The phrase "a reflection of something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something serves as a representation or indication of another thing, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "Her artwork is a reflection of her inner thoughts and emotions."
Alternatives: "a representation of something" or "an indication of something".
Both of those things are about seeing something you've never seen before in a reflection of something familiar.
But their decline is also a reflection of something very positive -- namely, the entrance of gay Americans into mainstream culture over the last decade or so.
That does not prove causation particularly in the case of the noise test, where higher or lower glucose levels over an extended period might be a reflection of something else significant and pertinent about the person in question.
The question is, do you really have a Glassdoor problem, or is it a reflection of something going on inside the company?" Some people suspect that Glassdoor might make certain allowances to paying clients, but Hohman adamantly denied this.
But on the same page, another commentator, Larry Derfner, argued that while Israel's field hospital in Haiti is a reflection of something deep in the nation's character, "so is everything that's summed up in the name of 'Gaza.' " He wrote: "It's the Haiti side of Israel that makes the Gaza side so inexpressibly tragic.
"I was here at the birth of the rave scene," he said of Los Angeles, "and the entire time, everything that we were into, that we were trying to promote, was always a reflection of something else from another city — house from Chicago, or techno from Detroit, or acid house and progressive house from the U.K., drum and bass — everything was always an import.
Update: Some Photoshop wizard has unwrapped the curvature of the plate (seriously) to find a reflection of… something?
Wheatley and her colleagues used standard statistical techniques to measure whether neural patterns were a so-called independent variable, not a mere reflection of something else (such as a demographic variable).
At both sites, they also observed a subtle acoustic "anomaly," a faint reflection of something in the water that follows the contours of the seafloor below.
For Malick, this vision of a universal consciousness, the reflection of something like the mind in all existence, is the very basis for science including social science as well as of art.
That could be a reflection of rising college costs, something that the Pew study didn't take into consideration in this study.
