Sentence examples for reflection alone from inspiring English sources

The Backslider was born out of lived theological prejudice and unease, then philosophical and personal puzzlement that abstract philosophical reflection alone failed to make intelligible.

Much of the time, he has done this reflection alone, he said, but a lot of it has been with his wife of 38 years, Jackie, and their five children, focusing on "what we must do to continue to serve," he said.

Fortified by culture and ensconced in the unconscious, such prejudice cannot be dispelled through rational reflection alone (Meyers 1994).

So these critics conclude that apriori reflection alone cannot justify verdicts about the applicability of this type of concept.

Given Rationality, this entails that Lois is irrational, which is untenable, as Lois cannot correct her mistake through pure reflection alone.

So long as it is possible to interpret results as consistent with a theory determined by rational reflection alone, those results cannot weigh at all against the theory.

Some bright reflections alone aren't enough to confirm liquid water, however.

While relative newcomers are desperate for a job, those working full time describe the exhaustion that results from churning out endless material and having no time for considered reflection, let alone time off.

As Illan Rua Wall argues, the cathartic defeat of Fianna Fáil in February's election ensured that "indignation burnt itself out at the ballot box", with little public reflection, let alone mobilisation, on the possibility of confronting the new government's effortless adoption of austerity.

Toward the end of the main fracturing stage, the fracture zone extends upward and also extends in width, although we cannot determine the dimensions of the fracture from the reflection amplitudes alone.

Take young Jadin from the "outer boulevards", whose "hunched shoulder... looks as if it were still lugging along the laundry basket", or Braque, the spirited impresario and one of Renée's confidants (a wonderful foil for her bouts of self-reflection), who "alone in his dressing-room... improvised an extraordinary monologue of a moonstruck person defending himself against spectres".