For some time he sat pondering while she stared reflectively into the fire opposite.
While he was dressing, his father sat alone and stared reflectively at the small blue gas blaze in the grate.
For many minutes he stared reflectively at the typewritten message from New York.
He looked across at the hills, squinting reflectively again, and at last glanced up at his grandson, who stood regarding him with thoughtful hesitation.
Thelismer Thornton remained in his place on the corner of the table, staring reflectively at General Waymouth.
Reflectively he turned the pages, reflectively he read, shaking his head when he had done.
He sat there reflectively a little while; then got up, stretching his arms, yawning with a noise like a dog.
Carnine smiled, and stroked his chestnut beard reflectively before he added: "Probably that's why he hasn't been in to renew his last two notes.
He is poking reflectivelyin the earth with his cane.
They were received without comment, though both boys looked at them reflectively for a time.
At intervals one or the other scraped the floor reflectively with the side of his shoe.
No characteristic of consciousness has been more clearly made out, both reflectively and experimentally, than its selective function, than its ability to pick out and intensify within certain limits the stimuli or conditions of action.
This need not mean that the Greeks were reflectively conscious of this, but that this was the way the concept was actually used and developed by Socrates.
In other words, he must reflectively assure himself what the object is before he can satisfy himself as to how he should act.
When she had gone he smoked reflectively for a few moments.
Yes," Robert murmured, staring reflectivelyat the ceiling.
There was a light burning in the taproom, and as she passed its open door she stopped for a moment and gazed reflectively at the row of dilapidated stuffed squirrels, each of which had once stood guard upon the guide-post to the inn.
I am afraid that is Mr. Tippengray's fault," continued Lanigan, folding his hands in his lap and gazing reflectively at his outstretched legs.
Salisbury assented, and the two men sat sipping and smoking reflectively for some minutes before Dyson began.
Mr. Villiers leaned back in his chair and looked reflectively at Austin for a moment before he answered: 'My idea was that Clarke and I should call on Mrs. Beaumont.
He sat gazing reflectively at the pattern in the rug and seemed neither startled nor annoyed.
Gazing reflectively from the window he remembered a conversation with a prominent banker some month or so before.
There was a pucker of annoyance on his wife's fair brow as she stared reflectively through the window at the distant lights of Blitherwood, far up the mountain side.
The Prime Minister tapped reflectivelyupon the table-top with his fingers for a moment or two.
He rose with evident reluctance, and Miss Schuyler sat reflectively silent when he moved away.
V HETTY COMES HOME It was an afternoon of the Indian summer, sunny and cool, and the maples about the Schuyler villa flamed gold and crimson against a sky of softest blue, when Hetty Torrance sat reflectively silent on the lawn.
And he of the weary countenance chewed his quid reflectively for several minutes ere he made reply.
He broke off and began to whistle reflectively between his teeth.
You know, Raney, you'd have made an extraordinarily beautiful girl," said Loring reflectively as they met.
To act thus is to act reflectively, and to act reflectively is the only escape from random acts prompted by instinct and routine ones prompted by habit.
In acting reflectively we subject our accustomed ways to deliberate analysis, however immediately persuasive these may have become, and deliberately institute new habits in the light of the more desirable consequences they will bring.
To act reflectively is to delay response to an instinctive or habitual stimulus until the various possibilities of action and the results associated with each have been considered.
For us the specific features of our social inheritance depend upon the ends or purposes which we reflectively decide upon and accept.
Offspring may come to be reflectively desired by the individual as a means of perpetuating property, family, or fame.
To act reflectively is to be the controlling rather than the controlled element in a situation.
But an act (or a series of acts) reflectively performed is performed in the light of the results that are prophetically associated with them.
He rested his chin in his hand and stared down reflectively at the carpet.
Claire led them up the badly listed steps to an unpainted porch on which sat a little old lady, very neat, very respectable, very interested, and reflectively holding in one ivory hand a dainty handkerchief and a black clay pipe.
They were momentous enough to cause him to say reflectively now, as he watched the paper burn: "You might as well carry dynamite in your pocket as that.
Mr. George Weston rubbed his chin reflectively as he concluded thus.
He played with the ornaments at his watch-chain, looking reflectively at the fire for some moments.
Its fire was burning under the mash kettle and back far enough to escape the revealing light was a bark roofed, browse-thatched retreat in which sat an old man, reflectively smoking.
No," said Smith, tugging reflectively at the lobe of his left ear.
Smith stared after him for a moment, tugging reflectively at the lobe of his ear.
Thus the Ideas in Plato became, reflectively and theoretically, entities with an intrinsic existence, eternal, divine, and absolute essences.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reflectively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
