Sentence examples for reflex of a from inspiring English sources

Maybe it's the reflex of a body feeling that a building's collapsing on it.

"The condemnation of his book is an automatic reflex of a generation raised after Hitler," he said.

This is the Great Man theory of politics, a collective reflex of a moneyed oligarchy that has its hands on the levers of power.

She did not notice what happened to the man next door; the reflex of a mother set her in motion toward her children.

I dug my elbow into the Associated Press man next to me and said, 'Look, George, human life fighting to preserve itself.' " Only later did Mr. Ely learn that the breathing had only been the involuntary reflex of a corpse.

Early on, we meet the tailor's widow shortly after the mysterious explosion: "As Mrs Nakamura stood watching her neighbour, everything flashed whiter than any white she had ever seen … the reflex of a mother set her in motion towards her children.

"I drink my wine, yet there is always that reflex of an investment," he said.

It's a gag reflex of an utterance, a verbally administered emetic.

The firing itself came with no preparation or a successor in place — the furious reflex of an intemperate mind.

Writing is a reflex of absence, an attempt to make contact with a distant, elusive reader.

Or was it a paltry reflex of greed, a desire to turn some small profit in my otherwise generous gesture?