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Deflective body movements also play an important part in avoiding an attack.

Maybe I'm under a deflective spell so she can't orient on me.

An object's deflective efficiency can never equal or surpass 100%.

Occasionally on the show, deflective comments are made, and Mills often jokes that he "doesn't have much luck with the ladies".

"I'm smart enough to know it was deflective behavior," Mr. Gutierrez said recently at lunch.

A deflective shield that cuts all damage taken while readied, although it overheats and goes offline if used for too long.

The difference between a premature contact and a deflective interference is that the latter implies a dynamic abnormality in the bite.

The ensign's barrage splashed off the deflective surface, wreaking havoc on a bulkhead instead.

To Wilson, they are little more than deflective narratives, consoling fictions that justify our behavior without providing true insight into its origins.

It has virtually no permanent acoustic absorption, relying on room shape and deflective elements to achieve control of reverberation.

A deflective interference refers to an interference with the bite that changes the normal path of the bite.

Deflective marks.

Satie's music is deflective.

A common example of a deflective is an over-erupted upper wisdom tooth, often because the lower wisdom tooth has been removed.

The word conjured ox carts and oil lamps, not isolinear sensors and deflective scanners.

The style of these poems is graceful and formal; at times, indeed, almost deflective of entry, almost, at times, opaque.

It did not have the deflective powers of a full battle shield but if a lasgun's beam hit the thing the consequent quick-fire could be fatal.

Gillian leaped in front of the man, raised his arms overhead, and smashed his fists down through the weak side portals of the deflective energy field.

"He says I took it harder than I say I do," Bricklin says with a deflective smile.

It is thought that it was worn to create a more deflective surface to the rider's armour, thus allowing blades to skim over, rather than strike and pierce.

Whether the election-year deflective strike and the pre-emptive poor-mouthing are as effective may depend in part on the Mayor since the city will probably appeal for more help from Albany anyway.

Speakers of Chinese seem to have a very deflective approach to praise and compliments, and in comparison to American English speakers, may compliment one another in conversation less frequently.

When the deflector shields fail, the ship relies upon its damage deflective plating, which enhances standard hull integrity to absorb damage until the deflector shields can be reengaged.

Asked if he could pinpoint the moment in his childhood when he became aware of how the world viewed his father, Mr. Dylan pulled up a screen of deflective wit: "Yeah.