"reflexive" is a perfectly acceptable word in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe an action which is done by the same subject that receives the action. For example, "John's reflexive decision to take the job surprised his family."
It is one thing to be universalist, anti-racist and pro-human rights when looking back, but it takes a more reflexive attitude to history to account for the structure of the present through past wrongs, and our place within that historical context.
Thus, the more the school children contradicted the only possible adult response to these role models (that of reflexive disgust) the more they confirmed that the games are, already, generating near-spiritual fervour in the next generation.
That is a recipe, as Mr Lugar put it, for "an unrelenting partisan mindset" marked by "reflexive votes for a rejectionist orthodoxy and rigid opposition to the actions and proposals of the other party".
I've now covered her coverage of our coverage of their coverage, and this sentence is reflexive coverage of my coverage.
The way such events are reported in the press no longer hints at a reflexive blaming of external forces.
There is a verb for the English phrase "to get lost in thought", which is made from the verb for "to think", the prefix za meaning behind or beyond, and the reflexive suffix.
His instinct is admirable: to dilute what in Oslo he called the world's "reflexive suspicion" of the superpower.
So reflexive did American "tin cupping" become that, shortly after the fall of the Berlin wall, one envoy to Riyadh was instructed to ask the Saudis to buy tonnes of surplus Polish ham and give it to Russia, to help wean those countries from communism.The end of the cold war brought a natural divergence of interests.
Racism is far more ubiquitous, deep-seated and reflexive in both China and Russia than it is in America or western Europe, precisely because events like those in Ferguson lead America to engage in a soul-searching national debate, while similar events in Russia and China generally lead either to no internal self-examination, or to a hardening of racial animosities.
Since the most recent downturn, the economy has rebounded; unemployment is below average, while exports and house-price rises are above.Possibly more important, argues Mr Sullivan, Massachusetts's liberalism at least its best part lies in open-mindedness, a willingness to consider new ways of doing things, rather than in reflexive support of the left.
The danger is that America's health services have foisted upon them whatever the industry has to sell, rather than what is needed.In this section Broken links Dudley do-wrong How to become politics-proof Heads in the cloud Raging bulls The last gasp I, robot-manager ReprintsAnother reason not to get too excited is the reflexive conservatism and technophobia of medical folk.
