Sentence examples similar to self protective from inspiring English sources

Immensely self-protective.

Is his demurral self-protective?

"It is a self-protective reaction".

She had reason to feel self-protective.

In hospitals, self-protective bureaucracy multiplies.

"It was a self-protective, healthy instinct".

But in the end he did the self-protective thing.

Even cold, hard self-awareness comes with self-protective limitations.

Orff's self-protective reflex can certainly be understood.

He smiled in a shy way that seemed self-protective.

It was, he says, a self-protective thing.