The story of the horndog scientist (Bill Murray) who, failing to seduce a young female subject during an experiment, devotes himself with particular zeal to the needs of a client (Sigourney Weaver) whom he wants to seduce isn't the expression of a director's point of view but, rather, the reflection of the unchallenged and unspoken assumptions of a place, a time, and, above all, a milieu.
The White House insisted that the Republican victories in the two races for governor were not referendums on President Obama but rather the reflections of "very local issues that didn't involve the president," as Robert Gibbs, the chief administration spokesman, told reporters.
But Steiner quickly assures us that by "grammar" he does not mean, well, grammar, but rather "the articulate organization of perception, reflection and experience, the nerve structure of consciousness when it communicates with itself and with others".
So someone would not see a cloaked object but rather the scene behind it - however, the reflections from the cloak would make that scene appear somewhat darkened.
Obama said the decision was "not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline" but rather a reflection of the fact that Congress had not given the State Department enough time to collect the information that was needed.
But Wall Street analysts and industry executives said this was hardly a rejection of the technology, but rather a reflection of the stiffening competition and relentless price pressure.
Other epistemic Evidentialists argue that doxastic norms arise not from analysis of the concept of belief, but rather from reflection on the fact that our belief-forming faculties are simply set up to be sensitive to evidence.
To begin, this is not meant to be a judgment on the film per se, but rather a reflection on the story that has torn at many of our hearts through either the book or, for more of the people I know, through the show and now the movie.
Others held that the frenzy was not the product of a media conspiracy, but rather a reflection of the public's curiosity and Hong Kong's competitive consumer-driven media market.
The assignment of Watson to the top strand is not arbitrary but rather a reflection of the horizontal drawing convention.
This is by no means the fault of the researchers and state or federal agencies conducting these investigations, but rather a reflection of the fundamental methodological problems pertaining to this type of activity.
