Sentence examples for entirely reflexive from inspiring English sources
If the book embraces, at times, some extraordinarily tired conceits--most notably, the reflexive and didactic second-person addresses--this can be forgiven because these conceits are, as the faithful reader soon learns, themselves entirely reflexive.
Chris's behaviors were entirely reflexive, he said; they were produced by his brainstem, which regulates basic functions like breathing and body temperature, not by his cortex, the region responsible for higher-order thinking.
Some of the House's votes have seemed entirely reflexive, like a 240-to-169 thumbs down for a sensible amendment requiring regulators to seek independent advice on drilling safety from an organization not affiliated with the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry's lobby.
But this heartening shift seems to go hand in hand with a darker, disturbing trend: an entirely unexamined, reflexive contempt for and anger against women who are or seem privileged.
Show business is Ms. Griffin's life, so there's no reason that her show shouldn't be entirely self-reflexive: a reality series about the making of a reality series.
The statement seems purely reflexive.
Such relations are said to be reflexive.
His suspicion of authority is reflexive.
But responsibility is transitive, not reflexive.
