How To Use Reflexively In A Sentence
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It won't entirely succeed, of course, but it puts the media on the defensive and makes them reflexively look for "inappropriateness" in the criticism and makes it necessary for everyone to issue a standard disclaimer saying "John McCain is hero and and I have nothing but respect and admiration for his great sacrifice and leadership but....
Hullabaloo
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Their tails popped up reflexively, almost absurdly long and white, and wigwagged out of sight.
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‘Bad luck, Paul,’ she says, reflexively rubbing her sore, distended abdomen.
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I recalled the sentry's warm blood running over my hands and guiltily, reflexively wiped them on my cloak.
Renegade's Magic
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The deeply conservative tendencies we now almost reflexively attribute to canon-making were in the case of the British novel clearly reactions to and revisions of an earlier effort in which dissent was broadly a constitutive element.
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Tears sprang reflexively, unbidden, and cautious he opened his eyes again, to the excruciating light.
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I had felt my fingers curl and uncurl reflexively at the mention of my mother.
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Some people, upon hearing the word rankism, reflexively exclaim, "We don't need another
Uuworld.org: latest stories
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More than ever, US journalists must avoid the temptation to engage in groupthink and - without seeming reflexively adversarial - must ask sharp questions.
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We reflexively break ourselves down into categories, whether it's by indicational attainment, income, whatever -- here's black, white, Hispanic, which can be either race, as the census points out.
Who We Are: A Portrait of America
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The blow did not connect of course, for the monk caught the fist with his hands almost reflexively, but it was not the end.
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To this day, when a glass drops, she's reflexively brought back to what she describes as a "silence of death all around.
Shira Hirschman Weiss: How One Survivor Of Terrorism Is Giving Back
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They are reflexive supporters of the underdog just as the Right reflexively supports the powerful.
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The night wind rustled his hair and his hand reflexively went up to pat down the strays.
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Involuntarily Sloan whimpered and, though his hand was motionless and her skin was still covered, her flesh quivered reflexively and she could feel the damp strokings of his tongue over her navel.
Breakfast In Bed
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Participation is in essence really only a refinement on the methods used to reflexively understand and interpret in everyday life.
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The line reflexively crouched in anticipation of the shower of shrapnel.
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France has in the past four years shed its Gaullist complexes and found a fresh voice that's not reflexively anti-American or ornery.
French Politics After l'Affaire Strauss-Kahn
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Because this pervasive trepidation is unprecedented in their lifetime, most Americans have reflexively invoked the Depression in their efforts to comprehend their experience.
Life In (and After) Our Great Recession
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she answered reflexively, without thinking
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Byrne does hew to the representationalist's line of supervenience (no phenomenal difference without an intentional difference), but if his argument does not rule out mental paint, an anti-representationalist may construct inversion cases such as that of Block's (1990) "Inverted Earth" (see Section 4.4 below), and argue that the paint is a nonfunctional intrinsic mental feature of the experience given in introspection, which is close enough to a "quale" in Block's special sense, even if the feature does happen to be reflexively represented by the experience itself.
Representational Theories of Consciousness
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The startled barbarian grappled reflexively, neglecting the weapons that hung at his waist.
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You know what the problem, you little anonymous pansy, is with reflexively jumping to defend anyone accused of racism?
Matthew Yglesias » Charles Murray Sees Nonwhite People
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Energy explodes from torsos, courses through limbs, and shoots out fingers splayed, reflexively, like a child's.
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From birth, such an infant will reflexively grab and tightly grip whenever he perceives a physical threat.
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The visor of each blast helmet in the pod darkened accommodatingly within three milliseconds to avoid temporary blindness, but each member of the strike team squinted reflexively.
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Participation is in essence really only a refinement on the methods used to reflexively understand and interpret in everyday life.
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I feel sorry for them, really sorry, but reflexively pick up my pace, and head for the even naughtier Underground.
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It ends up like that General in New Orleans, trying *trying* to get important information out about disaster preparedness, having to face reflexively antagonistic journalists and famously pronouncing, "You're stuck on stupid.
A frightening mix of bodily fluids.
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Yes, some teachers and parents reflexively hand out the equivalent of a doggie biscuit every few minutes, the result being that kids habituate to it and it has no impact.
Alfie Kohn: Criticizing (Common Criticisms of) Praise
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If I have to endure another corporate executive blindly praising China and reflexively trashing India, I might actually gag.
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Third, it puts the Democrats in the position of having either to support the end of a federal mandate—something they tend to reflexively oppose—or to look like a bunch of old fuddy-duddies themselves.
Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Drink
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Reflexively Rhodry glanced up to see the smoke rising to a stone flue set in the ceiling as well as a vent or two for fresh air.
A TIME OF WAR
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I used to know how to say "Did you ever participate in an Air Raid?" in Serbo-Croatian, from an Army manual from WW2, and when I lived in NYC & went to Chinatown functions frequented by local pols, my girlfriend taught me to say "Are you corrupt?" in Mandarin - all the grinning ignorant Public Servants reflexively replied "yes, yes" when I asked them, to the delight of the Chinese at the table.
An idea to save newspapers (Jack Bog's Blog)
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* Joe Klein puts his finger on one the now-defunc Democratic Leadership Council's most catastrophic failings: "The war in Iraq, which the DLC supported reflexively, as a way of seeming `strong,' without ever really analyzing the intellectual weaknesses of the casus belli.
Happy Hour Roundup
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The language of allegory relates itself to language not reflexively but rather as an epistemologically uncertain praxis: language relates to itself in the mode of possible unrelatedness.
Notes on 'Reading, Begging, Paul de Man'
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The aforementioned points reflect a disturbing but common trait among provincial, state and federal "environmental" agencies in jurisdictions throughout North America - specifically, an obsessive predilection that drives wildlife managers to reflexively default to the oxymoronic tactic of conservation-by-killing.
Chris Genovali: The Death Cults Among Us
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Within the unfolding of Aoxomoxoa, (a title alliteratively and reflexively evoking the very word "axis" itself!), the flora-like tendrils of childhood experience are anchored, and then extended spoke-like through the flights and journeys of life's passage.
Larbear's Aoxomoxoa Thesis
