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" Mr. Morgan, reflectively, after a long pause: "It will fluctuate.

"You gotta watch what you wish for," Paul says reflectively.

Many tracks on Physically Sick fit this description, while others are more reflectively atmospheric.

Our eyes are in turn kept on edge, and vision remains self-reflectively alive.

Having experimented reflectively on himself, he decided to try something like it on other people.

Instead of criticizing him like I might've done reflectively in the past, I reassured him.

When he finally gets home, Dorsey said he reflectively journals and wears an Oura ring to track his sleep.

The question then is how can universities help students read text thoughtfully, reflectively, and without distraction on digital devices?

I think my morning meditation helps me deal with Trump a little less reactively and a little more reflectively.

Voting down an Obama appointee to the court is one thing, but reflectively blocking the entire process from even starting is quite another.

The Times's Ginia Bellafante writes: New York City has been thinking more reflectively about what and who is memorialized in our public spaces.

And this practice, on the meditation cushion, can help you conduct your daily affairs more reflectively and less reactively, with less obedience to emotions.

There was a solitary man standing, very reflectively, smoking a huge joint with what appeared to be a bottle of water at his feet.

I think maybe people today look at it reflectively as a time capsule, and it amuses me but it still is a little bit shocking.

Virgo is a quiet sign, so this truth will first be admitted internally and reflectively, but it's a hot take that you'll definitely want to share.

Or, at least, you can behave more like a C.E.O. is expected to behave: more rationally, more wisely, more reflectively; less emotionally, less rashly, less reactively.

It is a useful thing to have a body confirm the results of a democratic election—so long as that body exercises its power reflectively and conservatively.

"4/20 in LA," the one-time ballet dancer says reflectively, three miniature gold pendants (cactus, camel, owl) dangling from his neck as he rolls another joint.

In each, the sender reflectively questions what vanity metrics, visible follower counts, and the constant contest for the "perfect life" has done to society and people's mental health.

Isabelle Huppert: I don't reflectively think about this when choosing roles, but I think, with almost any character, once you can understand them, you tend to like them.

I wasn't thrilled about his use of glass mosaic tiles at first, which generally decorate a single letter in a word, or reflectively highlight select letters, but I came around to them.

During the past year or two, under the mayoral administration of Bill de Blasio, New York City has been thinking more reflectively about what and who is memorialized in our public spaces.

These machines do not (yet) have the goals or strategies or capacities for self-criticism and innovation to permit them to transcend their databases by reflectively thinking about their own thinking and their own goals.

I mean, one of the things that is hard to bring back is how much people reflectively talked about TV as an embarrassing, shameful, harmful — but also kind of compulsive and pleasurable — habit, like chain-smoking or eating candy.

He wore his navy blazer and a matching tie, an implicit show of respect for the vanquished; and though he took handwritten notes to the lectern, he barely glanced at them, instead gazing reflectively at no one in particular.

In the same way that Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly and Chance's Coloring Book revitalized the genre by infusing it with jazz and gospel, reflectively, Staples incorporated a forward-thinking selection of electronic sounds for the year's most adventurous hip-hop record.

We, the public, might learn a lot about Mr. Mueller and the bipartisan respect he has long commanded if he were asked to speak more reflectively for a few minutes about an institution, the FBI, and the Constitution and country he loves.

In the ad, Archie Parnell, who is running for the real-life House seat once held by the fictional "House of Cards" antihero, is seen hovering over a chessboard, wearing a tuxedo and reflectively laying on a couch, all the while quoting Underwood.

Yet, typically when Jewish and pro-Israel voters talk about Trump being "good on Israel" as their sole reason for supporting him, they mean it in a reflectively hawkish sense that rarely finds any reason to criticize the world's only Jewish state.

Poetry FEED By Tommy Pico When Tommy Pico published "IRL," the first of his four smart, chaotic, book-length poems about modern life, the universe and everything, he was an unheralded 20-something gay Kumeyaay Indian (or, as he prefers, NDN) man living uneasily, reflectively, in Brooklyn.

