All 26 Uses of

reflection

in

Ulysses by James Joyce

So in the future, the sister of the past, I may see myself as I sit here now but by reflection from that which then I shall be.†
Chpt 9

—No, rejoined the other, I appreciate to the full the motives which actuate your conduct and I shall discharge the office you entrust to me consoled by the reflection that, though the errand be one of sorrow, this proof of your confidence sweetens in some measure the bitterness of the cup.†
Chpt 12

She did it up all by herself and what joy was hers when she tried it on then, smiling at the lovely reflection which the mirror gave back to her!†
Chpt 13

Far be it from candour to violate the bedchamber of a respectable lady, the daughter of a gallant major, or to cast the most distant reflections upon her virtue but if he challenges attention there (as it was indeed highly his interest not to have done) then be it so.†
Chpt 14

The face of William Shakespeare, beardless, appears there, rigid in facial paralysis, crowned by the reflection of the reindeer antlered hatrack in the hall.†
Chpt 15

Of course, he subjoined pensively, at the inward reflection of there being more languages to start with than were absolutely necessary, it may be only the southern glamour that surrounds it.†
Chpt 16

—Why, the sailor answered upon reflection upon it, I've circumnavigated a bit since I first joined on.†
Chpt 16

Still to cultivate the acquaintance of someone of no uncommon calibre who could provide food for reflection would amply repay any small.†
Chpt 16

—I propose, our hero eventually suggested after mature reflection while prudently pocketing her photo, as it's rather stuffy here you just come home with me and talk things over.†
Chpt 16

These timely reflections anent the brutes of the field occupied his mind somewhat distracted from Stephen's words while the ship of the street was manoeuvring and Stephen went on about the highly interesting old.†
Chpt 16

But a step in the required direction it was beyond yea or nay and both monetarily and mentally it contained no reflection on his dignity in the smallest and it often turned in uncommonly handy to be handed a cheque at a muchneeded moment when every little helped.†
Chpt 16

What reflection concerning the irregular sequence of dates 1884, 1885, 1886, 1888, 1892, 1893, 1904 did Bloom make before their arrival at their destination?†
Chpt 17

A softer beard: a softer brush if intentionally allowed to remain from shave to shave in its agglutinated lather: a softer skin if unexpectedly encountering female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours: quiet reflections upon the course of the day: a cleaner sensation when awaking after a fresher sleep since matutinal noises, premonitions and perturbations, a clattered milkcan, a postman's double knock, a paper read, reread while lathering, relathering the same spot, a…†
Chpt 17

Moreover, on the free surface of the lake in Stephen's green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented spit, describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by the constancy of its permanence the locus of a somnolent prostrate fish (cf mousewatching cat).†
Chpt 17

Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and…†
Chpt 17

The optical reflection of several inverted volumes improperly arranged and not in the order of their common letters with scintillating titles on the two bookshelves opposite.†
Chpt 17

What reflections occupied his mind during the process of reversion of the inverted volumes?†
Chpt 17

The reflection that, apart from the letter in question, his magnetic face, form and address had been favourably received during the course of the preceding day by a wife (Mrs Josephine Breen, born Josie Powell), a nurse, Miss Callan (Christian name unknown), a maid, Gertrude (Gerty, family name unknown).†
Chpt 17

What were his reflections concerning the last member of this series and late occupant of the bed?†
Chpt 17

Reflections on his vigour (a bounder), corporal proportion (a billsticker), commercial ability (a bester), impressionability (a boaster).†
Chpt 17

With what antagonistic sentiments were his subsequent reflections affected?†
Chpt 17

By what reflections did he, a conscious reactor against the void of incertitude, justify to himself his sentiments?†
Chpt 17

In what final satisfaction did these antagonistic sentiments and reflections, reduced to their simplest forms, converge?†
Chpt 17

The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow.†
Chpt 17

Definition:

(reflection as in: my reflection in the mirror)
an image (seen on a mirror or other shiny surface)