How To Use Reflection In A Sentence

In the sunlight, the steel surface comes alive with reflections, picking up the green of the surrounding grass.
If the plane contains the main rotation axis then it is usually called a vertical reflection plane; and if it is perpendicular to the main rotation axis it is known as a horizontal reflection plane.
The fall in popularity of the death's head and the subsequent prevalence of the cherub was a reflection of the Great Awakening and the belief in the immortality of the soul: "Cherubs reflect a stress on resurrection, while death's heads emphasize the mortality of man. Headstones for Dummies, the New York Edition
Jade, which was recovered from the river when its reflection was seen in the moonlight, was an important commodity.
He looked in the fogged up mirror at the reflection staring back at him.

But a moment's reflection shows the absurdity of this idea.
Reflections on Rosemary were given by her niece Claire and one of her great-nieces, Annie.
To allow the few who dishonour our country to become a reflection of our entire nation is to distort history.
But these shortcomings are easily put right and are no reflection on the car's basic integrity.
Self-interest and self-satisfaction are replaced with self-reflection and significant improvement.
I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. Chapter 1
The film is a reflection of the violence that pervades American culture.
They are sharing, in a companionable silence somehow caught on camera, a moment of profound reflection and thought.
On reflection, however, I feel this would be unlikely, because I cannot be alone in considering his regular waspish observations positive endorsement of a production.
The abstract representations are also a reflection of the artist's mastery over colour and light.
They should offer stunning reflections of sky and clouds by day and look most magical at night. Times, Sunday Times
Not without a painful emotion of impending danger, as I watched the stellular reflections dancing in the rushing river, did I wander on in the wake of a group of pack-ponies, and took my turn in being assisted over the broken chasms by the muleteers. Across China on Foot
He should use the Christmas period for mature reflection and then tender his resignation.
The sustained rate of violence was real, not merely a reflection of a new awareness or better record keeping.
His low level of performance is no reflection on his general ability.
This is a place to enjoy, watching the world go by or indulging in some quiet reflection, particularly on a warm summer's day.
This "reflection upon itself" part could lead to a theory of subjectivity, that, like Deleuze's "intensities," would manifest, exponentially, more concentrated wave interaction i.e. in itself, in the body; of the body itself, leading to thought? Archive 2005-10-01
There stood our granddaughter, and in her gray-green eyes and impudent grin I saw the reflection of our Christmas Boy.
In dense media with lossless reflection arising from multiple scattering, the threshold for laser action is greatly reduced.
His speech was an accurate reflection of the public mood.
Several in company checked him from time to time for his bitter reflections instead of arguments, and wished him, if he could to answer my arguments, which he called sophistry, assuring him that until he did, they must receive my opinion and arguments as scriptural and sound reasoning. Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.
Rather it was a reflection of the attention she herself craved. Times, Sunday Times
The sheer size of both works easily reveals each grain of color within the picture plane so that they appear as contemporary reflections of the pointillist style of Georges Seurat.
Graduation is a time for rejoining and is also a time for reflection.You will be going out into the world to make a career for yourself.Wish you well in all your understandings and hope that you will find your career a source of great joy and happiness.
Richard Kraft: Something With Birds In It | A site-specific installation composed of four elements, Something With Birds In It invokes the friction and fluidity between familiar polarities--between the sacred and profane, sense and nonsense, play and violence, reflection and action. Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011)
In silhouette or kindly light you might be taken for my, my for your, reflection. The Times Literary Supplement
As well as his new-found sobriety, this may be in part a reflection of a stability in his personal life. Times, Sunday Times
The experience was a time of deep reflection and soul-searching.
The small lake at the base of the fort is mirror-like, in which a diverse group of birds admire their reflections.
The sun was so dazzling that it was impossible to even look at its reflection in the water.
She provides a potent forum for personal reflections on reconciling one's childhood with issues of socialisation and survival.
The selections this week include reflections on the Meath bus crash, Conor Lenihan as a kebab chef, a Star Wars horoscope, cyberstalking, and deranged art.
They emplaced the EASEP geophysical package, including a laser reflection array that is still being used by earth-based astronomers. Moon Pirates - NASA Watch
A flaring sunset touches the trees with colours of flame and molten copper; reddens even the bullrushes and the ropes of ivy which drift, among their own reflections, in the river.
But her shrill, naive polemicizing caused Michaels to inwardly wince, as if at a cruel reflection of himself. The Cry of the Onlies
Your only comfort lay in the forced reflection, that, real as he looked, the poor caitiff was but imaginary, a bit of painted canvass, whom no delirium tremens, nor so much as a retributive headache, awaited, on the morrow.
