But when I discovered Jones, who was then a columnist for the Village Voice, I felt reflected and known, validated, in a way I never had before.
[Author's note: accurate.] Practical Magic wasn't even the best witch movie obviously in retrospect I would have preferred The Craft but it was one that I felt reflected my 13-year-old self.
Angelica Bastién, a culture writer who identifies as a black Latina, told me she was "always attracted to the teen movies I felt reflected the grotesque, contradictory, and exhilarating reality of being a teen girl".
I wasn't interested in writing another Nigerian novel about war, another African novel about family or loving each other; I wanted something new and something I felt reflected the second generation of Nigerians, and so I kind of brought all of those wants into writing this book.
Yet I feel this reflects a wider issue.
I feel this reflects what the couple or the couple's parents could afford.
Contradicting himself later, Puccini said: "For this drama I have composed music that, I feel sure, reflects the spirit of the American people and particularly the strong, vigorous nature of the West.
My impulse to be generous is a result of how deeply grateful I feel and reflects how much I am constantly receiving from my life.
After nearly ten years as a dancer with the New York City Ballet, it's not very often that I see a drawing (let alone an animation) that I feel effectively reflects the form, aesthetic, movement, impetus, momentum, and emotion of a trained dancer moving through space.
The sentence that touched me the most in the entire piece on Diogenes was this: "Still he was loved by the Athenians". The idea of this sentence is, I feel, beautifully reflected in Raphael's fresco.
