Word: reflectively
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...long dreamed of an aircraft that would fly without supporting wings. "Wings are for the birds," he says. "They heat up, and they increase drag. In supersonic flight they create sound and shock waves. Energy is lost. For economy, you have to have an internal flow process. You can reflect and extinguish these shock waves on the opposite walls of the channel that you put them through...
...commission, "recognizes a more realistic view ... It doesn't mean that a person will be permitted to marry the day after he obtains a divorce, but it will be easier for the church to look at the whole matter." The new position is "an attempt to reflect the Biblical teaching of marriage as a sexual union, and to put remarriage of divorced persons on a less legalistic basis and a different basis than guilt or innocence...
...turned out art by the ovenful, like cookies, mostly for the grave trade. Whether out of superstition or sentiment, their wares were heaped in tombs, and so sometimes survived the centuries. Many of the figures are thought to be free little interpretations of lost great sculptures. They narrowly reflect, as in a rear-view mirror, the lucid, passionate, sun-swept world of the ancient Mediterranean...
...solution is not so simple and for this reason I leave it to the others who are much better informed. But one thing is certain, and that is, when one is treating social relations as they exist in America today, the world situation should make him stop and reflect along with Dean Swift in a Tale of a Tub, that, "...When a man's fancy gets astride of his Reason, when Imagination is at Cuffs with the Senses, and common Understanding, as well as common Sense is kicked out Doors; the first Proselyte he makes is Himself, and when that...
...more forgetful of the fact that Nehru's India still hugs a determined neutralism close to its heart. In one breath they decried the West's preoccupation with H-bombs; in another, they boasted loudly of their own recent experiments with the same weapons-never pausing to reflect that to Indians, all hydrogen is deplorable in fissionable form. They cheerfully compared Gandhi to Lenin, which takes some doing. Khrushchev also, fantastically, proclaimed: "The English, French and Americans started the Second World War and sent new troops against our country-the troops of Hitlerite Germany...