Sentence examples for reflexive suspicion from inspiring English sources

So is a reflexive suspicion toward the enterprise of biotechnology.

At times, this is joined by a reflexive suspicion of America, the world's sole military superpower.

His instinct is admirable: to dilute what in Oslo he called the world's "reflexive suspicion" of the superpower.

Gordon Brown and David Blunkett were notable examples of Labour ministers who tended to view officials with reflexive suspicion.

Evans said if the government adopted a posture of reflexive suspicion about all Chinese investment propositions, "therein lies madness in terms of any relationship".

Eyes narrowed with a reflexive suspicion, she spins her lines like batons, lending even the coarsest remark — "I shouldn't have called her a cunt; she's more of a bitch," say — the bite of a Noël Coward witticism.

South Africa — 79 percent black, 9.5 percent white and 11.5 percent Asian or mixed race — is the ground zero chosen by history and geography for the dilemma of otherness, the violent puzzle of race with its reflexive suspicions and repetitive eruptions.

This other Mr Aliev denies the existence of flagrant human-rights abuses and cannot overcome a reflexive post-Soviet suspicion of opposition, or the belief that only overwhelming election victories count.

His suspicion of authority is reflexive.

Among the original members of the Arte Povera movement of the 1960s — literally translated as "poor art," partly because the work sometimes employed humble, even ephemeral materials — Mr. Calzolari, who trained as a painter, distinguished himself through his deep suspicion of the avant-garde's reflexive rejection of the past.

"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.