"Based on the evidence we've generated so far, we really do think that cognitive behavioral programs are helping kids to physically slow down their decision-making and respond more reflectively when they're in really high-stakes situations that can be dangerous or get them into trouble," Quinn says.

Eight of them showed different rooms in the nobly decaying Rokeby mansion, and in each room a single musician was playing an instrument—acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, banjo, cello, piano, drums, accordion—playing it slowly and reflectively, and periodically singing a quiet refrain that spoke of heartache and loss.

These properties make salient the sometimes parasitic nature of acquired memes, and as a result individuals should be motivated to reflectively acquire memes using what he calls a "Neurathian bootstrap" process.

1(1): 1. The Sydney School works to reflectively institutionalise a pedagogy that is established to be conducive to students of lower socio-economic backgrounds, indigenous students and migrants lacking a strong English literacy basis.

It is preoccupied by the infinite. Secondly, in the reflective stage, mind has become an object to itself. It thus knows itself explicitly or reflectively. Its own individuality is now the only or at least the supreme thing.

The State is "objective spirit" so "it is only through being a member of the state that the individual himself has objectivity, truth, and ethical life" (section 258). Every member loves the State with genuine patriotism, but has transcended simple "team spirit" by reflectively endorsing their citizenship.

Unlike Kahlo, her popularity was due more to her enchanting beauty than to her artistic and literary work. She reflectively described her work as intuitive. All her self-portraits show oversized, green eyes, but her eyes seem highlighted also in paintings by other artists. Many of her works are undated.

This package contains the interface called `AnnotatedElement` that is implemented by the Java reflection classes including `Class`, `Constructor`, `Field`, `Method`, and `Package`. The implementations of this interface are used to represent an annotated element of the program currently running in the Java Virtual Machine. This interface allows annotations to be read reflectively. The `AnnotatedElement` interface provides access to annotations having `RUNTIME` retention.

Each opens reflectively, is in three movements, and contrasts agitated and jagged passages with warmer romantic sections. The Cello Concerto is more introspective than the two earlier concertos, with a ticking rhythm throughout the work suggesting the inexorable passage of time. The two symphonies are strongly contrasted with one another. The First is on a large scale, reminiscent at times of Sibelius.

Anthony Freeman welcomed Blackmore's investigation of conscious experience. He recommended reading the book "slowly and reflectively" because of its dense meditative tone. "The reading becomes a reliving of the experience." Peter Fenwick noted how Blackmore's views on the self as a construction make sense of her previous work arguing that near-death experiences are also a construction of the mind.

The GnuPG project recommends that Blowfish not be used to encrypt files larger than 4 GB due to its small block size. A reduced-round variant of Blowfish is known to be susceptible to known- plaintext attacks on reflectively weak keys. Blowfish implementations use 16 rounds of encryption, and are not susceptible to this attack. Nevertheless, Bruce Schneier has recommended migrating to his Blowfish successor, Twofish.

Visual ethics is equally concerned with the ethics of reception, that is, with seeing as an ethical act. How do different images influence our ethical responses and moral behavior in different ways? To what extent do our ethical responses to images take place pre-reflectively, by visual-perceptual processes in the body-mind, before images even come to consciousness? It can be looked upon more into the cultural perception.

The designation also comes at a cost. Artisans now focus their attention beyond the home community; that which they did more or less non- reflectively within their communities, they now evaluate in an expanded perspective. Fame becomes a growing factor in their businesses and their lives. The market is interested in their product; it becomes a commodity, bringing with it a sense of entitlement on the part of the consumer.

Reflectively, the narrator realises being forced to impose strict laws and to shoot the elephant. He states his feelings against the act but submits after comprehending he "had got to shoot the elephant"—illustrates an inherent problem of hegemony: "when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys". By enforcing the strict British rule, he is forfeiting his freedom and oppressing the Burmese.Runciman, David.

Vicarious traumatization is not the responsibility of clients or systems, although institutions that provide trauma-related services bear a responsibility to create policies and work settings that facilitate staff (and therefore client) well-being. Each trauma worker is responsible for self-care, working reflectively, and engaging in regular, frequent, trauma-informed professional confidential consultation. There are many ways of addressing vicarious traumatization. All involve awareness, balance, and connection.

