In Dryden, and his followers through the eighteenth century, we see the
reaction against the exuberance and irregularity of that prose, no longer justified by power, but cognizable rather as bad taste.
Reaction mounted from the crew to the captain himself, and certainly, had it not been for the resolute determination on the part of Captain Farragut, the frigate would have headed due southward.
Such were the very natural reflections of the crowd, and hence the
reaction in their feelings.
The
reaction from the state of fear he had been in had overcome Spider quite as effectually as though he had drawn the fated piece.
The day had been too long, the day's effort too intense, and he was deep in the throes of the
reaction.
Our impulses are not patent to a casual observation, but are only to be discovered by a scientific study of our actions, in the course of which we must regard ourselves as objectively as we should the motions of the planets or the chemical reactions of a new element.
We do not say so, because we can account for the behaviour of water by the laws of physics; and if we knew more about animals, we might equally cease to attribute desires to them, since we might find physical and chemical reactions sufficient to account for their behaviour.
A more complete imagination than Philip's might have pictured a youth of splendid hope, for he must have been entering upon manhood in 1848 when kings, remembering their brother of France, went about with an uneasy crick in their necks; and perhaps that passion for liberty which passed through Europe, sweeping before it what of absolutism and tyranny had reared its head during the
reaction from the revolution of 1789, filled no breast with a hotter fire.
As if in
reaction against the worsening of their position they were all particularly animated and gay.
A machine for converting stimuli into
reactions. Stimuli and
reactions are remembered.
I seemed able to capture new
reactions, new suggestions, and even new rhythms for my paragraphs.
"It is very important for caregivers of food-allergic children to carry an EpiPen with them at all times, know how to recognize a serious
reaction and how to use an EpiPen.