In the light of the ceiling bulb I saw my reflection, standing with a cloth over his shoulder and looking out at me as if ready to hurl himself into whatever the day might bring.
As I ate my dinner I was able to look up whenever I liked and see the oak table, the gleaming plate with its chicken leg and baked potato, the glowing silverware, and my reflection looking up alertly, like someone whose attention has been called to an important matter.
To read my brief reflection from the 2011 Skoll World Forum earlier this year, please click here.
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None of them had seemed to need cleaning before, but when I was through with them I saw my new reflection glowing back at me from all three.
Now I was standing before a man who resembled my old reflection almost exactly but who had been changed in some manner, the way a lawn under a cloudy sky changes when the sun comes out.
But after my hour of reflection, the reality of it struck me.
"I hope my memoirs will provide a serious and thoughtful, but also entertaining, reflection on my time as a Member of Parliament and as Prime Minister, " said Blair.
When I tried to read the SoftBook outdoors, the reflection of my face was as visible as the text.
The reflection of my white cotton underwear neared opacity, realness, and the gold chain with the gold feather glimmered.
One of my favorites was his reflection from 1970 where he felt compelled to write a music review of a 24-year-old guitar-slinging postman named John Prine.
For a moment I focus on the glass and catch the faint, honest reflection of my eye staring back at me, a lock of gray straggly hair in its way.
The reflection of my face is in his glasses.
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The train window was so dank with mist anyway that it was hard to see anything at all except the reflection of my own dark figure hunched down under the baggage rack in my black tweed coat and hat.
Molyneux was the only developer out there who was willing (and this might well be a reflection of my sales skills rather than anything else, that I could only find one) to try funding a general game development rather than a small and specific task.
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My friends who study advertising as both a reflection and shaper of cultural norms would not disagree with my impression: We talk about the death of command and control leadership, and praise the rise of a new, more collaborative, breed of leader.
The only time I really experience any self-reflection these days is when my computer sleeps and my screen goes dark.
For the record, my tentative list (pending a bit more reflection) of the best superhero movies now looks like this: 1.
My hope is, is that after some reflection, after we walked through all the numbers this week and we looked at all the options, that there may be some movement, some possibility, some interest to still get something more than the bare minimum done.
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The reflection of being so helpless to contribute to my country at that time still haunts me today.
Recently upon reflection, I remember that long ago, my dad actually used a double-edged razor (aka a safety razor) before going electric.
It should be a snuggery of privacy and reflection, but also a gathering place that strengthens my engagement with other people.
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So perhaps my choice to star in 'Jesus' Son' was a reflection of that.
This 1918 poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, was brought to my attention by friend Elizabeth Lynn, Director of the Project on Civil Reflection in Valparaiso, Indiana.
But amidst the "craving a chocolate bar" or "watching my cat throw up a hairball" tweets, there is a serious reflection of historical context -- a real-time timeline written by regular people.
President HAMID KARZAI (Afghanistan): My heart goes to the families, the friends and the Canadian people at this time of reflection and sorrow for those families.
"What my colleagues and I have done for Malaysian workers over the past four years are only a reflection of what is to come and implemented in the next five years, " local media quoted him as saying on 1 May.
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