Sentence examples for powers of reflection from inspiring English sources

You could be, in Kierkegaard's words, brought to a standstill by your own powers of reflection.

Santoro managed it by breaking what is widely considered the biggest serve in tennis six times and by befuddling Isner with his blend of skills in a match played at a deliberate pace that seemed better suited to Santoro's powers of reflection than Isner's power.

In contrast, non-human animals, because they lack the powers of reflection necessary for consciousness of their own affections, do not possess a moral sense.

Downtime is an opportunity for the brain to make sense of what it has recently learned, to surface fundamental unresolved tensions in our lives and to swivel its powers of reflection away from the external world toward itself.

Consider, for example, the power of reflection.

Ms. Getz wants to know whether teachers continually challenge themselves, have the power of reflection, make intellectual connections and are curious about the art of teaching.

Locke himself acknowledged an innate power of "reflection" (awareness of one's own ideas, sensations, emotions, and so on) as a means of exploiting the materials given by experience as well as a limited realm of a priori (nonexperiential) knowledge, which he nevertheless regarded as "trifling" and essentially empy of content (e.g., "soul is soul" and "every man is an animal").

As the faculty of reason develops and grows, however, the power of imagination from which the earliest forms of human society grew weakens and gives way finally to the power of reflection; the cognitive powers of human beings gain ascendance over their creative capacity, and reason replaces poetry as the primary way of understanding the world.

It uses the power of reflection to trick the eye into thinking a 2D display looks 3D.

With the power of reflection and time passed, I'm still not sure that was the right call.

Captain Hindsight's power of reflection does end up coming in handy, however, for letting "South Park" writers give their two cents on the Brett Favre sexting scandal.