement that is recognized by a nonthinking process.

Proponents of polling view the technique as a wonder of modern technology; the disenchanted, remembering past errors, consider polls only a nonthinking tool.

Either one tosses God and Scripture or one is a nonthinking believer in Adam, Eve and the apple.

I need not say that this is the result of a visual - which is to say a nonthinking -culture, inculcated by the age of you-know-what.

Davis saw that in Thomas's game on Tuesday night, that he had become the worst kind of Knick: a nonthinking aggressor instead of a determined basketball player.

"The nonthinking cliche is that music made on computer technology has less soul, but when you play into a computer every aspect can be edited and you can change it to express yourself better any number of ways.