Some have suggested she was holding a spear and shield proudly aloft, others that the goddess of beauty held a mirror - to admire her own reflection. Times, Sunday Times
The subsequent interviews and meetings followed accepted methods of qualitative research, and we believe the results to be an accurate reflection of the participants' views.
Pleasing to the eye: Owing to the diffuse reflection of vermiculites , its flamboyant looking and tridimensional appearance, metal roofing tiles enjoy great popularity worldwide.
Such items encouraged meaningful reflection on the Union victory; they also provided hours of entertainment and diversion.
The fact that soldiers are on the streets is a reflection of how terrified the government is.
Silk taffeta is lit up with metallic yarns; mesh is wired for a new look; and paillettes add reflections to fabrics.
Transparent species are susceptible to detection by reflections from their body surface, particularly at shallow depths.
If there are pinpoint lights or reflections in the view, flare can sometimes give them a halo. Photographers Handbook
Venus' face is a blurred reflection in a mirror and in Mars (which depicts the unheroic body of a strong old man got up in drapes and a helmet) the face is in shadow.
The majority of Khojas are also converts from Hinduism and their customs are a reflection of this.
There, in the very ground beneath her feet, was a periscopic reflection of what was going on above ground. EVERVILLE
The reflections and soliloquies of Artamène recur; but a not unimportant, although subordinate, new character appears -- not as the first example, but as the foremost representative, in the novel, of the great figure of the "confidante" -- in Martésie, Mandane's chief maid of honour. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
He could see his reflection, turned gaunt and ashen, in the fragment of mirror propped against the lavatory window.
Plant a group of trees by a pond and you get twice the value from their reflections. Times, Sunday Times
He was wearing a black jacket with white reflection marks, dark blue jeans and trainers.
Turning 50 is a cause for sombre reflection, not celebration," opined Norris and, as a flurry of firemen attempted to free her empurpled cranium, shame descended once more. World Of Lather
Combined together, the inner layer appears diffused and gauzy, successfully creating the illusion of depth and reflection.
I couldn't have said whether it was the reflection of the snow or something else that gave his face a sickly, cadaverous tint.
That is a sad reflection on me and my time at this club. The Sun
Inevitably, your inner reflection will lead you to draw conclusions that will help you change the course of your entire life.
Reflection on the basic rationale of equity investment, that is.
He caught sight of her reflection in the window.
The celebrations are expected to be modest and low-key, a reflection of the falling economic fortunes of the territory.
Self-reflection and humility are not marketable commodities among hucksters.
After ample reflection, I concluded that the primary cause of my troubles was the farm itself.
The backsplash is the perfect place for a little reflection. Apartment Therapy Main
Fireflies danced about and the creek water seemed to glow from the moon's reflection.
Reflection records over the main plateau reveal smoothly-layered, undistorted sediments overlying a relatively smooth basement surface.
I would like to think it wasn't a true reflection of what we can do and tonight we can show that is the case.
It would be an opportunity for reflection specifically for people coming with a background of development experience and practice.
A factor representing the degree of specular reflection of a road surface.
The play, she hoped, could serve as a mirror for us to see our own reflection, which eventually, might mend the broken love between us.
Deception by mirrors has a basis in optical principles, in so far as reflections in mirrors do not correspond wholly to the objects that caused them.
I think today our nation is at the crossroads where a serious reflection on the direction of our policies is a matter of uttermost urgency.
I also used the opportunity to see if I might ask the kids what they liked and disliked about recess; I needed their insights to flesh out my reflections.
Her reflection was eerie and the skylight threw a shocking bright light down on top of her.
If at times the voice of the song is plaintive, that is no more than a reflection of broken homesteads and sweltering emigrant ships. The Irish Mind
Although we are a reflection of our genetic inheritance, we are more than our genes.
From an anatomical and surgical point of view, the rectum begins at the peritoneal reflection.
But this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will, cannot coexist with reflection: it disappears with civilization, and can no more be reproduced than the fear of ghosts after childhood. Uncollected Prose
Just rueful reflection on the one that got away. Times, Sunday Times
In Chapter 3 we discussed how the thermodynamic arrow of entropy increase is a reflection of the relative probabilities of various states.
The outer world you see is a reflection of your inner self.
Then she caught her reflection in the mirror and looked herself squarely in the eye.
Influence from Ground Attenuation, Screening, Reflection, Directivity Index.