A Strand pack This television advertisement depicted a dark, wet, deserted London street scene in which a raincoated character, played by Terence Brook, looking similar to Frank Sinatra, lit a cigarette and puffed reflectively. This was accompanied by an instrumental, "The Lonely Man Theme" by Cliff Adams, playing in the background and a voice-over declared "You're never alone with a Strand. The cigarette of the moment".The Commercials at WhirligigTV.co.uk.

Kent is one counties in England that retains selection. This is a selective school: pupils gain entry by sitting the Kent test, an eleven plus test. Barton Court’s is an Advanced Thinking School which means the curriculum is designed and implemented in common commitment to giving regular careful thought to everything that takes place in the childs school experience. Students and staff think reflectively, critically and creatively, using set skills and techniques.

Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on one's actions so as to engage in a process of continuous learning. According to one definition it involves "paying critical attention to the practical values and theories which inform everyday actions, by examining practice reflectively and reflexively. This leads to developmental insight". A key rationale for reflective practice is that experience alone does not necessarily lead to learning; deliberate reflection on experience is essential.

They are also capable of multicolour-image reproduction.Hariharan, (2002), Section 7.2, p61 Specular holography is a related technique for making three-dimensional images by controlling the motion of specularities on a two-dimensional surface. It works by reflectively or refractively manipulating bundles of light rays, whereas Gabor-style holography works by diffractively reconstructing wavefronts. Most holograms produced are of static objects but systems for displaying changing scenes on a holographic volumetric display are now being developed.

Top-down reasoning in ethics is when the reasoner starts from abstract universalisable principles and then reasons down them to particular situations. Bottom-up reasoning occurs when the reasoner starts from intuitive particular situational judgements and then reasons up to principles. Reflective Equilibrium occurs when there is interaction between top-down and bottom-up reasoning until both are in harmony. That is to say, when universalisable abstract principles are reflectively found to be in equilibrium with particular intuitive judgements.

According to Q magazine, Like a Virgin was the album that "propelled [Madonna] into the stratosphere – and rightly so. The songs are smart, funny, sexy and irresistible." Taraborrelli said, "It was Like a Virgin which reflected Madonna as a more versatile and artistic performer and vocals on this album being reflectively sharper in contrast to her early works in the music industry." Michael Paoletta from Billboard commented that the songs on the album sustain a "fevered dance-rock momentum".

Puritan casuistry is a genre of British religious literature, in the general area of moral theology, and recognised as founded about 1600. The work A Case of Conscience (1592) of William Perkins is considered foundational for the genre. So-called "case divinity" has been described as fundamental to Puritan culture. The underlying theological trend is said to be visible in George Gifford: evidence from life accentuated as "proof of election", to be obtained reflectively, and matching "biblically promised effects".

Hume, David. Kant, Hegel and their successors sought to flesh out the process by which the subject is constituted out of the flow of sense impressions. Hegel, for example, stated in his Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit that a subject is constituted by "the process of reflectively mediating itself with itself."Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit Hegel begins his definition of the subject at a standpoint derived from Aristotelian physics: "the unmoved which is also self-moving" (Preface, para. 22).

Before its meaning became prevalent in society, one could not describe oneself as a person of that kind. There were confused individuals who were (either deliberately or pre-reflectively) seeking to dissociate themselves from memories of painful events. These people, however, could not have described themselves as having the Disorder, nor could people in psychology diagnose their patients with this term. Once MPD became a kind of thing, it became a way for individuals to understand themselves and understand people around them.

Kent's illustrations give the impression of being woodcuts but are in fact ink and wash. Kent counselled Kittredge that the "whole book is a work that should be read slowly, reflectively; the large page and type induce such reading. The character of the type should be homely, rather than refined and elegant, for homeliness flavors every line that Melville wrote." He wrote that he had thought of using a fourteen-point Caslon type-face, and he did make the pages rather large.

