"need for reflection" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used in any context where a person needs time to pause and thoughtfully consider a situation. For example: "She recognized the need for reflection before making a final decision on the project."
President Obama has also spoken of the need for "reflection, not retribution" over these crimes.
Mr Straw said: "It obviously spells thoughtfulness and a need for reflection".
If the Rubin and its art have a message, Ms. Bernhard suggested, it might be the need for reflection and peace in an age of electronic distraction.
Just tell me whatever comes to your mind.'ItIt feels like death,' said Bobby, never overly troubled with the need for reflection and seemingly sensing the same premonition himself.
When I ask Maddy (12) which has been her favourite family trip ever, she says, without any need for reflection, "Walking in Slovakia – the Tatra mountains – all those days we did going from hut to hut".
There was no need for reflection (Trninic, Reinholz, Howison, & Abrahamson, 2010).
But the solitude needed for reflection and attention to craft was the one thing the king of the literary jungle could not command.
The needs for reflection were assessed in an ex ante evaluation.
Members of the ICAP acknowledged that further discussion is needed for reflection and maturation of this issue.
Positive contributions of social sciences, which are needed for reflection, analysis and transformative knowledge in the sustainable development of energy policies, are introduced in the third chapter.
Here one must hasten to add, of course, that what was constructed were not the objects of first-order discourse (tables, chairs, electrons and black holes) but the theoretical terms and concepts needed for reflection about the cognitive enterprise of science (ideas like evidence and its degrees and presuppositions).
