A personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects itself

Usage examples of reflexive.

Since these responses are entirely, or almost entirely, lacking in microcephali and in children born deaf, they are not purely reflexive, like sneezing, e.

Banichi and Jago to know the situation as fully as possible, predigested for atevi comprehension: he did what he could to make it understood in shorthand, and he gave a second, reflexive bow of respect to a man of pragmatic combativeness and considerable virtue.

The lamps flicker, wicks running dry but as he takes his place with the other laborers at the back of the nave as he murmurs reflexive words of prayer, the sacrist makes a startled exclamation and halts halfway down the aisle.

The lamps flicker, wicks running dry but as he takes his place with the other laborers at the back of the nave as he murmurs reflexive words of prayer, the sacrist makes a startled exclamation and halts halfway down the aisle.

Almost immediately he picked up a sharp, reflexive response, but he overinterpreted its true meaning and mistakenly assumed it was because Amuro was far more advanced as a New Type than either Sha Aznable or Kusko Al.

Today, when most vehicles are alive, and hence softer and slower, more armadilloes survive their peculiar reflexive response.

She'd reached through the fencing that saved her life when it absorbed the reflexive buttstroke that would have crushed her sternum and flung her backwards.

It was impossible to make sense of them in terms of any kind of temporal sequence or alternation of scenes, and they resisted all the reflexive attempts of my mind to knit them together into any kind of coherency, but they did have a theme of sorts, and that theme was the consumption of human flesh.

As the internal dramas play out and manifest themselves from an individual, the "who is" (label applied to another) often changes as their human form dependency dictates that it must, and since this process is unthinkingly reflexive, owed to the turbulence within of conflicting dependencies, the decision "who/what is" another, is also an illusion.

Was there a way to kill a Band in the guise of making love, perhaps by means of some horrible thought that would force reflexive disbanding, and was that what she planned to do?

Hearing a shout behind him, Drew turned in reflexive alarm, but never did learn its source.

Perhaps sending Bogard out like this was as much a reflexive attempt at verifying its perceptions as anything else.

A small sting on Ms cheek elicits a fast reflexive slap from Ms right hand.

His visit to sickbay had revealed the extent of Zimmerman's malfunctions, but the doctor had been back at work, analyzing the reflexive effects of the neural tissue.

They've got a mating season-Dawson said so too, and emphasized it-and their mating practice is more reflexive than ours.