Steve Rushin

Because I'm a bald, dim-witted writer, people think I couldn't possibly be her husband, so they occasionally confuse me for someone more glamorous. At O'Hare airport, a man asked if he could take Rebecca's photo. When I reflexively stepped away, he said, 'No, no, no. I want your picture too, Andre Agassi.

American Journalist

Eric Metaxas

Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those in the arts instead of reflexively pushing them away, can help bring the culture toward a renewed appreciation of goodness, truth, and beauty. And that is good for everyone.

American Author

Asha Rangappa

Reflexive control is a 'uniquely Russian' technique of psychological manipulation through disinformation. The idea is to feed your adversary a set of assumptions that will produce a predictable response: That response, in turn, furthers a goal that advances your interests.

American Lawyer

Jim Webb

The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

American Politician

Tom Malinowski

Over the years, increasing partisanship has led many members of Congress reflexively to speak in favor of any military action launched by presidents of their own party while withholding support to presidents of the opposing party.

Edward Sapir

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

American Scientist

Sonia Sotomayor

We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.

American Judge

Heather Mac Donald

Too many high-school graduates are reflexively going to college as it is, without a clue what they are doing there or how to take advantage of higher education.

American Editor

Kim Elizabeth

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.

American Writer

Richard Neal

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

Reflexive words imply the subject does something to themselves, not others.

Self-Action

Ensure reflexive pronouns agree with their subject in number and gender.

Verb Agreement

Reflexives vary across languages; what's reflexive in one may not be in another.

Language Specific

Some cultures have formal and informal reflexives; understand the differences.

Cultural Usage

In math, reflexive relationships always include self-pairing, being consistent.

Mathematical Consistency

Reflexive relations suggest an element is always related to itself; a fundamental identity.

Implied Identity

In computing, a reflexive program can change parts of itself while running.

Self-Modifying Code

Reflexive computing provides flexibility, allowing for more sophisticated software.

Programming Flexibility

Reflexive thinking in psychology helps you understand your own mind better.

Self-Analysis

Use reflexive analysis to clarify feelings, creating emotional self-awareness.

Emotional Clarity

 Only after explaining to them how their stories might influence other women's lives, how they would become role models for their own community, did some agree. Seeking a collaborative and reflexive approach, I asked them to write their own words and ideas on prints of their own images.

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 so reflexively but I wasn't even aware that I was making them now this is what many introverts to you and it's our loss for sure but it is also our colleagues loss and our community's loss and at the risk of sounding grandiose it is the world's loss because when it comes to

The power of introverts...

 and we put forth fundamental principles of dance, reflexive dance capability, and we embedded that intelligence into the bionic limb. Bionics is not only about making people stronger and faster. Our expression, our humanity can be embedded into electromechanics.

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 and "myself" is a reflexive or intensive pronoun. So what does that reveal about where each word belongs? Let's start with the difference between subject and object. Imagine the subject as the actor in a sentence and the object as the word that is acted upon.

When to use "me",...

 so deeply divided -- when we live in a world in which cousins and aunts and uncles can't talk to one another, when we often live in separate and distinct news ecosystems, and when we reflexively and habitually malign and dismiss those with whom we disagree?

How to lead a...

 but stay if it's a good shell. And octopi that may originally curl up an injured arm to protect it will risk using it to catch prey. That suggests that these animals make value judgements around sensory input instead of just reacting reflexively to harm.

How do animals...

 even on a flat piece of paper, our brain reflexively creates the 3D concave or convex shape. Now for that creepy Lincoln upside down face. Faces trigger activity in areas of the brain that have specifically evolved to help us recognize faces.

How optical illusions...

 understand why you might think that because several decades ago when anti-gay forces first started to insist that being gay was a choice gay folks and gay rights groups sort of reflexively said no no no no no not a

On choosing to be gay PIPE...

 Our brains seem to reflexively associate beauty and good. And this reflexive association may be the biologic trigger for the many social effects of beauty. Attractive people receive all kinds of advantages in life.

How your brain decides...

 point of possible injury they don't send that distress signal so the central nervous system never sends out the reflexive signal to contract