What's the difference between mindless and unchallenging?

Mindless


Definition:

  • (a.) Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.
  • (a.) Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tottenham MP David Lammy said the community "had the heart ripped out of it" by "mindless, mindless people", many of whom had come from outside Tottenham.
  • (2) When people get together sometimes they forget their individual responsibility and maybe when you go home and watch it on television you are less proud.” Coates agreed with Wenger that it is best to turn a deaf ear to those mindless enough to sing that sort of song.
  • (3) From that day video games – the youngest and therefore the most misunderstood and feared entertainment medium – have struggled to shrug off the perception that they are violent, often mindless, occasionally sexist and fundamentally unconstructive.
  • (4) "Not one person has given any positive to his tenure of management, just kept mindlessly claiming he needs time.
  • (5) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
  • (6) The increasingly frequent murder of Nato trainers by the Afghans they are supposed to mentor has done as much to eradicate trust in the relationship between the Kabul government and its western backers as the sight of US marines videoed while urinating on the corpses of insurgents, or the mindless decision to burn Qur'ans at a US military base.
  • (7) To speak metaphorically, we can opt for either brainless or mindless psychiatry, as Szasz proposed.
  • (8) The architect of the RBCT called the new cull "mindless".
  • (9) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
  • (10) Last week you were saying the violence was understandable given the offensive film and this week you are trying to claim it was mindless," he wrote.
  • (11) This article describes a detailed model of how such "mindless" processes might lead to intelligent choices of strategies in one common situation: that in which people need to choose between stating a retrieved answer and using a backup strategy.
  • (12) The critics have raved about Amour : to some it is a "beautifully calculated demise" or "old age that refuses to be swept under the carpet and mindlessly 'othered' "; to others it shows "Haneke's flair for the emotionally brutal" and is an "overlong unblinking meditation on life's last act".
  • (13) It was hypothesized that as overlearning leads to "mindlessness," the individual components of a task become relatively inaccessible to consciousness and therefore unavailable to serve as evidence of task competence.
  • (14) We are about to take this country backwards in droves through the mindless ideological bent of the Coalition .
  • (15) And on this we must agree: there is no speech that justifies mindless violence," he said.
  • (16) As a letter in the Guardian from the Labour MP Peter Hain two days later put it: "Wednesday night's events were not mindless thuggery but organised political violence.
  • (17) Alex Song’s mindless red card near the end of the first half certainly made their task an easier one, but Croatia put the setback of their opening defeat to Brazil behind them with clinical ease.
  • (18) Thus to see Timothy Spall in Mr Turner mindlessly attacking a badly painted oil sketch was a painful experience for those that love and study art, spoiling for me what otherwise was a beautifully shot and constructed film.
  • (19) "We are not on a mindless hunt for unique users," said Bailey.
  • (20) Hollywood blockbusters and TV dramas are saturated with mindless terrorists.

Unchallenging


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
  • (2) These late paintings were deemed too perfect, not "badly done" enough, perhaps, and unchallenging: there was in them a marked absence of painterly lavishness.
  • (3) Rebels moved unchallenged along a road littered with evidence of the air campaign and the speed of their enemies' retreat.
  • (4) Migration inhibition (MI) assays using peritoneal and spleen cells from immunized but unchallenged mice showed no parallel correlation with percent mortality.
  • (5) Although unlicensed in the UK, because it uses satellites operated from Luxembourg, not unlike pirate radio, it is allowed to start unchallenged.
  • (6) Dame Julie Mellor has accused the boards of hospitals of adding to patients' pain and letting poor care continue unchallenged by doing too little to spot and stop serious failings.
  • (7) In public discourse, to broadcast these ideas and leave them unchallenged is effectively to endorse them.
  • (8) In the context of what he called the "normalisation of war", Bacevich argued that unchallenged, expanding American military superiority encouraged the use of force, accustomed "the collective mindset of the officer corps" to ideas of dominance, glorified warfare and the warrior and advanced the concept of "the moral superiority of the soldier" over the civilian.
  • (9) While caricatures of welfare dependents reign unchallenged, pressing practical questions about how poor people can make ends meet are ducked.
  • (10) The lie that the credit crunch was caused by excessive public spending , rather than spectacular managerial private sector failure, continues to go largely unchallenged.
  • (11) Does that give him an unchallenged right to set a new agenda for how a man talks to a woman?"
  • (12) There was no checking their charges into space – they needed snuffing out – while the impressive Busquets collected unchallenged in central areas and shifted the ball on, either up to Messi or across the field from one side to the other.
  • (13) But the letter, passed to the Guardian, claims the BBC increasingly treats Migration Watch as "neutral analysts of UK migration patterns", adding that its opinions often go unchallenged on BBC news programmes.
  • (14) Weight-induced lesions showed a mixed inflammatory infiltrate, primarily polymorphonuclear (neutrophils and eosinophils), whereas the unchallenged skin sites were normal.
  • (15) Guinness also wielded glacial fierceness and terror with unchallengeable authority.
  • (16) These comments must not go unchallenged and have to be investigated by the FA.” Whelan’s apology had attempted to clarify his feelings on Jewish people, but he appeared to remain unsure if “chink” was an offensive term.
  • (17) Many students saw anesthesiology as limited in scope and unchallenging and indicated that they did not select anesthesiology because it entails insufficient primary patient care.
  • (18) Next time, though, Fox’s friends will be onscreen unchallenged, and they won’t even have to try.
  • (19) Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative leader, said: "We now have the European commission reaffirming what everyone knows – that a separate Scotland cannot simply waltz into the EU unchallenged.
  • (20) An additional 20 chicks from each of the four groups were maintained as unchallenged controls.