Word: reflexively
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...have really been locked out of the animal paradise of unthinking natural reflex...
Every hour on the hour, all pretenses at nonchalance are dropped, and Israelis turn on their radios to a menacing reality. It is perhaps the one most familiar sound in the country, and one quickly develops the conditioned reflex of silence upon hearing it: Three short beeps in quick succession: the silence: and then, "Today is Thursday, January 21, good morning, and this is the news from Menashe Harel. Today on the Suez Canal, five soldiers were killed when their jeep..." And so on: on and on. The hostilities are never distant or impersonal: the vulnerability of Israel and indeed...
...disavowal of liberal activism, Harlan could hardly be classified as a reflex conservative. He consistently joined the majority opinions requiring the dismantling of separate schools and public facilities. His espousal of First Amendment guarantees of free speech set him squarely against some of the Nixon Administration's law-and-order measures. In a case on electronic eavesdropping, he decried the possible loss of "that spontaneity -reflected in frivolous, impetuous, sacrilegious and defiant discourse -that liberates daily life...
...hundred students and faculty from Harvard would go to mass there, some clinging to the pre-Vatican II brand of Catholicism, trying to remain oblivious to the new directions being explored by Catholics, some attracted by the superb boys' choir, and others still attending mass as simply a reflex act one does on Sunday morning. The Phillips Brooks group and the regular St. Paul's Catholics had drifted further and further apart, becoming two separate communities, heralding the approaching fragmentation of the Catholic Church and the subsequent loss of its solidarity as one people...
...anyone imagine that the writer's name would have marquee pulling power, except for Portnoy's Complaint? Under the circumstances, it might have been cleverer to adapt the novel. After all, simulated masturbation poses no problem for the contemporary stage. However, it is almost a conditioned commercial reflex to exhume the early and lesser work of gifted...