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• n  a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
• s  without volition or conscious control
  sneezing is reflexive
• s  referring back to itself

• She didn't know it at the time, but all around her, others were filled with the same reflexive incredulity.
• And while we journalists often characterize the show as being about politics, it's really about us: the show has nailed the reflexive media impulse to rationalize conventional .
• In every crisis, her reflexive response was to blame others, rail against enemies and stonewall, unless called before a grand jury, at which point she would be overcome by short .

• reflexive pronoun
• automatic
• reflex
• self-referent

News & Articles

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• A Firebrand Media Publication
  Firmly convinced of the superiority of my driving skills, I’m a lousy passenger. Drivers generally put up with my involuntary gasps, Vulcan death grip on the grab handle, reflexive tromping on a nonexistent brake pedal, and other emanations of distrust.
  July 11, 2013 - The Laguna Beach Independent
• Patchwork: Rode Trip
  by Chris Quilter   Firmly convinced of the superiority of my driving skills, I’m a lousy passenger. Drivers generally put up with my involuntary gasps, Vulcan death grip on the grab handle, reflexive tromping on a nonexistent brake pedal, and other emanations of distrust. I assume they also are convinced of the superiority of their [...] The post Patchwork: Rode Trip appeared first on Laguna ...
  July 11, 2013 - The Laguna Beach Independent
• Review: Designer handbags in the globby flesh at Gusford
  Reaction to Andrea Hasler's show at Gusford is inescapably reflexive at first--and not just one reflex is triggered, but two, the polar opposites of attraction and repulsion.
  July 6, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Kevin Warsh in 940 News
  Even if the economy were to weaken somewhat further, we should be inclined to resist expected, reflexive calls to trot out the hammer again,Warsh said, referring to the Fed's key interest rate.
• Barack Obama in Reuters Blogs (blog)
  Misperceptions, misinformation, opposition to US policies, and a belief that the United States acted unilaterally "fed an almost reflexive anti-Americanism which, too often, has served as an excuse for collective inaction," Obama said.
• President Bush in ABC News
  I have asked Congress to take several vital steps to address these issues,Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address. "Some members gave a reflexive partisan response."