As I passed from mirror to mirror slanted against the house, I could see different parts of me: my shoes and pant cuffs, my belt and the bottom of my shirt, my sudden whole shape in the tall mirror, my swinging hand.

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He must hold up the jeans with one hand in order to avoid tripping over them on his way to the mirror.

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She consulted frequently with her hand mirror, another fixture on the dining-room table, alongside the pristine place settings.

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On the other hand, if this is all too close to home (my own 40th disappeared in the rear view mirror some time ago) we can take comfort in the fact that this research was carried out with civil servants and therefore may well not apply to human beings at all.

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The mirror-less camera, on the other hand is a macroevolution and will become a strapping competitor for the popular standards: the digital SLR (single-lens reflex) camera and the user-friendly point-and-shoot camera.

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Picasso obsessively dated his work, so each piece has a date written in his own hand in a mirror image, since he inscribed it directly onto the lithography stone.

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It was usually as a blurred face at the back of a painting, behind a huge plant, or casually in a hand mirror.

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These so-called "mirror neurons" might have given apes the mental power necessary to recognize subtle differences in hand gestures.

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