"If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost," Mr. Obama said.
If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost.
Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let's use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together … If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate – as it should – let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost.
President Obama: "If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate -- as it should -- let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost.
While this exercise clearly prompts reflection in students rotating through pediatrics, it is a very small part of the clerkship curriculum and an even smaller component of the overall medical school experience.
"We hope this series of events prompts reflection in all parties involved, but also onlookers.
A headline in the Times said earnestly, "A Woman's False Accusation Prompts Reflection".
Like all of the show's images, the scene prompts reflection while maintaining a remoteness.
But the popular Kahlo exhibition — a blockbuster for the NYBG — prompts reflection on those artists who unearth inspiration in their gardens.
Henry's misadventures abroad awaken his conscience, and the view from the third world prompts reflection on the life he left behind (as it turns out, there are worse fates than having a dull, well-paying job).
"The one good thing about being shut in a coal hole is that it prompts reflection," Winterson observes, inspiring the question always asked of writers like her, who appear to have transcended misfortunes that might have crippled or silenced another.
