Sentence examples for a reflex that from inspiring English sources

It's a reflex that, as these photographs suggest, may be passing into history.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

I closed my eyes for a moment — a reflex that sometimes happens when I need to gather my courage.

In its basic, most primitive form, scratching is a reflex that is controlled by the spinal cord and requires no input from the brain.

Tony Blair's response was to pay tribute to William Wilberforce, a reflex that mirrors perfectly the attitude of the entertainment world.

Sneezing usually occurs in response to nasal irritation, triggering a reflex that expels air at speeds of around 150 kilometres an hour.

The 'photic sneeze reflex' is therefore not a classical reflex that occurs only at a brainstem or spinal cord level but, in stark contrast to many theories, involves also specific cortical areas.

Or I'd think they had a tic, and then I'd feel bad for calling someone a douchenozzle when really it was a muscle reflex that was out of their control.

These pacing behaviors result in a pattern of vaginocervical stimulation that triggers a neuroendocrine reflex that is important for pregnancy to result from insemination.

Pain evokes a withdrawal reflex that leads to retraction and is therefore a reaction trying to protect an endangered part of the body.

The show instead illustrates the process of linguistic abuse, in which objects are first dismembered, then disenfranchised and then used to stimulate an atavistic reflex that can compel a people in myriad directions, including that of collective folly.