That Stephen is said to ‘inbreathe’ this ‘tremulous morning knowledge’ becomes significant after we see the first cycle of represented inspiration, creative thought, poem text, and Stephen's reflections on the process.
Desires are resilient, in this sense, when they are unresponsive to the agent's own deliberative reflection.
To avoid any possible influence of these reflections on the results of our analysis, only the top halves of the peaks were used for spacing measurements.
English pistols were usually browned to reduce glare and light reflection.
The merit belongs to all psychologists participating, for they make clinical and health psychology advance through the reflections and opinions displayed on these lines, which describe what we are and design what we want to be.
Then, upon reflection, Erik went back to fetch the Punjab lasso, which is very curiously made out of catgut, and which might have set an examining magistrate thinking. The Phantom of the Opera
Just as thought should precede action, reflection should follow it, on the Organizational as well as the personal level.
Psychologists call this narcissism, the personality trait that was inspired by Narcissus, the Greek god who saw his reflection in a pool and fell in love with himself.
On this panel, Brunelleschi painted a view of the baptistery from a representation that he had traced on and over its mirror reflection.
In this paper we describe a method to improve the recording sensitivity by twice reflections of light ray without changing the inherent sensitivity of the instrument.
In the end, we're not quite sure if the soulless quality of the milieu he chronicles is a reflection of the world outside his head or the one inside it.
As we enter the 21st century, the time has come, surely, for a period of mature reflection.
Typical projection optics designs feature NAs of around 0.25 and consist of at least six aspherical mirror surfaces, with reflections tilted off-axis.
This account is only a pale reflection of the true state of affairs.
But he seemed able to keep the excesses of Hollywood at bay with a bohemian lifestyle that was perhaps a reflection of a childhood on the move. Times, Sunday Times
This little epigraph is nothing more than a physical reflection of what scooted across so-and-so's mind while sitting and reflecting on a difficult passage or poesy or prose.
People find self-reflection and self-improvement in a variety of ways. . . Staring Into the Chasm
The fiction of Richard Powers sometimes resembles a dying satyr — above the waist is a mind full of serious thought, philosophical reflection, deep exploration of music and science; below, a pair of spindly legs strain to support the great weight of the ambitious brain. 2009 September | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
The Reflection Concerning the Argument of " the Criticism " and " the Theorization
If you are using your glasses to stare at the screen, she recommends an antireflection coating to cut down glare. Times, Sunday Times
His memoirs are simply a blow-by-blow account of battles, and contain very little personal comment or reflection.
Coffee houses were a reflection of the emerging middle class, with its emphasis on discussion, exploration of ideas, sobriety and refined sociability.
Perhaps that is a reflection of the influence he holds.
Seismic reflection data from NW James Ross Island show maximum dips of 15 to the SE in the subsurface, indicating that the steep dips are confined to a zone close to the basin margin.
But the man who masterminded the triumph was engaged in very different reflections. Times, Sunday Times
The encounters happened, each race finding in the other little more than a distorted reflection of itself.
You may want to write your reflections in a journal or discuss them with a friend or spiritual leader.
On their own, these cosy familiarities are a charming reflection of easy intimacy. Times, Sunday Times
While her thoughts were occupied with these melancholy reflections, a shadowy figure seemed to detach itself from the copsewood on her right hand. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Will, therefore, a compliance unto this length better our condition? will it deliver us from the severest reflections of being persons unpeaceable and intolerable? A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity
It was a beautifully worked out theory and explained most of the observed phenomena of light such as reflection, refraction, diffraction etc.
She studied her reflection, glad she had added an extra spritz of hair spray and kept her strawberry lip gloss tube in her pocket.
Not that this is a fair reflection of the returns received by most investors. Times, Sunday Times
The library is unique and its break-up would be a sad reflection on the value we place on our heritage.
The more convincing the painting, the greater the paradox that it was but a reflection or shadow, and the more the painter looked like a prestidigitator.
Fr. Rutler's views on liturgical music and hymnography are a reflection of his lifelong service to the Lord.
He had no real opportunity for reflection or concoction, too little time for fabrication.
And third, passion can make someone impetuous; here its victory over reason is so powerful that the latter does not even enter into the arena of conscious reflection until it is too late to influence action.
Leave them to sleep quietly and wake slowly, to soothe themselves with softly waving reflections and shadows of trees on the ceiling? The Sun
Williams's putting more self reflection and understanding in his music than ever before, and he's a rich seam of material.
They should offer stunning reflections of sky and clouds by day and look most magical at night. Times, Sunday Times
To carry on that wise injunction, we have to engage in a process of self-reflection that unavoidably opens up to scrutiny the dialectic processes between self and context and contexts of contexts.
