Crossword-Solution: REFLECTIVENESS 14 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 22

When expressed with some amount of reflectiveness it seems co-ordinate with a belief that this flattery must be reasonable to be effective.

Ford,” said Uncle Ben, with abstract reflectiveness, “I sez to the fellers, 'lie low, boys, and you'll see style.' And when you put on them first steps, I sez, 'that's French--the latest high-toned French style--outer the best masters, and--and outer the best books.

German children are not exuberant or volatile: they are serious,--a seriousness, however, not to be confounded with the grave reflectiveness of age, but only the abstract wonderment of childhood; for all those who have made a loving study of the young human animal will, I think, admit that its dominant expression is GRAVITY, and not playfulness, and will be satisfied that he erred pitifully who first ascribed “light-heartedness” and “thoughtlessness” as part of its phenomena.

She was one of those women, and very rare they are, who deal in ideas, and reflectiveness must be self-conscious.

Here nodded the grave, purple-leaved pansies,--legendary consolers of the heart,--their little, quaint, expressive physiognomies turned in every direction; up to the sky, as though absorbing the sunlight,--down to the ground, with an almost severe air of meditation, or curled sideways on their stems in a sort of sly reflectiveness.