It also featured in an episode of the 2004 BBC miniseries Blackpool as part of the story. The track also appeared on an advert for Coronation Street in 2003, promoting the climax of a bigamous storyline involving the character Peter Barlow. Barlow, portrayed by Chris Gascoyne, was seated at a table, reflectively spinning his two wedding rings around. On The Colbert Report, a couple who had been prevented from wedding at the Jefferson Memorial, by the 2013 government shutdown, were married.

"The 64-year-old leader drummed his fingers nervously on the mahogany arm on his chair as he talked," Sherman wrote. "He gazed reflectively out a large window across a fishpond outside and into the China skies. He smiled only when he greeted and left his guest." Chiang told Sherman he fully understood that the people of the United States had two questions in mind--whether his troops would fight and win and whether his government had the support of the people.

Article 8 of the European Court of Human Rights has been interpreted to include "personal identity" within the meaning of "private life." Goodwin v the UK (2002) 35 EHRR 18 at 90. Article 8 protects against unwanted intrusion and provides for the respect of an individual's private space. Professor Marshall explains that this is important to be uninterrupted and to "think reflectively without interference is to be in control of one’s own faculties,"J Marshall, "Human Rights Law and Personal Identity", Taylor and Francis, 2014 at 36.

A Guide to Berlin has received mixed reviews. Independent praised Jones' novel and stated that, although the story was slightly heavy, her ability to write reflectively was one of her strengths..The Guardian said that although the novel looked promising, it was disappointing and did not live up to Nabokov's writing standards. The Sydney Morning Herald observed that Jones included many Nabokovian elements in her novel, such as one character having the same birthday as the Russian author The book has an average rating of 3.43 stars out of 5 on Goodreads.

Beginning to develop his style, he writes of religious-based principles of the wrongdoings to other people, as well as reflectively about the summer that he spent in Vitini. This also led to his writing of Latvian patriotism, expressed through both the history of Piebalga district and its early heroes. After trusting his mother and reading her some of his poetry, she sought the advice of theology professor Voldemars Maldonis of the University of Latvia. Aged 13, Breikšs won his first prize for poetry from youth magazine Cirulitis (Little Lark).

The Sir William Glasgow Memorial Statue is a bronze statue and is about high and is set on a tapered plinth, which is clad with panels of grey granite and bears inscriptions detailing Glasgow's career and service record. The statue depicts Glasgow in the uniform of an officer of the Light Horse holding a pair of field glasses. He is standing at ease in a relaxed and natural pose and gazes reflectively into the distance. The stamp of the foundry, Foundaria Natistica, Battaglia, Milan is imprinted on the bronze behind the statue's right heel.

The song reached No.6 in the UK charts. Opening lyrics for "Where Are We Now" reflectively recall the name of a train station (plaza) and a street in west Berlin, where Bowie once lived. A video accompanying the single includes props such as a dismantled photo frame lying discarded on the floor in the opening shot, a large ear in the background, and a two-headed soft doll with the torn faces of Bowie and a voiceless counterpart "pasted" onto it in. Lyrics also include the phrase "the moment you know you know, you know".

Ryan Hall houses more than 350 student suites. It also includes a dining hall, lounge area, convenience store, and a 150-seat banquet hall. Mercyhurst University continues to be guided by the legacy of its founders, the Sisters of Mercy, in educating students in a culture where faith and reason flourish together; where the beauty and power of the liberal arts combine with an appreciation for the dignity of work; and a commitment to serving others. To do this Mercyhurst embraces and lives its five core values, being socially merciful, globally responsible, compassionately hospitable, intellectually creative, and reflectively aware.

When writing reflectively, a writer attempts to convey their own thought process. Therefore, reflective writing is one of the more personal styles of writing as the writer is clearly inserted into the work. This style of writing invites both the reader and the writer to introspect and examine their own thoughts and beliefs, and gives the writer and the reader a closer, less distant relationship. Reflective writing tends to consist of description, or explaining the event and its context; interpretation, or how the experience challenged existing opinions; and outcome, or how the experience contributed to personal or professional development.

