A historically minded viewer might wonder about a young artist doing such seemingly insular, self-reflexive things during the peak years of war in Southeast Asia and sociopolitical turmoil at home.
Chalmers acknowledged that would require cultural change and a step back from "reflexive opposition to things".
Our reflexive affinity to things that appear lifelike, or like life, but have never been alive at all, is not dissimilar to a child with a comfort doll, half-aware that the doll is a surrogate and overriding the fact.
A relation R is reflexive if each thing stands in R to itself.
"Cheating contractors are the target, but it's become a bit of a circus because of this reflexive attitude that blames things on race when my bill is really talking about other things," he argues.
This was a speech tailored to the tastes of Miami's old guard, for whom the only acceptable Cuba policy is a reflexive opposition to all things Castro.
I don't want the girls to develop a reflexive tendency to grab at things just to have things.
To conjugate a reflexive verb, the first thing you'll have to do is to learn how to conjugate it depending on the subject pronoun.
Here Mr. McCarthy answers in full the reflexive question, How were these things made?
Sucking it down is a reflex, our first reflexive gratification.
