Sentence examples for reflexive resistance from inspiring English sources

I understand the reflexive resistance to having your negative beliefs disrobed and your sense of self dressed down.

"Most people don't like to be told what's best for them," says Bruce Willis in a sly, brilliant, single-scene cameo, and the suspicion that the movie is doing just that may provoke some reflexive resistance.

We hope sound arguments will overcome the opposition from union leaders who have already decided that reform won't work — and seem to be threatening, by their reflexive resistance, to make sure it doesn't.

For a small-state party that once acknowledged, with its "nudge" unit, the reflexive resistance to heavy-handed paternalism, these incursions into Gwyneth Paltrow territory by politicians whose contacts with civilians are of the strictly anthropological variety are one of the clearest signs yet that it has utterly lost its way.

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.

Despite a reflexive resistance to organized spirituality, I was open to the idea.

The union hardens an image of reflexive, intemperate resistance while facing a steely politician with high approval ratings who devours news cycles.

Indeed, the refusal of Congress to raise the gas tax is the ultimate expression of how reflexive and irrational the resistance to taxes has become.

It is often used by Bourdieu and indicates the potential his conception of sociologically reflexive critique has for resistance and emancipation.

Specifically, trigeminal stimulation results in a reflexive increase in airway resistance and is characterized by an increase in the period of initial expiration.

Resistance to this idea will be reflexive.