The phrase "are only reflected" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how certain aspects or qualities are shown or represented, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The emotions of the characters are only reflected in their actions and dialogue throughout the play."
Alternatives: "are merely shown" or "are simply represented".
It's a big and paradoxical picture, a portrait not of the king and queen – who are only reflected in the painting in a bright mirror at the back of a high, deep room – but of the anxious court mirrored in their – our – eyes.
Changes in the data along the associated first and last right singular vectors (or more generally along any two right singular vectors whose ratio of corresponding singular values is large) are only reflected in measurement changes along the major left singular vector - which poses challenges in achieving sufficient accuracy with respect to the minor singular vectors.3.3
The views of those interviewed are only reflected where they are quoted.
And yet, despite their ubiquity, these women are only reflected in 1 or 2% of the images we see in the media.
The room is wallpapered with floral print like Persephone's flowers, but they are only "reflected in mirrors, as images of images twice removed from reality".
Therefore, our results suggest that Spiroplasma protects the fly against wasp-induced mortality, but that the effects of this protection are only reflected in differential fly survival during the pupa-to-adult transition.
If the police can be too quick to label, Detective Gonzalez says, they are only reflecting society.
All the while they chant their conscience-easing mantra: We are only reflecting society's norms.
"You are only reflecting your own desire to be a controversialist," he said to loud Tory cheers.
The idea that Europe's leaders bear little responsibility for the "boat people", and, in deciding to do little about them, are only reflecting the wishes of the populations they serve, is a myth.
Such work may seem to stretch art's immunity plea — its argument that "we are only reflecting the brutality of the world, and your complicity in it" — past the breaking point, conveniently projecting its own exploitive tendencies onto the viewer.
