Inshallah has become a reflex, a bit of a linguistic tic that has attached itself to nearly every moment, every question, like the word "like" in English.
I closed my eyes for a moment — a reflex that sometimes happens when I need to gather my courage.
The bladders were manually expressed twice daily up to two weeks post-injury, until the moment that reflex voiding started.
Great writer that he was, Camus placed hope in the calming power of language carefully used, and of reason; in the preface, he asks his readers to "set their ideological reflexes aside for a moment and just think".
On a bad night Romney speaks gibberish, but on a good night he is carefully honing his reflexes for a killer moment or two when he plays the Clinton to Obama's Bush the Elder.
When he exiles his youngest, best-loved daughter, Cordelia (a sullen Ms. Wilson) because she isn't sufficiently effusive in her praise of him, it feels like a petulant, conditioned reflex, the caprice of a moment that he might later reverse.
You will need reflexes to stop shooting the moment the zombie dies, you don't want to waste ammo.
At that moment you need the reflexes of a Foyt, Andretti or Senna to recover.
The premier added: "I understand mayors who, in this moment of tension, have reflexes in search of a solution, avoiding trouble with public order.
The purpose of the startle reflex is to make us vigilant and, for moments (during enactment of the reflex itself and immediately afterwards), it makes us hypervigilant.
