Word: reflexivity
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...REFLEX by Dick Francis...
...Reflex, Francis...
...order to do their damage. The law knows this, which is why it distinguishes between assault and battery, yet labels assault a crime in itself. If the threat is made by a seasoned threatener like the Soviet Union, the threatened party will flinch as a matter of reflex or good judgment. That is the immediate effect, and the less enduring. A far deeper effect, and the one that tyrants crave, occurs when a victim is so cowed that he anticipates the threatener's desires, and behaves accordingly...
...from Pella, his birthplace and the center of his father's kingdom. It is based loosely on the 4th century portraits by Lysippos, Alexander's chosen artist. In that head at least are both the athlete and the thinker, the head atilt with speculation or a reflex. Yet Alexander is not there either-not the Alexander who strolled with Aristotle; or the one who pored over Xenophon; or the Alexander who would only run in the Olympic Games against other kings, since they would not throw the race to him; or the Alexander who envied Achilles because Homer...
...sense of how to control the car-or whether they have it in control at all. Many Americans are defensive drivers, quite content to putt around in an underpowered, six-year-old sedan, carefully navigating the maniacal freeway traffic that surrounds many cities. And every sensible and safe reflex built up for that kind of driving must be violated in Scott's course...