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Example sentences for: knee-jerk

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We know that knee-jerk cynicism is as uninteresting as persistent naiveté--although the former is the superior betting strategy if you're playing blackjack in Vegas with Death.
The response to the news that one has been created has been knee-jerk and mocking.
The latter is unearned and knee-jerk: "They're all a bunch of crooks."
Rather than showing real concern for the impact of camera-toting hordes or knee-jerk irreverence, I think the books are dispensing garden-variety flattery, making you feel superior to the next guy on the museum ticket line.
And it's also why Germans should get over the knee-jerk reaction that any foreign takeover necessarily means terrible things for a German company.