Another aspect of this plan was star power, reflected in one of the principal characters, Wen-ching being played by then rising Hong Kong film star Tony Leung. The intention behind this was to increase Hong Kong and Overseas Chinese viewership. The film also used an array of different languages, chiefly Taiwanese Hokkien, Cantonese, Japanese, and Shanghainese as a way to promote the cultural diversity of the cast and reflectively, of Taiwan to a global audience, which stands in contrast to many earlier films being only in Mandarin Chinese, due to the governments promotion of Mandarin as the national language.

As a politician, he was "very pronounced" in his views; a Webster Whig Party member, with a "most consistent temperance." At the onset of the American Civil War his political views were aligned with the Republican Party. The sentiment of Norcross' spirit was reflectively shared upon his death: It is with this in mind, that "[h]is failure to receive the customary re-election for a second-term was due, perhaps, to a certain stiffness of virtue, which in political life at least, seldom receives the reward it merits." His distant fourth cousin Jonathan Norcross served as fourth ante-bellum Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, as candidate of the Moral Party.

Another study showed that students who were assigned reflective writing during a camp developed greater self-awareness, had a better understanding of their goals, and were better able to recognize their personal development. Reflective writing is useful to improve collaboration, as it makes writers aware of how they sound when they voice their thoughts and opinions to others. Additionally, it is an important part of the reflective learning cycle, which includes planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. Students can be hesitant to write reflectively as it requires them to not just consider but actively cite things they typically would hide or ignore in academic writing, like their anxieties and shortcomings.

There are two basic moods to Yanni music: struttingly heroic with martial overtones, and dreamily contemplative... A kind of peaceful, easy-feeling link between pop music and classical music." More recently, Allmusic's Mark Deming characterized Yanni's compositions and performances as having "a pronounced sense of drama, dynamics, and romanticism," writing that Yanni has a "commanding performance style." Rob Garratt wrote in The National that Yanni "breaks all the rules" in producing music "typically in two modes – poundingly heroic or reflectively ambient." In 2012 Howie Grapek remarked in The Palm Beach Post's PBPulse that "there are few modern-day composers with a unique sense of music and style which is truly their own.

According to the space-based observations by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Adelgunde measures between 9.72 and 9.93 kilometers in diameter, and its surface has a high albedo of 0.488–0.514. Based on the survey carried out by the Japanese Akari satellite, it measures 13.7 kilometers with an albedo of 0.26. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) agrees with the results obtained by AKARI, assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20, and calculates a diameter of 15.5 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 11.41. As the diameters are typically inferred from the body's absolute brightness and its reflectively, a higher albedo results in a smaller diameter.

A promising innovative approach to improving recovery rates for the treatment of GAD is to combine CBT with motivational interviewing (MI). Motivational interviewing is a strategy centered on the patient that aims to increase intrinsic motivation and decrease ambivalence about change due to the treatment. MI contains four key elements: (1) express empathy, (2) heighten dissonance between behaviors that are not desired and values that are not consistent with those behaviors, (3) move with resistance rather than direct confrontation, and (4) encourage self-efficacy. It is based on asking open- ended questions and listening carefully and reflectively to patients' answers, eliciting "change talk", and talking with patients about the pros and cons of change.

In several interviews, M Huncho has described his more tone-down, melodic style and moderately humbler approach when it comes to lyrics as his own derivative take on UK trap music, in a genre he has personally dubbed as "trapwave". Wolverhampton artist Scarlxrd implements an energetic aesthetic and tone with explosively brazen screaming vocals, and dark yet reflectively intense and meaningful lyricism in an essentially self-pioneered style known as "trap-metal" or "ragecore"; a fusion of trap music and screaming vocals. Scarlxrd has cited some of his main inspirations and influences as including the likes of Eminem, Bring Me the Horizon, Limp Bizkit, DMX, Slipknot, Travi$ Scott and Linkin Park, among others.

Discourses often occur within institutionalized forms of argumentation that self-reflectively refine their procedures of communication, and as a result, have a more rigorous set of presuppositions in addition to the ones listed above. A striking feature of discourse is that validity claims tend to be explicitly thematized and there is the presupposition that all possible interlocutors would agree to the universal validity of the conclusions reached. Habermas especially highlights this in what he calls theoretical discourses and practical discourses. These are tied directly to two of the three dimensions of validity discussed above: theoretical discourse being concerned with validity claims thematized regarding objective states of affairs (IT); practical discourse being concerned with validity claims thematized concerning the rightness of norms governing social interactions (WE).

