Sentence examples for has become a reflex from inspiring English sources

The phrase has become a reflex for civilians who don't know what else to say.

Inshallah has become a reflex, a bit of a linguistic tic that has attached itself to nearly every moment, every question, like the word "like" in English.

Kowtowing to China has become a reflex for US film studios in search of a piece of booming – and lucrative – Chinese market.

This small physical adjustment makes Ms. Atkins look as cosmopolitan as an Erte fashion illustration, and it defines her character as someone for whom stylish affectation has become a reflex.

Kow-towing to China has become a reflex for actors, writers, producers, directors and studio executives in pursuit of the world's second-biggest box office, a trend set to intensify as China overtakes the US as the No 1 film market.

No longer does it serve its purpose to find out how someone is doing, but has become a reflex we resort to out of mindlessness.

As I was cooking, I realized that using black pepper had become a reflex.

It could prove the perfect tool for life-blogging times in which the recording of mundane events appears to have become a reflex action, as well as for those suffering increasingly manic lives.

Harry Reid, the party's leader in the Senate, complains, not without reason, that blocking legislation by filibuster has become a Republican reflex.

Congress could also overrule him, and, of course, in an age in which suing agencies has become a corporate reflex, someone will likely ask the courts to overturn his handiwork.

Deference to the divine has become a communal reflex, a compulsive habit, like the incessant honking of Egyptian cabdrivers — even when there are no other cars on the street.