Word: reflexively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then, in a reflex that testifies to the toll that brutality has taken on this once most gracious and cosmopolitan city, Vahida apologized for her anger. "I no longer trust anyone or believe anything," she said. "I just don't have any hope left...
...certainly getting a lot of help from the tattered and divisive Democratic Party. The party's congressional wing defines itself by confronting the Republicans almost as a reflex, while Clinton tends toward conciliation. Morris' growing influence is sure to exacerbate that split, even though his career makes clear that he is able--and willing--to argue any side of a political issue in order to win, a telling trait his buddy Clinton has also been accused of possessing. At the same time, no amount of accommodation seems to placate Southern conservatives. Last week Congressman Nathan Deal of Georgia became...
...reflex. House Speaker Newt Gingrich uses the term elite as an all-purpose epithet, meaning little more than someone or something he doesn't like. Just since the election he has applied the term to directors of art museums ("self-selected elites using your tax money and my tax money to pay off their friends"), to the Bipartisan Entitlement Reform Commission ("driven by elite values"), to people who send E-mail messages supportive of President Clinton ("urbanites make up the Internet elite," according to a Gingrich spokesman) and, of course, time and again, to the "elite media" or "media elite...
This was the year when Puritanism (the oldest ghostly American mind-body reflex) went into business with advanced post-Modernist integrated id-sleaze. That was it: the American superego officially merged, at last, with the American id. Or anyway the two were fighting it out like cats in a gunnysack...
...stay-at-home, stand-up goalie, and more of a reflex goalie," she says. "I don't play like Tripp [Tracy, men's goalie]--that makes me nervous...