Sentence examples for Be reflexive from inspiring English sources

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Be reflexive

adjective

Referring back to the subject, or having an object equal to the subject.

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Such relations are said to be reflexive.

Their rejection of the Senate bill could simply be reflexive recoiling at anything touched by Democrats.

Grant's giving instincts might be reflexive, but they do clearly contribute to his success.

But a reflexive modernist can't do much to redeem an institution that declines to be reflexive about itself.

Saccades can be reflexive in nature for example, when an object appears in one's peripheral field of view.

Our response to terror should be thoughtfully analytical and should not, as in the past, be reflexive or reactionary.

A relation ϕ that always holds between any object and itself is said to be reflexive; i.e., ϕ is reflexive if(∀x)ϕxx example: "is identical with").

As she recalled his instructions, "It must all be reflexive and unthinking, the sound of my taps telling me how I am doing, setting the pace and controlling the sequence".

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Opinions are reflexive things.

It is reflexive bigotry.

But much of this is reflexive activity.

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