Sentence examples for reflexive acts from inspiring English sources

Amid the current death spiral/global warming/Harry Potter end of sports leagues, it would be useful for professional custodians to refrain from their reflexive acts of rebuttal and embrace their bottoms, so to speak.

But, yes, nursing one's anger is (almost certainly?) a bad idea, because of the long-term corrosive effects of anger on the angry, not to mention its tendency to cause reflexive acts of violence.

We consider an animal behaving in Phase 1 as least constrained, meaning that all behavioral options are open depending on the internal state and the external stimuli, and that an animal at the very end of Phase 2 is most strongly constrained, and virtually bound to finish the complete sequence by performing the mostly reflexive acts composing the consummatory phase 3.

That reflexive act of memory also colours the great political schisms of our times.

But filling out one position in his lineup card — catcher — has become almost a reflexive act.

But feeding someone who cannot eat, by any means necessary, is almost a reflexive act.

Officially, consciousness is a reflexive act in which I recognize my thoughts as my own and is therefore prior to memory, although Clarke sometimes writes "consciousness" when he should say "memory" (Thiel 2011, 231).

In his now-classic essay, "Habit," he argued that even our most complex acts are reflexive — "concatenated discharges in the nerve-centres".

Judging or predication in turn takes place in the topos of consciousness, which is further concretized as the universal or topos of reflexive self-awareness wherein acts of seeing, knowing, desiring and willing take place.

In some sense this was an act of reflexive class fealty.

It also dramatizes, with a kind of clarity I have rarely seen on film, how a society can change from within, how even well-intentioned authority can become cruel and corrupt, and above all, how a single, stubborn act of reflexive resistance can alter the shape of the world.