19 Metaphors for reactions

A reaction to the English common law is the statute, common in recent years, prohibiting sales in bulk.

When this is the case, reaction is the natural consequence, and thus misunderstandings and complaints ensue.

Her reaction from him was as physical a sensation as though she had bitten into a tempting fruit and found it not sweetnot even bitterbut nasty.

Better, 'in a way that while it deeply troubled her, could not but surprise and vex her to think it should be a source of trouble at all.' "'Reaction' is vile slang.

Hitherto the reaction of the feederthat is, its descent and recessionwas generally attained by means of a spring.

Reaction and excess are the Scylla and Charybdis of its perils.

And their reaction to fear stimuli is a pretty good measure of the ratio.

For an instant she stood so, perfectly still, her great eyes opening wider and wider, opening wonderingly, dazedly, as though the other had done what she fearedand of a sudden returned again to life; then in mocking, ironic reaction came tardy comprehension, and with the strength of a captured wild thing she drew back, broke free.

At the same time, I am far from suggesting that the reaction against the traditional "dramatic" is a wholly mistaken movement.

The reaction is distinctly acid, normally due to free hydrochloric acid.

What a terrible reaction must have been the lot of this old lady, after all the capers she had cut in these passages from her autobiography!

Its reaction is alkaline to litmus paper.

But in each reincarnation, however predetermined every act and event, their reaction upon consciousness remains a matter of determinationis therefore self-determined.

And this, the reaction against the world that is too much with us, is, after all, the keynote of what is most intimately associated with the name of pastoral in literaturethe note that is struck with idyllic sweetness in Theocritus, and, rising to its fullest pitch of lyrical intensity, lends a poignant charm to the work of Tasso and Guarini.

Our own reaction on its monotony would be the one thing experienced there in the form of something coming to pass.

The strong reaction of some early men against the cosmical process by which 'the weakest goes to the wall,' is, indeed, a curious moral phenomenon, and deserves the attention of moralists.

Those of you who are accustomed to the classical constructions of reality may be excused if your first reaction upon it be absolute contempta shrug of the shoulders as if such ideas were unworthy of explicit refutation.

A reaction is always an extreme.

The first reaction of the World War was a great interrogation, and the technical "Peace" that has followed brings only reiteration.

19 Metaphors for  reactions