Sentence examples for feel reflexive from inspiring English sources

Here, the allusions to Chuck Close, Frank Gehry, Leonardo DiCaprio et al. feel reflexive and tedious.

In the aggregate, though, as powerful as Means's work is, this kind of existential certainty can begin to feel reflexive and repetitive, a bit of an aesthetic tic.

Sure, Minaj still knows how to talk filthy in an array of beautiful voices, but here, she only ever sounds half-alert, making her nastiest boudoir brags feel reflexive and rote.

(He disparages the motives of some of the others involved in publishing the papers — at the Washington Post, with whom the Guardian shared a Pulitzer, and the Times — in a way that can feel reflexive).

The soft glow of the instrumentation frames Mr. Richardson's playing, which rarely feels reflexive or overworked.

I know colleagues who have said that they feel a reflexive obligation to defend fellow journalists when they are attacked.

This argument is not new, though some might feel a reflexive disdain for those whose best solution to any complex problem is "leaving them to get on with it".

"Besides looking for any excuse to inhale that irresistible puppy smell, I felt a reflexive urge to cover the top of Scout's soft head with kisses," she writes.

There's a little of that sadism on display here, but it doesn't rear its head until the very end, and when it does it feels almost reflexive, compulsive — as if Park himself had become so wrapped up in the yarn he was spinning that he suddenly realized, shoot, he hadn't sliced off anyone's fingers yet.

At times, though, Poirier leans a bit too heavily on what starts to feel like a reflexive seediness -- two of Ellis's acquaintances turn out to be prostitutes -- and rhythmic outbursts of violence.

The first few times you try any of these techniques you may feel awkward, but our reflexive aversion to feelings of awkwardness is one of the forces that causes us to fail to mark endings in the first place.