Sentence examples for jerk way from inspiring English sources

"We should actually remember that sometimes you shouldn't react in a knee jerk way but allow changes that are under way to bed in".

"It's wrong to be afraid of the future in a knee-jerk way," Mr. Schreier said.

Looking back, Mr. Gondry realized that sometimes he resisted his friend's suggestions in a knee-jerk way.

"Instead of lashing out at Democrats in a knee-jerk way, we hope House Republicans will finally stand up to the Tea Party and resume the negotiations that had seemed so full of promise".

Mr. Bush's lawyers are continuing to examine the flurry of last-minute announcements and regulations issued by the Clinton administration, which Mr. Card said today would not be rejected in a "knee-jerk" way.

In the end the film owes less to the show that inspired it than to "The Blair Witch Project," a fiction pretending to be fact, and to "The Truman Show," with its knee-jerk way of making television cameras the villains.

He says the challenge is to try to recognise the feelings, even if they are unpleasant, without reacting to them in a knee-jerk way.

This is the root of a habit, a "knee-jerk" way of reacting in thought or action.

Periods of optimism can bring more people back into the job market, hence the sort herky-jerk way the rate has traveled on its relatively downward trajectory.

By underscoring the contradictory, often knee-jerk ways we encounter the heroes and villains of our culture, Klosterman illustrates the passionate but incomplete computations that have come to define American culture — and maybe even American morality.

He's kind of a jerk that way.