Sentence examples for occasion of reflection from inspiring English sources

The event in 1981 was "quite an august gathering" and a "time of tremendous emotion," said Rivkah Slonim, an educator at Chabad in Binghamton, N.Y., who attended the Crown Heights ceremony at 17. "It becomes an occasion of reflection when I think of where I was then and where I am now, and how the world has changed so radically and how the world will change in 28 years," she said.

The paintings of Frida Kahlo, discussed in "Topic Two: Pollock and Kahlo," become an occasion for reflection on the trials of pregnancy, female suffering and male infidelity.

The anniversary of the Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy and the freezing of the credit markets that followed is an occasion for reflection.

In both productions he often seems at a loss when the short periods of activity and transition are over, and there is occasion for reflection and feeling.

But the centenary of the genocide, in 2015, may be more than just an occasion for reflection.

Football, he writes, "awakens within us deep recesses of emotion, occasions for reflection, reasons to believe".

My current state of reflection has been occasioned by the entry of concepts related to libertarianism into the mainstream consciousness.

Several college campuses, professional associations, social movements, and political parties are marking the occasion with a series of reflections and demonstrations.

However, several informants reported that the feedback's overview of chronic patient populations had become a new occasion for this kind of reflections.

Processes of reflection within the organisation varied according to professions; some had embedded models and specific reflective spaces, although on occasion these had stopped due to resource pressures, and there were some informal processes at a peer level.

That is an apotheosis deserving of reflection.