On the water's edge just a few metres away an elegant white crane admires its reflection in the water.
Blogs range from offering recipes to requests for prayers, to moving spiritual reflections and writings about saints to polemics about political correctness in the pulpit.
He was not so bewildered in his own hurried reflections but that he remarked, that the deadly paleness which had occupied her neck and temples, and such of her features as the riding-mask left exposed, gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks. The Bride of Lammermoor
Football keeps trying to'move forward' with undue haste when some proper reflection might bring some useful lessons. Times, Sunday Times
Picture editors suspect that the mystery photographer is the figure wearing a hat who appears in a reflection in a glass door in one pictures. Times, Sunday Times
Here I recorded my adult reflections, insights, and thoughts, dialogued with the young girl, listened to her complaints and her feelings as she struggled hard to emerge into my conscious life.
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Not only does a journal provide a storehouse of material, and encourage sharp observation and profound reflection, but also it is developing the habit and skills of writing through regular engagement.
A hot and impulsive temper was checked by the reflection that it was beneath the dignity of human nature to allow a rush of blood to the organs of "combativeness" and The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
A specular reflection, or glint, occurs when a smooth, mirror-like surface is oriented so that it reflects sunlight directly at an observer.
But on careful reflection, these are all very fine qualities. Times, Sunday Times
Describing the film as a reflection of life in present India, the film-maker points out that the roles the characters play within the film become their masks and pretence to higher moral ground.
Consumer durables Ownership of particular consumer durables is a further reflection of standards of living.
As I sat nursing these reflections, the casement behind me was banged on to the floor by a blow from the latter individual, and his black countenance looked blightingly through. Wuthering Heights
Young people's behaviour is a direct reflection of adults'.
Each service includes short scripture readings, petitions regarding mourning, suggestions for reflection, and room for journaling.
The traditional quadrivium is essentially the study of pattern, harmony, symmetry and order in nature and mathematics viewed as a reflection of the Divine Order. David Clayton on the Way of Beauty at Thomas More College, New Hampshire
Think back to something you did on your own recently - perhaps an invigorating run or a peaceful moment of solitary reflection.
Her husband, the Rev. George Butler, understood it as a true reflection of divine love.
The increase in crime is a sad reflection on our society today.
But what it does is create a space for renewal and reflection on the universe and its injustices.
In the basic arrangement for lighting by reflection, the light is aimed directly away from the subject towards a white surface. Collins Complete Guide to Photography
But even this melted away: first, under the reflection that if the mysterious fur-merchant wished to remain incognito, he must be extremely provoked with Margaret; (and she rather liked the idea of any body being provoked with Margaret;) and secondly, a further thaw took place on more amiable grounds, when the Duke, laying his hand gently on her arm as she passed from the dining-room, said fondly: Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
Holidays provide a rare opportunity for reflection, but the result can be unsettling, with a general disenchantment that sometimes turns into career anxiety. Times, Sunday Times
The building's modernist beauty and grandness is a reflection of the adoration that Miró is held in by Barcelona. New Europe: Juan Miró, a titan of art whose presence is still felt
Neither seems remotely interested in the characters they invent as anything more than reflections of authorial narcissism.
Simple specular reflection system comparison, produces only a bunch of scanlines.
This past election was a mirror reflection of the level of concern there is within our community and others throughout Manitoba.
Without rest and reflection animal instincts belie our spiritual growth.
On reflection the chess metaphor is not a felicitous one.
He turned side-on, looking at the reflection of his upper arm.
The stately and complex narrative is composed in the alliterative metre common to most early Germanic poetry, and is enhanced by rich description, decorous speeches, and moral reflection.
These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed.
Another obvious gender difference was in the marital status of the testators: while male testators were single, married, and widowed, most women's testamentary documents, at least those that have survived, were written by widows. 50 Most of these were disposing of relatively small estates, often in exchange for support in their old age, and they tended to be less preoccupied with maintaining properties in the patriline, although this may simply have been a reflection of the lesser significance of the properties they were transferring. Gutenber-e Help Page
Tornay's approach, however, is nuanced by the self-reflection that has characterized social anthropology during the past generation.
His alternation of horizontals and verticals plays like a musician's notes; each arrangement is a complex, nuanced reflection of universal and personal pathos and always more than the sum of its parts.
It was plain that this person, in the course of her reflections on life, was regarding her own case, and had arrived at the conviction that in order to preserve herself from the mockeries of life, she was not in a position to do anything else but simply "croak" -- to use her own expression. Best Russian Short Stories
The radar can spot both horizontal and vertical reflections, which are presented as globes on a grid.
