Word: reflexivity
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...Supposing ten years ago your grandmother passed away," continued Lem, bowing his head in an automatic reflex of respect. "Maybe she had one of our high-class caskets, maybe she had the middle or low class. Whatever she had, when tragedy strikes your family again . . . you're going to want the same job as your dear grandmother got. But it can't be done . . . You'll have to have the wood; won't be any more steel. Sure, we can fix up the inside a little extra-more plush and all-but folks like the outside...
...Selfless. Dr. Albert Snay took the stand for the defense. He had examined Abbie Borroto just before his friend Dr. Sander came into the room. He had found no pulse, no corneal reflex when he touched the eye, the skin was cold, he had heard no heartbeat. He met Dr. Sander in the doorway, he said, and told him that the patient was gone...
...rustling and chairs creaking, and from the other side of the room, the slow rhythmic breathing of someone who had fallen asleep. Vag sat bunched over his text book with a pencil poised over a clean sheet of paper marked "Reading Notes." He concentrated: ". . . The establishment of a conditioned reflex means the establishment of a functional relation between a stimulus and a response not ordinarily associated with...
...conditioned reflex, experienced moviegoers may accept Tyrone Power as a dashing example of Renaissance Man. But Wanda Hendrix, ludicrously miscast as an Italian noblewoman, looks like a bobby-soxer lost in an art museum. As her guardian-husband, Aylmer is still playing Polonius with all the sententiousness and none of the wit. Welles, in his own freehand style, out-borgias Borgia. Even as capable an actor as Everett Sloane plays a scoundrel to excess...
...next level of attack is on the matter of economy. Some people, upon seeing a chair or a desk 70 years old, feel automatically urged, by a kind of reflex action, to buy a new one. Others like myself, equally automatically, would cherish it, looking forward to the day when it will...