Word: reflexively
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...this, Bridge keeps being asked to commit himself emotionally. Almost by reflex, he tries to reach his children, but his gestures end in general embarrassment. Though he loves his wife, he can think of nothing appropriate that might convey that fact except a new car and some shares of Kansas City Power & Light. Determined to retain his dignity, he moves carefully through the sunny meadow of middle-class affluence as through a dangerous minefield...
...hurt, distress or suffering-pain is pain. Half the medical textbooks say little about it, except for extreme and uncommon forms, and doctors learn correspondingly little about it in medical school. The great British physiologist Sir Charles Sherrington described pain as "the psychical adjunct of an imperative protective reflex." More simply, pain is what the victim perceives in his mind after he has touched a hot stove-and reflexively pulled back his hand to guard against further burn damage...
...buttock, the stab sends an impulse along the nerve fibers to the fourth lumbar vertebra (see diagram). Then the impulse travels upward and soon crosses over to the opposite side of the spinal cord for its journey toward the brain. Along the way it triggers an automatic reflex that causes the man to flinch and tighten his gluteal muscle. After the impulse reaches the thalamus, a major (and evolutionally ancient) junction box at the base of the brain, where it is perceived as pain, it proceeds to the cortex. Only in this, the newest and most advanced part...
...exert a substantial influence on the tone of West German life. That influence is likely to be unorthodox and refreshing. Though most West Germans worship the auto as a status symbol, Heinemann neither drives nor owns a car. Nor does he have the customary built-in German reflex about respect for authority. When a reporter inquired if he loved the state, Heinemann replied in a rare flash of annoyance, "I love no states. I love my wife. That's all." That just may be enough...
...mental effects of marijuana, Dr. Weil said he was doing further experiments but that his first experiments showed the frequent user had '100 per cent compensation" in standard, reflex, and coordination tests...