reflexive

Much of it also seems reflexive, as if the governor is a puppet and his own ambition is pulling the strings.

Although I didn’t know it at the time, my reflexive retreats into abstract realms was the nursery in which my individuality was fostered as a teenager.

It becomes distorted, and is untethered from the reflexive and generative environment in which it was created, and can be used to serve quite different purposes.

Counterfactual information generation allows a conscious agent to detach itself from the environment and perform non-reflexive behavior, such as waiting for three seconds before acting.

Taking a self-reflexive turn, she argued that high school oratory had become a race to one-up competitors with ever more harrowing personal stories.

In recent Republican congressional primaries, the rank-and-file has voted “no” to reflexive interventionism.

There have been reflexive attempts to associate some recent mass shooters with the right-wing politics of incitement.

It would be a reflexive resort to ideological self-satisfaction.

There is a history here that makes a reflexive negative response to a military coup understandable.

So I now have this sort of reflexive flinch when the jobs report comes out, as I half-expect a big blow to fall.

The termination uba is that of the third person of reflexive verbs.

The intransitive form derives from the transitive by dropping a generalized, customary, reflexive or cognate object.

Alteration to hine would give a common reflexive use, rejoices; comp.

Her indignation at the woman who had supplanted her swept over her with a reflexive flush of heat.

I think I put out my hand, or made some other reflexive gesture to stop her, but either she failed to notice or misunderstood.