Word: reflexively
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...from Pella, his birthplace and the center of his father's kingdom. It is based loosely on the 4th century portraits by Lysippos, Alexander's chosen artist. In that head at least are both the athlete and the thinker, the head atilt with speculation or a reflex. Yet Alexander is not there either-not the Alexander who strolled with Aristotle; or the one who pored over Xenophon; or the Alexander who would only run in the Olympic Games against other kings, since they would not throw the race to him; or the Alexander who envied Achilles because Homer...
...sense of how to control the car-or whether they have it in control at all. Many Americans are defensive drivers, quite content to putt around in an underpowered, six-year-old sedan, carefully navigating the maniacal freeway traffic that surrounds many cities. And every sensible and safe reflex built up for that kind of driving must be violated in Scott's course...
Lorne Henning passes to John Tonelli who passes to Bob Nystrom. They are all Islanders. Nystrom--by reflex--tips the rubber into the Philadelphia net. The net goes taut. It has happened...
Even routine activities like brushing teeth or reflex actions like sneezing and coughing can knock the back out of whack. The horror stories abound. In Alexandria, Va., Anne Moffett, 37, a mother of three, found herself stricken while bending over to make a bed: "Minutes passed, but I was too terrified to straighten up, even to withdraw my hands from the covers. Finally my mother came and coaxed me, inch by painful inch, into...
...aggression is the most basic and dangerous of human impulses, revenge gains a step on it by being premeditated. The urge for lurid, annihilating retaliation-vindication, satisfaction, the no-good bastard's head upon a plate-fetches far back to a shrouded moment when the spontaneous animal reflex of self-protection turned to a savage brooding. The human mind, newly intelligent, began to dream of the barbarously fitting ways in which it would get even. Emanating from hurt and the pain of failure and unfairness, the fantasy of revenge became, it may be, even stronger than the imperative...