Their defection was the product of intellectual reflection; Brock's was the result of harrowing experience.
It's an intellectual reflection, even things as simple as remembering the steps.
On the one hand, it is allegorical and didactic, directed toward intellectual reflection and theological meditation.
But under Benjamin's eye, the faded arcade became something new again: an intellectual reflection.
There are some theoretical issues around what "improvement" and "suffering" mean, but the answer comes mostly not from intellectual reflection but empirical observation.
"It is an intellectual reflection upon the fact that God constantly creates the universe, and that is a basic principle of faith," he said of Birchat HaChammah.
Even though Mr. Jones does not physically appear in the piece, his oratorical presence — part naked self-revelation, part intellectual reflection, part bombast — is channeled through Mr. Dobson, a tall, handsome man impeccably dressed in suit, tie and pocket handkerchief.
As a college instructor of philosophy -- a subject rooted in intellectual reflection -- I find that my students have great difficulty in stepping back from the moment and concentrating on anything else but their next text message or other technologically induced instant connection.
I read and reread it throughout my late twenties, dazzled by its range of settings and characters and language, by the tight construction of its web-like plot, the effortless moves between inner life, intellectual reflection, and dramatic action, by the unremitting tension.
Hence, for Kant, religious belief finds its proper seat not in intellectual reflection but in our practical lives.
