Nothing about them was any different from what we had grown to expect; these two traveled brainlessly and solemnly to the mountain tops, were in a hurry, had a purpose, behaved as though they were running to catch a doctor.
"Look Back on Happiness"
Knut Hamsun
One Thursday evening James Seaton's goddess sat alone with her papa, and-being a young lady of fair abilities, who had gone through her course of music and other studies, taught brainlessly, and who was now going through a course of monotonous pleasures, and had not accumulated any great store of mental resources-she was listless and languid, and would have yawned forty times in her papa's face, only she was too well-bred.
"Foul Play"
Charles Reade Dion Boucicault
The cultivated soldier, who in time of peace would look at nothing theatrical except the most advanced postIbsen plays in the most artistic settings, found himself, to his own astonishment, thirsting for silly jokes, dances, and brainlessly sensuous exhibitions of pretty girls.
"Heartbreak House"
George Bernard Shaw