Startled, horrified, bewildered, her mind sang out in reflexive misery. From Wordnik.com. [Does It Hurt When I Go Like This?] Reference
We know certainly know your perceptions, which appear to be based in reflexive emotion and bias, but not rational analysis. From Wordnik.com. [Debates: Fall Calendar Fills Up - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
So reflexive is the role of the intellectual as negator, so free from accountability, that the very meaning of dissent has been obscured. From Wordnik.com. [Daimnation!: Quote of the Day] Reference
Reduction then may be defined as the reflexive transitive closure of one-step reduction. From Wordnik.com. [Combinatory Logic] Reference
This is the so-called reflexive use of the passive, in which the subject is represented as acting upon itself. pecora. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
Tony, Your idea doesn't sound "reflexive," but Doug Kern's does. From Wordnik.com. [Business, Law, Economics & Society] Reference
A little bit early, maybe, but I'm in that kind of reflexive mood. From Wordnik.com. [Year End Meme (What if No One's Watching?)] Reference
In the meantime, I'd just say that the idea isn't purely 'reflexive': a lot of thought can be put into it. From Wordnik.com. [Business, Law, Economics & Society] Reference
When we tried to join the fun, the crowd contracted and squeezed us out in a kind of reflexive mass immune response. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Meritocracy] Reference
That kind of reflexive comment displays a failure of imagination almost as bad as the failure to conceive of awheel. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Christopher Columbus — Hero or Villain?] Reference
I/P, I think the loyalty question is a kind of reflexive statement that people say but don't seem to examine or define. From Wordnik.com. [stench] Reference
The kind of reflexive anti-Americanism that you saw in Europe, in the Islamic world, in some parts of Latin America, that's gone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2010] Reference
The kind of reflexive anti - Americanism that you saw in Europe, in the Islamic world, in some parts of Latin America, that's gone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2010] Reference
It is probably true, however, that it is harder to resist this kind of reflexive reductionism in biology than in any other science today. From Wordnik.com. [What's Not in Your Genes] Reference
Second, there is a "reflexive" tendency for the supply of oil to fall as the price rises, reversing the normal shape of the supply curve. From Wordnik.com. [The Perilous Price of Oil] Reference
It's almost like this White House has some kind of reflexive need to fund liberal projects, necessary and otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Mere Rhetoric] Reference
Well, of course I know Rosalind Krauss, but I'm not a voracious theory reader, and I have a kind of reflexive disdain for the idea of. From Wordnik.com. [greg.org: the making of] Reference
It can continue its reflexive opposition to entitlement reform. From Wordnik.com. [Aarp? Arrgh.] Reference
Handshakes can be more than reflexive gestures in political life. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Of The Snub] Reference
We'll behave in "a reflexive, almost automatic or mechanical manner.". From Wordnik.com. [What It Takes To Survive] Reference
In the years after World War II, Nasser wasn't yet a reflexive U.S. antagonist. From Wordnik.com. [How We Got to This Point] Reference
The under-the-breath insult or withering riff is his reflexive conversational mode. From Wordnik.com. [Spade In America] Reference
The reflexive answer is always "from consumers China and other emerging economies.". From Wordnik.com. [Martin Ford: Soaring Corporate Profits v. An Ailing Economy -- Is it Sustainable?] Reference
Is vervet communication equally reflexive, or do the animals know what their calls mean?. From Wordnik.com. [What Do Monkeys Know?] Reference
It has, for once, dropped its usual reflexive sympathy toward Boris Yeltsin's government. From Wordnik.com. [The Chechen Disaster] Reference
Asked if it was worth it, she has an abrupt, almost reflexive response: "No way," she says. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy Of Summerton] Reference
By constant repetition, a soldier's duties are supposed to become routine, reflexive, automatic. From Wordnik.com. [Fear At The Front] Reference
There are wheels within wheels in this brilliantly self-reflexive anatomy of the movie business. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Blood 'In The Badlands] Reference
Is vervet communication equally reflexive, or do the animals actually know what their calls mean?. From Wordnik.com. [What Do Monkeys Know?] Reference
In this kaleidoscopic arrangement, knee-jerk Atlanticism is as unlikely as reflexive European federalism. From Wordnik.com. [BRITAIN'S BIG TENT] Reference
The Kissingerian urge to isolate Moscow by rushing NATO expansion seems little more than reflexive Ursaphobia. From Wordnik.com. [The Bear Becomes Ursa Minor] Reference
But if excessive optimism was the near-fatal pose in 2008, blind pessimism has emerged as the reflexive post-bust crouch. From Wordnik.com. [Snap Out of It!] Reference
This "reflexive crying" means that babies have the capacity to respond to others 'distress -- a primitive form of empathy. From Wordnik.com. [Raising A Moral Child] Reference
Desperate family members may insist that a hand squeezed back or eyes blinked an answer when the action was only reflexive. From Wordnik.com. [To Him, It Was Still 1988: The 'Coma Cop' Awakens] Reference
But reflexive pessimism is not just wrong -- it's as potentially dangerous as undifferentiated optimism is inevitably assumed to be. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Sunshine In Moscow] Reference
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