The video begins with a montage of scenes from inner-city areas of New York City, followed by a camera shot of an apartment window in which a light has just been turned on. The video then centralizes upon a view of Nas reflectively rapping with a single microphone in a bare apartment room. While Nas is rapping, the video switches to a scene of a routine police stop of four suspects which quickly escalates to an on-foot chase of the suspects by police as a surprised elder bystander "fiend drops his Heineken" onto the asphalt. The suspects and the police dramatically part around Nas, who is rapping in the middle of the street, as they continue the chase around a corner.

The sonata, written for violin with basso continuo (figured bass), is written in four movements: #Larghetto ma non troppo #Allegro moderato #Andante #Allegro assai — Andante — Allegro assai The first movement, in time, begins gently and reflectively, with languid double stops and a flowing violin melody line filled with tasteful embellishments. The melody, which moves from the tonic to the mediant key in the middle of the movement includes several deceptive cadences, before returning once again to a tonic theme similar to the beginning. A crisp, quick, highly decorated bravura follows, preceding a brief cantabile slow movement, said to signify Tartini's dream state. The last movement, technically difficult, begins fast, before dissolving into repeated, modular violin melody over an intensifying accompaniment.

He authored at least 379 biomedical research articles published in refereed publications.Harvard Catalyst index of refereed biomedical publications by Daniel David Federman, MD From 2000 to 2007, Federman was senior dean for alumni relations and clinical teaching at HMS, mentoring medical education developments through innovative initiatives. After his retirement from Harvard Medical School at the end of 2007, when he was succeeded by Edward M. Hundert, he taught in Miami, Florida for over six years at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.Grand Rounds : Archive, 2003-2013. Dr. Daniel Federman, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami His most recent topics reflectively expressed his broad and humane interests: “Protecting Research Participants”, “The physician’s responsibility toward hopelessly ill patients”, “The endocrine patient”, and “The education of medical students: sounds, alarms, and excursions”.

Children who have not obtained this stage of bodily self-awareness yet will tend to view reflections of themselves as other children and respond accordingly, as if they were looking at someone else face to face. In contrast, those who have reached this level of awareness will recognize that they see themselves, for instance seeing dirt on their face in the reflection and then touching their own face to wipe it off. Slightly after toddlers become reflectively self-aware, they begin to develop the ability to recognize their bodies as physical objects in time and space that interact and impact other objects. For instance, a toddler placed on a blanket, when asked to hand someone the blanket, will recognize that they need to get off it to be able to lift it.

That is, the child can be so overwhelmed by parental aggression that he faces the loss of his sense of self, as described by Bromberg: > Psychological trauma occurs in situations, explicitly or implicitly > interpersonal, in which self-invalidation (sometimes self-annihilation) > cannot be escaped from or prevented, and from which there is no hope of > protection, relief, or soothing. If the experience is either prolonged, > [sic] assaultively violent, or if self-development is weak or immature, then > the level of affective arousal is too great for the event to be experienced > self-reflectively and given meaning through cognitive processing. … At its > extreme, the subjective experience is that of a chaotic and terrifying > flooding of affect that threatens to overwhelm sanity and psychological > survival :—Bromberg, 1998, 12. Not all interpersonal trauma is as dramatic as Bromberg notes in the prior quote.

Denning playing in 2014 The song's inspiration stems from a driver's license one of Denning's friends found after it had been lost at a bar; the friend then used it as a fake ID to illegally purchase alcohol under the name and residence of David Ashley Parker of Powder Springs, Georgia, respectively, although Denning stated that he used the license. Denning, who is a professional songwriter, considered writing the song while he was 19 years old and was still using the identity, but decided that waiting until he could write about his actions reflectively was better. The song was written by Denning, Jessi Alexander, and Jon Randall in a single writing session; Denning reported that the song only took about two hours to write. Lyrically, the song describes the use of the fake ID from Denning's viewpoint.

Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian called Keys "crashingly dull... her vaunted self-belief seemingly leaves no room for vulnerability, humour, insight or any of the other qualities possessed by the soul giants to whose stature she aspires". Writing for Rolling Stone, critic Robert Christgau found the album's prevailing mood "reflectively soulful and the prevailing tempo mid". In his consumer guide, Christgau gave it a one-star honorable mention () and quipped, "Nice girl holds out," while citing "Teenage Love Affair" and "Wreckless Love" as highlights. Despite commending the album for its "more traditional soul" and pop-oriented sound, The Observer writer Stephanie Merritt perceived Keys' lyrics as a significant fault and wrote "for the most part, the lyrics are so reliant on stock phrases – 'feel your touch', 'hold me', 'shoulda known', etc – that you could read anything you like into them without them carrying any personal feeling at all".

One example of the use of Essence in university education was a software engineering course carried out in Norwegian University of Science and Technology. A study was conducted by introducing Essence into a project-based software engineering course, with the aim of understanding what difficulties the students faced in using Essence, and whether they considered it to have been useful. The results indicated that Essence could also be useful for novice software engineers by (1) encouraging them to look up and study new practices and methods in order to create their own, (2) encouraging them to adjust their way-of-working reflectively and in a situation-specific manner, (3) helping them structure their way of working. The findings of another study introducing students to Essence through a digital game supported these findings: the students felt that Essence will be useful to them in future, real-world projects, and that they wish to utilize it in them.

In the erotic novel My Secret Life the narrator "Walter", an evident connoisseur of female pubic hair, talks with clear delight of a fine bush of a Scotswoman's thick red pubic hair: > "The bush was long and thick, twisting and curling in masses half-way up to > her navel, and it spread about up her buttocks, gradually getting shorter > there." In another part of his autobiography Walter remarks that he has seen those "bare of hair, those with but hairy stubble, those with bushes six inches long, covering them from bum bone to navel." And he adds reflectively – "there is not much that I have not seen, felt or tried, with respect to this supreme female article." In like vein, in The Memoirs of Dolly Morton, an American erotic classic, the attributes of Miss Dean are noted with some surprise – her spot was covered with a "thick forest of glossy dark brown hair," with locks nearly two inches long.

As opposed to narratives that concentrate on the victimization of murdered Indigenous women, Murphy aimed to portray their voices, heroism, and resistance, along with their societal marginalization. The play's title, Pig Girl, is described by the author as ironic and provocative, as the murdered women were treated like animals. Set in the barn of the pig farm, each of Pig Girl’s four fictionalized characters — The Dying Woman, The Killer, The Cop and The Sister — describe their perspectives and experiences of the events inspired by the Robert Pickton case. The play is simultaneously set within two different temporalities. In one, The Cop and Sister reflectively respond to the missing Girl - Sister spends her life looking for her missing sibling and convincing the dismissive cop to do the same, and the Cop, who is “caught within a justice system that has made him apathetic and narrow-minded,” comes to understand that his doings were wrong.

Michael Marcus (the father of Ben Marcus, the character) opens Notable American Women with several warnings – most notably, that his own offspring, Ben, may very well be mentally handicapped – and ponders reflectively, "How can one word from Ben Marcus's rotten, filthy heart be trusted?" With that, Ben Marcus (the author) launches into a lengthy first-person narration with Ben Marcus as guide, allowing the reader to decide if, and how, any of the words can be trusted. Playing with the English language in such a manner that his work has drawn comparison's to Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, among other novels, Marcus describes the cultish, recondite practises of his mother, her enigmatic mentor Jane Dark, and their legion of disciples as they attempt to create perfect stillness in the world by eliminating the "wind violence" of speech and, ultimately, physical movement. Dark, witty, and depressing in its ironic hilarity, Notable American Women allows the reader to delve into the mind of a well-meaning but obtuse young man, to glimpse into his turbulent upbringing full of radical experimentation and forced-breeding (among other things) and, possibly, to become attached.