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Example sentences for "reflective"

Lexicographically close words:
reflect; reflected; reflecting; reflection; reflections; reflectively; reflectiveness; reflector; reflectors; reflects
  1. It was these men who gave the tone to the groups of believers in their various regions, and that tone varied with the colour of thought in which the more reflective converts had grown up.

  2. No hallucination theory, no gradual rise and growth of hope in the minds of a reflective few, can account for that solid primeval monument.

  3. Self-conscious and reflective nature in the man is of a higher order than the selfless and non-reflective nature in his beast of burden.

  4. Not only does it enable genius to master technique, but it stimulates the critical and reflective faculties also.

  5. His Recitativi are reflective and prayerful, rarely oratorical or pictorial, simple communings upon the Gospel themes which the libretto handles.

  6. Nor do they express the reflective or prayerful mood that reveals Bach.

  7. He gives us exquisite impressions of human character and of nature, but there is little of that brooding, reflective quality, which affords the deepest and most lasting charm of poetry.

  8. The incident caused a good deal of comment, and suggested, doubtless, to the reflective reader that other cases of suspended animation might have a less fortunate issue.

  9. And when the reflective after-time comes, you'll be glad that society didn't let you make a martyr of yourself at its expense.

  10. I'm afraid it isn't in me to care very much about anything," he said, at the end of the reflective excursion.

  11. Lansdale's brain went apart again, and the reflective half of it continued the rummaging.

  12. Oddly enough, when he came to the brink of the pool these things ceased to trouble him; though even there it was impossible to turn the current of thought into a reflective channel.

  13. Jeffard gathered the reins and sat reflective what time the broncho sniffed the cool breeze pouring down from the higher slopes of the western range.

  14. It is thus that the reflective mind of man is led from simple premises to rise to those exalted heights of nature, where in the light-illumined realms of space, "myriads of worlds are bursting into life like the grass of the night.

  15. The material of which this mountain is formed would seem to possess a higher reflective power than that of any other portion of the moon's surface.

  16. They clearly consist of different material from that of which the most of the moon's surface is composed--a material possessing a higher reflective power.

  17. His is a profession which leaves no room for any assumed feeling or for any reflective tendencies.

  18. But she, poor child, had no design in this action, and was simply following her antipathy and inclination, confiding in them as she did in the more reflective judgments into which they entered as sap into leafage.

  19. His plenteous, flexible sympathy had ended by falling into one current with that reflective analysis which tends to neutralize sympathy.

  20. Too often the terms Reciprocal and Reflective have been made synonymous.

  21. Hence arises the hypothesis, that it is to their reciprocal power on the one hand, and to the connexion between the passive, reflective and reciprocal forms on the other, that these verbs owe their deponent character.

  22. Such is a portion of the examples that prove the reciprocal power of the reflective or middle verb in the language of Scandinavia; and that, during all its stages and in each of its derived dialects.

  23. In Icelandic the middle voice is formed from the active by the addition of the reflective pronoun, mik, me, sik, him or self.

  24. Passive Middle or Reflective Voice, and the peculiar expression of the sense of the Definite Article) could be discovered: but it was not upon this idea that I founded the assertion in the text.

  25. In the oldest stage of the language the reflective power of the middle voice, to the exclusion of a passive sense, is most constant: e.

  26. The fact essential to the probability of this hypothesis is the connexion between the reflective forms and the reciprocal ones.

  27. Thus we might have four courses built on Individual Heroism, four on Altruistic Heroism, and four on the Social Adaptation which marks the reflective period between seventeen and twenty.

  28. In the adolescent boy these may roughly be classed as the heroic and reflective stages, or as early, middle, and late adolescence.

  29. Today he is individualistic, tomorrow heroic, a little later reflective and full of thought, but in all of it is progressively active, moving forward by leaps and bounds.

  30. During the reading, broken by feeling and reflective pauses on the chevalier's part, the listeners showed emotion after the nature of each.

  31. A reflective piety took the place of the instinctive religious enthusiasm which made those who felt it believe that they themselves possessed the Spirit.

  32. Zacchary Cripps, at the very first distance at which he was sure of not being seen, began to shake his head, and shook it, in a resolutely reflective way, for nearly three quarters of a mile.

  33. At twilight it recovers its reflective power to the fullest extent, and the mountains of Carrara are seen reflected in it as clearly as if it were a crystalline lake.

  34. But as we soon lose sight of the farther sides of the ripples on the retiring surface, the whole rippled space will then be reflective of the sky only.

  35. First, the imperfection of its reflective surface.

  36. First, The imperfection of its reflective surface.

  37. Hence the visible transparency and reflective power of water are in inverse ratio.

  38. First: Water in shade is much more reflective than water in sunlight.

  39. They have a good reflective capacity and an interest in achieving insight through a careful analysis of their thoughts, feelings, behavior, and past history.

  40. Its vast area was famed for its throng of acute and reflective hearers, almost every man of whom was a sermon taster, while its officers were the acknowledged possessors of letters patent to the true ecclesiastical nobility.

  41. Shortly after my call to Charleston, however, Wattie abandoned this pious and reflective posture, sitting bolt upright, beating back his tendency to thoughtful retirement with the aid of cloves and peppermints.

  42. All this reflective vein flows from this poor heart of mine, the truth whereof that heart hath sorrowfully proved.

  43. I remained, sharing the scant survival of the fit, and fell into a reflective mood, for I love to think to music, none so grand as the accompaniment of ocean.

  44. There were persons who waited on your periods much more deferentially, who were a hundred times more capable than Roderick of a reflective impertinence.

  45. Reflective benevolence stood prudently aside, and for the time touched the source of his irritation with no softening side-lights.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reflective" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    careful; circumspect; cognitive; conceptual; considerate; discreet; discriminating; enlightened; introspective; judicial; judicious; meditative; melancholy; mental; musing; noetic; pensive; philosophical; politic; provident; prudent; reflective; ruminant; serious; sober; speculative; thinking; thought; thoughtful; wise; wistful