Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
It’s also reflective of a young person’s religion or faith in that it’s highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
I think the Women’s March is actually reflective of this idea that you can create a big tent, but that doesn’t mean the people inside of the tent are going to agree on everything. In fact, they might have very public fights about the things that they don’t agree with.
I’m influenced a lot by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, even Paul Weller – Billie Holiday as well: People who wrote and sang songs that were reflective of their times. I quite like that. I quite admire that.
Those reflective moments for me usually come from loneliness and separation from people.
Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it’s too reflective or doesn’t let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level.
The travel book is a convenient metaphor for life, with its optimistic beginning or departure, its determined striving, and its reflective conclusion. Journeys change travellers just as a good travel book can change readers.
I was a boring man but a reflective man.
Pop culture is a huge strategy for WWE: our storylines are reflective of what’s happening in the world and what’s popular.
We never saw Google+ Circles or Facebook Lists as reflective of the way our friendships play out.
I’m very confident, that I’m going to be able to deliver better leadership to Texas than John Cornyn does – more reflective of Texas values than we are of D.C. values, which is what John Cornyn represents to most Texans.
Reflective of the deep sense of gratitude and respect Mongolians reserved for wolves, there was a belief that only through wolves could the spirit of a deceased human be set free to go to Heaven.
What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
I’m doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don’t disparage those things that I did. They’re just not as much reflective of who I am.
I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.
To some degree, I don’t think ‘Batman’ works in a completely modern city; I think Gotham has be reflective of his personality and those of his enemies.
One thing a narcissist doesn’t like is to look in a mirror that is in any way genuinely reflective of what’s on the other side of it.
If one app or news site or friend gets your attention, that means something or someone else loses it. It comes out of our sleep, our time with family or our reflective time with ourselves.
While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
You can get really great reflective screens that rival e-paper at really amazing price points and with fantastic ultra-low-power capabilities.
I looked different, I had different skin, my hair was different, so I would get called names in school. It would always be reflective of what my hair and skin looked like.
I’m lucky enough to live in London, which is a boiling pot of every kind of language and background and demographic and sexuality and gender, and yet most of what we’re seeing in the cinema is not reflective of that.
Art has to be reflective of our society.
I’m quite reflective – I listen to music, I read, I walk with Django.
I feel like I’ve lived two or three completely different lives. At 33, I’m quite reflective and have the perspective you get in your old age when you have been through the losses of life.
Usually, when I’m having a good time, I don’t think about it that much. I tend to become more reflective or introspective.
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