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Meaning reflection meaning
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Topics reflection topics
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What words refer to thinking about something for a period of time?think about brood cogitate consider give consideration to contemplate meditate muse mull over occupy your mind ponder reconsider reflect reflection ruminate speculate study weigh wonder go around in your mind do some thinking keep your mind on have something on your mind deduce deduction induction inductive logic apply yourself pay attention bethink conclude observe process reason theorize
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Simple sentences
After mature reflection, I've decided to accept their offer.
She is a reflection of her mother.
When I regained my senses, it seemed that fur had grown on my fingers and knees. When it became slightly brighter, I looked at my reflection in a mountain stream, and I realized that I had become a tiger.
Mary made her way to the small grove of peach trees near her house for some quiet reflection.
I saw my reflection in the window.
How many times a day do you look at your reflection in the mirror?
Tom stared at his reflection in the water.
After much reflection, I decided not to accept the offer.
She admired her reflection in the mirror.
Tom just sat there, looking at his reflection in the window.
When Tom saw his reflection in a shop window, he realised how much like his mother he was becoming.
Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in the water.
Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection.
Theater is humanity's active reflection on itself.
I'm looking at my reflection in the lake.
According to this figure, the reflection angle equals the incidence angle.
Tom saw his reflection in the mirror.
I saw my reflection in the mirror.
Tom's conduct is a reflection on the way he was brought up.
Movie subtitles
If it has the property of light, then reflection is also possible.
That's not a reflection on you.
A vampire casts no reflection in the glass.
You will recollect that Dracula cast no reflection in the mirror.
Vampires cast no reflection in a mirror.
What I have to say to you is the result of considerable reflection.
Well, I seem to remember an old Hungarian legend that a vampire casts no reflection in a mirror.
Because a vampire casts no reflection in mirrors.
And the pool - so dark with weeds. you can't even see your own reflection in it.
I'm not looking for my own reflection.
My brother Tyler, please bring in the candidate Avenel, who is writing his philosophical testament in the Office of Reflection.
Well, when I was dressing this evening, just as I was tying my tie, I suddenly realised the reflection was all wrong.
Well at first, if I made an enormous effort of will, the reflection used to change back to what it ought to be.
And when he walked in front of the mirror, I couldn't see his reflection.
It's the truth. I was looking into the water when I noticed the clock's reflection.
But on reflection, it's quite logical.
It yearns after its own reflection in the water.
By the grace of God, it's been given you to see the infinite beauty of the world which is only the reflection seen through a glass darkly of the beauty of God.
My own reflection.
I thought I saw a reflection.
A terrible reflection on American manhood.
What you are is the reflection of what I wanted you to be.
I meant her reflection.
I could see her reflection in the glass as she took.
The reflection of a cloud or some spot on the window. that reminds us of the principal's features. Maybe it's him.
It's no reflection on you, but there are always a few malingerers.
Only my reflection.
They've removed all the mirrors, but I can see my reflection in the glass when the windows are open.
Funny, I can see my reflection in your eyes.
We forgive pretty ladies for looking at their reflection and we blame an intelligent man for hearing himself talk. Why?
If you'd stop preening yourself long enough. so you could see further than your own reflection in a glass. maybe you'd make yourself useful for a change.
You may have the secret of the glass' reflection, but you can't prevent its being broken, Ganor!
News and current affairs
Was it new scientific information that led to the lifting of the flight ban, or was it a reflection of the hardship, both personal and economic, that the ban was causing?
It is a sad reflection on the state of the EU that it seems unable to agree on the one clear productivity-advancing piece of legislation when improving productivity is held out as a shared goal.
Their increasing strength is a reflection of robust economic growth, which promotes production for the market rather than sheer redistribution of resources, implying a new sort of politics.
Unfortunately, proving that speculation is responsible for rising prices is difficult, because speculation tends to occur during booms, so that price increases easily masquerade as a reflection of economic fundamentals.
Had these resources been channeled through America's own aid agency, policymaking would have been subject to the vagaries of development thinking (or the absence of reflection) from one administration to another.
On reflection, I think I was wrong.
Philosophy is inadequate to understand the roots of human psychology, because self-reflection does not make us aware of the forces that drive most of our reactions to the environment.
Thus, today's low interest rates are more a reflection of distortions in financial markets than of low growth expectations.
All this shows that reflection on common ethical values, a global ethic, is needed more urgently now than ever before.
The reflection period has been mostly devoid of actual reflection, and Europe's leaders have failed to offer Europe's citizens any new, fundamental vision.
But a moment's reflection should remind us that Europe's problems are not amenable to currency manipulation.
The Constitutional Treaty is a reflection of our wish to continue in the same vein, to carry on working together.
Declarations by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country assumed the European Union's rotating six-month presidency at the beginning of the year 2007, are unambiguous: the period of reflection, approved by the European Commission in 2005, has ended.
This year, one of the conclusions that such reflection yields is that the United States remains firmly at the center of the liberal world order.
The program has caused a tsunami of online reflection.
But in fact, it is probably more accurate to think of the ups and downs of the world's housing markets as a reflection of the change in our thinking about housing as an investment.
Rather, as the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises emphasized, they are a reflection of people's aggregate time preference - or desire for present versus future satisfaction - not a determinant of it.
For strength unalloyed by checks and balances - and by a capacity for self-critical reflection about the rightness and wrongness of state action - can be unnerving.
We will make it a reality through dialogue and deep reflection about Europe's common values.