What is "reflectively"

Usage examples of "reflectively".

Danforth and I saw the freshly glistening and reflectively iridescent black slime which clung thickly to those headless bodies and stank obscenely with that new, unknown odor whose cause only a diseased fancy could envisage--clung to those bodies and sparkled less voluminously on a smooth part of the accursedly resculptured wall in a series of grouped dots--we understood the quality of cosmic fear to its uttermost depths.

The implied doubt seemed to be justified, but Steingall stroked his chin reflectively.

Reflectively she threw away the energy, deflecting it out across the amphitheater in gigantic dragon tongues of destruction.

Tallant allowed it, adding reflectively that Arabella put him forcibly in mind of what her Mama was at the same age.

He had expected denial from her, but she had held her cigaret up in the air, and reflectively regarded its small gilt tip.

She looked at Leucon nodding reflectively on his bench, then back to Dan, meeting his gaze.

Smiling reflectively, and looking at the peaceful and lightly freckled face of his consort, Lorn still finds it hard to believe that the festivities of their consorting two days earlier had lasted most of the day and into the evening.

He flexed his fingers reflectively, in the disharmonic motion from little finger to thumb that no animal but man can copy, and watched the widening wavefronts of greenish light re bound in larger arcs from the curved spore walls.

She said the name reflectively, flicking her tongue over her canine teeth.

She had suffered before--yes, but lucidly, reflectively, elegiacally: now she was suffering as a hurt animal must, blindly, furiously, with the single fierce animal longing that the awful pain should stop.

Fitch Yorke sat on a bed roll, his head and shoulder resting against the knotty trunk of a wind-twisted tree, his blond hair bright against the dark purple-blue of the bole as he chewed reflectively on a stick and regarded the flamer with a brooding frown.

Painted magpies perched reflectively on his shoulders as he pored over the drawings he made among the trees, while fox cubs rolled in play around his feet and even learned to nose in his capacious pockets for cookies.

I occupied myself with the picture for perhaps a quarter of an hour, during which Wilde smoked reflectively, but uttered not one word.

Gull, to put back all the stuff you swept off your desk when you decided to reflectively hump your patient all over it.

More,' he said reflectively, gazing up at the tell-tale compass overhead.