That's what intimate relationships are -- opportunities to see the aspects of yourself you can't see, don't want to see, or are intensely avoiding reflected back to you through another human being you are bound so closely to that you are compelled to look.
Her films may be reflective, but she would rather avoid reflecting on her work.
No art that is made can avoid reflecting its time and the particular political, social and economic circumstances of its making.
Ordinary Chinese, influenced by Confucian traditions that emphasize social harmony, are complicit in the silence, preferring to withhold blame for the violence and to avoid reflecting on personal responsibility.
He does try to keep a few basic taboos in sight: animals should always behave like animals, the Simpsons should avoid reflecting on their own celebrity and the Springfield universe should never become overtly cartoonlike.
The Devils had come a long way since Friday morning, when it took willpower for Zach Parise to avoid reflecting on how they were only a victory away from reaching the finals.
Rather than free time, our true desire may be to avoid reflecting on our actual condition.
Such materials could be, for example, made of precisely fabricated metallic cylinders several centimeters in diameter, or smaller than the wavelength of most audible sounds and therefore able to avoid reflecting them, Cummer says.
This polar distribution is as unsurprising as it would be hard to avoid, reflecting the distribution of financial resources, medical problems and expertise.
Respondents identified 'washing hands', avoidance of infected people, avoidance of crowded areas and mask wearing as strategies for avoiding infection, reflecting generally approved public health measures [ 17].
