Although Fermor completed his journey before Morris took up her pen, he shares her erudition and capacity for reflection.
In the late nineteen-fifties, a new class of languages was developed to give computers the capacity for reflection.
This is a moment at which anyone with the capacity for reflection should stop and wonder what we are doing.
It's about us, the human animal, the strange amphibious creature that swims in nature yet is afflicted with a capacity for reflection that transcends nature.
The alternative tycoons mooted for the pilot, Mark Cuban and Richard Branson, have some capacity for reflection and shame: surely they couldn't have fronted a world that rewarded people who were so transparently incompetent and unpleasant.
With new trade disputes coming thick and fast, he adds, "the danger is that the next director general will be overrun by disputes, and that will overwhelm the capacity for reflection".
The beautiful or odd thing is that the best metaphor for this process is, well, a hurricane: a slow spiraling build of hot air begins to circulate, gathering in new voices as it grows, until at last it is a spiraling, wheeling, dousing storm which drowns and floods our capacity for reflection.
It comes from drawing out (e-ducare, Mr Clarke) their capacity for reflection, from helping them to develop skills of inquiry and criticism, allowing them to recognise what they need to know, to find it out, to evaluate it critically, and to apply it.
It is the capacity for reflection that makes us capable of moral sentiments and judgments.
A capacity for reflection and understanding enables one to work toward integrity even if it does not ensure that one achieves an ideal of integrity.
