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The normal esophagus responds immediately with a reflexive peristaltic contraction, a phenomenon called secondary peristalsis.
Equally, one might regard it as a polemic against the reflexive association of aesthetics with false consciousness.
The reflexive hostility that some of his defenders have shown toward his accuser therefore exhibits no fidelity to the presumption of innocence.
It does so by offering a set of methodologically reflexive, culturally nuanced and socially-located studies of gendered knowledges and practices.
The ultimate reflexive investigation of investigation occurs in that branch of philosophy known as epistemology, the theory of knowledge.
In addition, a discursive analysis of conflict invites therapists to be more intentional, reflexive, and socially responsible in their work.
I'm trying not to think too hard about the reflexive illogic of the last two sentences.
It doesn't pay to get caught in reflexive habit patterns when you are moving through the complex variables that make up life.
Sometimes it's conscious, sometimes reflexive, but the basic trend is not in doubt.
They're riven with anti-Americanism, it's soaked to the bone in Canada, and it's often reflexive and knee-jerk.
According to neurologists, such reflexive activities are neither conscious nor signs of awareness.
I jumped at least two feet in the air in a completely involuntary, reflexive response.
They are reflexive supporters of the underdog just as the Right reflexively supports the powerful.
Most grammarians today are careful not to equate the middle voice with the English reflexive.
The use of the French reflexive in the present indicative stresses the innate auto-referentiality of Bugul's narrative.
The final important technique used by practitioners of reflexive spirituality to make meaning is reflexivity.
The graphically crisp, retro lettering style adds a whiff of nostalgia to this evocation of language's reflexive capacity.
For one thing, this is a whiskery, reflexive old incantation of the Right, that long ago lost any very vivid meaning.
Soldiers would then execute reflexive fire and close combat assault courses that included urban scenarios, IEDs and moving target arrays.
Sometimes, these beliefs are so quick and reflexive that they're automatic, but they still shape our behavior.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The intransitive form derives from the transitive by dropping a generalized, customary, reflexive or cognate object.
Farrell could not have said, later, whether his next move was planned or reflexive.
There are many non-trivial similarities and, consequently, non-trivial sets with similarity, such as reflexive sets and bounded metric spaces.
In fact, though my sister was a math instructor, and a good one, she had a reflexive disdain for intellectualism.
I'm not expecting all potential suitors to have a faultless, wide-ranging knowledge of past participles and reflexive pronouns or anything.
The termination uba is that of the third person of reflexive verbs.
The compound personal pronouns have two uses, reflexive and emphatic.
You can readily distinguish between the reflexive and the emphatic use.
The researchers said that their findings were an indication that prenatal exposure to testosterone predisposes people to adopt a more reflexive and less intuitive mindset.
The restrained fish were then tested for reflexive head movements, operculum movement, gag in response to throat stimulation, and vestibular-ocular response.
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