Upon reflection, we might wonder why such an economy does not collapse in complete chaos.
One morning she was working at home on an assignment for her class in theological reflection.
Not the less soured by these multiplied causes of irritation, from the reflection that they were attributable to his own follies and vices, he gave full scope to his resentments, and indulged himself in expressions of angry reproach against what he termed the ingratitude of his country, which provoked those around him, and gave great offense to Congress. Life and Times of Washington
Hypoalbuminaemia may be a reflection of chronic inflammation rather than of nutrition in itself.
Fortunately, the databinding engine uses reflection to check for INotifyCollectionChanged on the collection itself rather than the object being used as the DataContext. Site Home
The library is unique and its break-up would be a sad reflection on the value we place on our heritage.
In the end it is not the insight into star architects that leaves the deepest impression, but the level of thoughtful reflection.
Hurley's show was a brilliant reflection of Kiwi culture and portrayal of the triviality of politics and the public's attitude towards them.
The problem is solved if the central core is very thin so that there is no room for reflection.
The ripples in the water distorted the reflection of the moon and trees.
If you're a concerned parent, cutting off a texting plan isn't likely to rein in your teen's sexual habits - those sexts are just a reflection of their habits at large.
The texture of the revolving bowl and the softness of the reflection convert the view into an eighteenth century aquatint in which motor cars seem as delicate and exotica as sedan chairs.
The paper is written in the character of a travelling and philosophical American, who pours forth his thoughts on the opera; the topics being the deterioration of music as an art, the small beneficial result that follows so much outlay and such a combination of artistical skill, the amount of training bestowed on the singers and dancers, greater than that which produces great men, and the company before the curtain, together with reflections thereanent. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
There were no reflections off the clear Plexiglas canopy which reached over their heads and down below their shoulders. FLASH POINT
I find the pews strong and sturdy, where young and old alike feel secure during periods of worship or quiet reflection.
Requests for funding theological reflection need to be stimulated.
Using the gas zone seismic reflection character incorporated with drilled wells to predict its lateral distribution, we have obtained better predicting effects.
The superannuated may perhaps devote themselves to reflection and advice.
It was natural that this cynicism should infect poetic self-reflection, hence certain theoretico-aesthetic “movements” and manifestoes; I suspect, although I wasn’t there to witness what actually happened, that Ange is right in saying that certain avant garde poetry had tried to deliberately retreat from the figure; however, in retrospect, one finds that all poetic practice, in practice, was never really able do completely without the world or its actual things. Writing and Failure (Part 8) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
A part of the landscape is an interesting phenomenon; in amongst the endless fields, you will find the occasional lonely hill, rising abruptly from the earth and coming to a broad flat top ... utterly alien in that flat land, and upon reflection, very hard to explain. Archive 2010-04-01
A moment's reflection will show the stupidity of this argument.
[N] ow is a time for respect, reflection and remembrance," Rick Scott, chairman of Conservatives for Patients 'Rights, said in a statement. 'Now is a time for respect,' conservative group says
[FOOTNOTE: Count Wodzinski writes: "It was not blonde, but of a shade similar to that of his eyes: ash-coloured (cendre), with golden reflections in the light."] Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
The purpose of the current paper is to lay some theoretical guideposts for further work and reflection.
With its eroticized reflections on modern aesthetics and liberal guilt, it's like watching a bi-curious college professor annotate an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue. Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles
He knew that by this route he would avoid meeting his companions; its difficulties and circuitousness would exercise his feverish limbs and give him time for reflection. On the Frontier
The official welcome which the city of Hiroshima extends to visiting pilgrims is well designed to encourage a mood of solemn reflection. Infinite in All Directions
Any theological reflection on human work and social praxis ought to be rooted in this fundamental affirmation.
In fact I do forget, but then I see my reflection in a storefront window or in the window of a passing car, and I'm this man holding a box.
The final result was a fair reflection of an even contest although City's main concern remains the lack of a goal threat.
There was to be no pause for reflection, nor - much less - for a changeover from military to civilian rule.
Postmodern novels defamiliarize this ideology by highlighting their own status as textual constructs, thereby disallowing readers to interpret their fictive worlds as transparent or neutral reflections of reality.
He goes on to claim that social theory is a poor reflection of Christian orthodoxy.
Laughter is easily restrained, by a very little reflection; but as it is generally connected with the idea of gaiety, people do not enough attend to its absurdity. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

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