Words, like reflexes, have been scribbled with chalk on the pavement: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité." At night, a young guitarist plays under the towering statue of Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic, who holds an olive branch in one hand and a tablet with the declaration of human rights in the other.
The word "border" triggers reflex panic.
It is characteristic of Steiner's procedure to complicate the anxiety by learned allusion: "Today, in Western orientations -- observe the muted presence of morning light in that word -- the reflexes, the turns of perception, are those of afternoon, of twilight.
In other words increased cough reflex sensitivity is not a primary feature of cough variant asthma and ICS does not affect the sensitivity.
It suffices to attach the prefix "neo" to almost any word to produce a reflex reaction of hostility.
He is a self-taught cook, with a big emphasis on comfort food, baking and making food seem part of an easy, aspirational, Antipodean – sorry, this next word makes my gag reflex kick in – "lifestyle".
Once we disjoin the words in this unreflectively reflex conjunction, we will make better progress with thinking about what is required for the living of good individual lives in good societies.
This sets off, in Buford's words, "some kind of Neanderthal reflex" in the viewer.
Unsettling, you could insist, because it has erupted at a time of limited European economic perspectives, national leaders with weak public support, and, mostly from the left, reflex rebuttals using words like Nazism or racism to condemn what is, in many respects, a new frankness.
The reflex to type a word into www.m-w.com is often prompted by the desire to understand an event and its context.
