The phrase "are not often reflected" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing ideas, feelings, or situations that are not frequently shown or expressed in a particular context.
Example: "The complexities of human emotions are not often reflected in mainstream media."
Alternatives: "are rarely shown" or "are seldom expressed".
Death and suffering are not often reflected in the preferred mirror of American life: the movies.
By Hilton Als August 12, 2008 Death and suffering are not often reflected in the preferred mirror of American life: the movies.
The muted eroticism they project is of a… Death and suffering are not often reflected in the preferred mirror of American life: the movies.
Although clergy of different faiths and races continue to build bridges of dialogue in one of the nation's most religiously and culturally diverse metropolitan areas, such efforts are not often reflected in the daily lives of most congregations and their members, he said.
He refers to the 6-foot-3 forward Willie Veasley as his team's Shane Battier, the Houston Rockets player whose role as a facilitator is not often reflected in box scores but has made him a darling of the statistical set.
And what is interesting to me about books -- which, again, I feel is not often reflected in the current reviewing culture -- is that books should be treated as these inherently interdisciplinary objects; they spill out into cultural commentary, politics, movies, science, history, etcetera, as well as into the books that inspired them.
During my teenage years — most of which I spent living and working on a quarter-section, corn-and-soybeans, last-of-a-dying-breed Iowa family farm — I began to notice that my particular reality was not often reflected on screen.
While incubators have helped launch countless startups and helped expose many to opportunities in the tech sector, the diverse nature of American cities is not often reflected in the tech industry.
Mental strength isn't often reflected in what you do.
It's an important project, memorializing a part of recent rap history that isn't often reflected upon, even if, as a text, it spends too much time redundantly pointing out that cover art exists to grab consumers' attention and that comic books and movie posters influenced covers of tapes with titles like Evil Empire & DJ Fletch Present The Hangover and Jay Z Starring as Batman.
Palo Alto and the surrounding demesnes — mostly sunny, rich, and liberal — are not often thought to reflect the plight of the great American middle.
