Shakespeare's frequent juxtaposition of royalty in one scene with plebeians in the next reflects a very British way of looking at society.
Divine words resonating from one age to the next, reflecting from event after event, and echoing from interpretation to interpretation, tossed back and forth from sage to sage - and what, in the end, do we learn?
HONG KONG — The International Monetary Fund raised its outlook Thursday for growth in Asia for this year and next, reflecting the region's rapid rebound from the depths of the global downturn in recent months.
The orchestra's musicians have agreed to forgo wages increases for the past two seasons and agreed to a wage freeze for this season and next, reflecting the same straitened circumstances experienced by many orchestras around the country.
The number and form of the spirit-beings varied from one community to the next and reflected the concerns and consequences of life in a desert environment.
Because comparisons were made within the same school, the student population was likely similar from one year to the next, as reflected in our demographic findings.
But the next day, reflecting the seriousness of the situation, 77-year-old Emperor Akihito gave a rare televised address to express his "deep concern".
The next day, reflecting official Catholic reaction, he wrote: "abortion flak -- 3 Cardinals -- Vatican -- Rochester wires!" The last item referred to a telegram sent by the Mayo Clinic.
Hutcheson, who invented the phrase "the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers," which the utilitarians made so much of in the next century, reflects the peculiarly sunny temperament of the Scottish moralists.
Lyons isn't a comedian who dwells on any one subject for too long; instead, her rapid-fire delivery allows her to shoot from one great comic nugget to the next, perhaps reflecting the scattergun impulses of her own mind.
